“The universe is not outside of you Look inside Yourself, everything that you want you already are”. Rumi This realisation resonates with the calling I have felt for years, ever […]
The Glass bead game and the Goblin king
As always, I am sat, happily within a chaos of structure and creativity. Last week I managed to have a small but significant dream realised. ‘The table of consciousness’ played […]
To become the Scar
The Nietzschean ‘Void’ is haunting me today. As it’s mixed with many other spaces, feelings, senses and cognitive chains. The pain of Kierkegaard, the truths of Schopenhauer, the multiple deaths […]
The heartbeat of Montmartre
When I was around 16 years old my parents took me to Montmartre. I remember it all very vividly and for me, with my echo chamber of a nothingness mind, […]
Does that make me crazy?
I often feel I might be mad. I try to work and live my life as an effective, empathic, caring, knowledgeable, wise nurse, parent, partner and friend, but there are times when […]
To brace the weight, you must have hope.
I am Tom, I am a male nurse, I am a poet, and I am often lost. During my masters at Canterbury Christ Church University, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia. […]
The patron and the colour Blue
On the eve of developing the final installation on my amazing and challenging doctoral journey. The bridge I find myself at now is that of putting together the final links. […]
The Trinity born again,
Recently I have had the wonderful chance to refine, rethink and present another small arts project. This one is called ‘the hermit to the trinity’ and is the central themes […]
Wisdom and stillness
Sidhartha or Vasudeva? What do we mean when we use words like potential, value, purpose, creative and individual? Where are the spaces of freedom for those who know the realities […]
Get out of Jail Free Card
So just imagine for a second that society was a conscious prison of oppression. A place where alternatives were quietly but actively oppressed. Where control was centrally driven through fear […]