I know someone who was good at ideas and dreams. A larger-than-life person with huge energy and vision to match. Many things simply wouldn’t have started without him. However, he wasn’t a great thinker and therefore some of his initiatives got into difficulty because they hadn’t been sufficiently thought through. Conversely, I tend to overthink. […]
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. T. E. Lawrence, in Seven […]
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Do you dream? Sleeping dreams and waking dreams are both visual. Our ‘seeing’ is real and infused with emotion and memory. But I’ve been wondering about their origins and what they do to, and for us. Sleeping dreams seem to be the way our inner being processes what we’ve been exposed to. A kind of […]
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We shy away from looking in the mirror because we’re afraid of what we might see. But what if we don’t have to settle for a caricature?
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What would we see if we looked through the eyes of another? Maybe we would recognise some answers to our own questions. Reframing what we think we know… and don’t know. Perhaps their gaze would fall on things we wouldn’t normally notice. And disturb our sense of order, or of how the world works. Certainly, […]
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Our friend, the artist Ruth Dent has been spending a few days with us here in the valley. The weather has been glorious and the light amazing for February in Wales. Last night we used the big screen to view photographs she had taken during the day. They were stunning. Places in the woods, brooks […]
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