Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you […]

Life Philosophy
About Trying
24th September 2021

We face two choices in this life: trying or not trying. I almost wrote, trying or giving up, except that not all ‘not trying’ is giving up. Sometimes it isn’t worth the risk, sometimes we don’t have the time or energy. So instead it’s about the choices. There’s a scene in Batman Begins between Wayne […]

Exercise/Health/Food
Christmas Eve Fast
24th December 2017

(today I fasted for gratitude and empathy) Today – Christmas Eve, as I write this – I’ve decided to fast. Drinking is allowed, but only if it has no calories – so that’s tea and water for me – and I decided coffee would be cheating a bit too. No food all day though. Actually, […]

'Politics'

‘The world won’t get no better/If we just let it be/nana na naa naa na naa naa‘ – Wu Tang Clan ‘Where is the love, the love, the love‘ – Black Eyed Peas I came across the phrase Love and Rage sometime in the middle of 2016. It turns out it’s been a phrase used […]

'Politics'
Despair
29th October 2015

So… in this backdrop of terrible stuff going on, I find myself with some despair. Big problems in the world, and as an individual I feel powerless. It’s a bit tricky to find much meaning in the normal life, in what society tells you to do (study well, get a good job, have a family, don’t worry about these issues because they stop you being happy), knowing this is going on. Hence despair.

Life Philosophy
Why I Write
20th September 2015

 

In which I write about my reasons for and approach to writing. Meta, I know. Also slightly funny as I haven’t actually published anything else in 2015, and this is the first post in my restarted blogging.

Exercise/Health/Food
Take the Stairs!
3rd September 2014

“some quote about humans being meant to move” – many people in the fitness industry, evolutionary biologists, paleoanthropologists, etc.  Exercise is good for you, right? (If you aren’t in agreement so far, then probably stop reading now. That’s kind of an underlying premise of this whole post.) The way we view ‘exercise’ in our society […]