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Home Truths | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Alex Giannini and Karl Svensson had been seconded to a different precinct for a while, to make up the numbers for a flu-ridden department, so they already felt unfamiliar with the upmarket area. To make it worse, their temporary boss had demanded that they ‘smarten up! Stop fidgeting. You’re like a kid on his first day at school,’ said Karl. The middle-aged woman who opened the door was disheveled and distressed. ‘What’s happened? You firs...

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Doodling dogs while Rome burns… | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Doodling dogs while Rome burns…. December 1, 2016. Sleeping the sleep of the innocent. Knit up the ravelled sleeve…. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. A Blog a...

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Too much education is bad for you? | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Too much education is bad for you? October 11, 2016. Appeared today. It made me think…. Let’s assume higher education is a private good (an assumption common among those who believe everything is a private good), to be paid for privately. It is worth paying for, because higher education leads to higher future income, they say, and of course income is what matters, because more money equates to more things, more security, more freedom.

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Exhibition: Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain, London | Be Afraid of the Woolf

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Be Afraid of the Woolf. Exhibition: Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain, London. So according to my leaflet here, Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) has made some of the most resonant and inventive paintings of recent times, of people and of the urban landscapes near his studio in Mornington Crescent. I’m afraid vague and vaporous Latinate words such as resonant and inventive don’t quite cover his work I’d like to use a stronger, Anglo-Saxon word, like meaty . That’s a good word. EOW, Half-length Nude, 1958. I find tha...

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The Patient Man | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. By the time the sun was setting he had settled himself and his few belongings comfortably into the bothy. He lay looking out towards the glowing western sky, and sleep rose up to claim his weariness. The locals soon became aware that someone was staying on the island. Rumours trickled along the narrow roads. Dour old men shook their heads and looked for reasons to disapprove. ‘Who is he? What’s he doing here? What are we going to do? That ...

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September | 2016 | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. September 15, 2016. Some blogs I follow. Blog at WordPress.com. If more people had hearts like yours the world would be a better place. Automattician, Green, humanist, vegan. English country gardens cumbria. Garden design and build. Gardens, gardening and related items of interest. The apocalypse: open plan living on a budget. Things I learn from the dark. Ideas for a new age. Visit with painter and photographer Terrill Welch.

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flissw | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Just a drawing or three. March 10, 2017. March 6, 2017. But another smiles and says, ‘Don’t forget the other solution.’. 8216;What’s that? 8216;Downsizing.’. 8216;Fewer people means less destruction of ecosystems and fewer poor people means less inequality. Just what those crazy greens want. If we didn’t have to support so many poor people the world would be much better off.’. 8216;But what about the gruntwork they do? March 4, 2017. 8211;...

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Disillusionment | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Mary found the letter at the bottom of the ‘dressing-up’ box, sticking out from the lining. The envelope was still drily stuck down but it seemed eager to open as she pulled it out. She knew she had no right to read it but she couldn’t resist. Jimmy I’m writing this for you to read after I’ve gone. It won’t be long now and I want to explain things. It doesn’t seem possible for us to talk about important things any more. You were so full of...

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knit up the ravelled sleeve… | ideas melt like snow

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Ideas melt like snow. Short fiction, poetry, musings, visual art. Knit up the ravelled sleeve…. November 11, 2016. This blog has gone quiet of late because any creative impulse has been smothered by ongoing larger events. It is hard to see a point in writing or art when huge and horrible forces seem to be growing in the world, when bigotry and xenophobia and misogyny seem to be thriving, and when the human assault on the planet goes on apace however many pledges nations make. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.