In the quiet expanse of my mind, I find myself drawn to the image of a gardener tending to a vast landscape of diamonds nestled in the darkness of the […]
The Evolution of Trauma Consciousness
Attending ‘The Evolution of Consciousness’: Dr Derek Tracy KMMS Talk was just an activity probably based on the intrigue of the title but… Have we evolved in our consciousness? Prehistoric […]
A happy death
It is easy now; the festival has passed and was a tremendous success. The space was only there as a research pilot. What it became was nothing short of a […]
The mind of the Hermitic or Eremitic.
“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. […]