To ‘travel light’- to travel with very little luggage (British English) or baggage (American English). The other useful words, phrases and expressions are in bold so as you read the story you can try to guess what they mean before ‘all is revealed’ (if you choose to then check the meanings) . A general …
Travelling Light (alt. version): A travel story with English idioms and expressions Read More »
This is not going to be an exhaustive look at Nick Drake but a general chronology of his short life, with some analysis of his music and lyrics and thoughts on what may have caused the dramatic downward spiral of 3-4 years that turned a relatively happy young man with enormous talent, good looks and …
‘ …and out of the years of befuddlement, insufficient rest and worrisome thoughts came a moment of calm clarity. He’d always reasoned that God must have put the truth and the path to mental freedom far away so as to test him and make the discovery of it a long-drawn-out struggle, a life’s work. In …
(written in 2015) I’ve recently had the good fortune to become part of the musical community of Madrid and to encounter a group of fun, interesting and creative people. Like me, they appear to be curious, sensitive, restless and occasionally troubled souls, searching for the elusive and using performance as a way to simultaneously attempt …
Creativity, Communal Experience and Mental Health Read More »
In my twisted mind, I wonder how much the general public could be persuaded to buy things that they don’t need. Following on from my post about advertising, I’m reminded of an experiment I saw conducted by a local shopkeeper, who was a rather eccentric chap and clearly a free thinker. We’ve all seen the …
Cynical? Realistic? Positive? Naive? Though individual experiences and attitudes inevitably vary between individuals, it is thought that around the age of 45, our cynicism starts to grow. This creates great material for satire, but is it a positive or negative development?? ‘Cynical’ is a word which creates a trigger that screams of negativity as soon …