Once upon a time, when I lived in Australia, I began to write some children’s books – for ages 5-8….and those who read with them. The first that came out (a good 3years ago) was "A Message To Send"* You can keep reading on for more about the story, and the backstory  OR if you simply can’t [...]

Nothing new – again. This post is about reminding myself/us what we, and the ancient humans, already knew/know – visuals are KEY! I have been musing on using visuals to explain my work – hand drawn, digital, photos, comic…whatever. In part because visuals tell stories that skip to our right brain – safely sidestepping away from [...]

Wishing each of you time for rest and reflection! Image: Rest (c) Marc Chagall 1975 

"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. … The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." [...]

"The alphabet, independent of the spoken languages it transcribes, or the information it makes available, has its own intrinsic impacts." – Robert Logan, The Alphabet Effect  [more on the alphabet effect found here] I read this line while reading The Alphabet vs The Goddess this morning I am again entranced in wonder, what might these intrinsic impacts [...]

I once read English is a language with confused roots, and in the context of today, English (and languages the world over) seem to be going through an interesting phase given the global adoption of words, borrowed from here and there and made to mean things almost, but not quite, like what they mean in their [...]

"Muddy water, let stand – becomes clear" – Lao Tzu In an earlier post I discussed wading through the sea of confusion as a necessary step for clarity to emerge. Today I was passed onto a beautiful word "Clarts". "Clarts means mud. It is English not alice in wonderlandish, dialect from Northumberland, the most northerly county in England [...]

"Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merily Life is but a dream." It seems so obvious, this little ditty we sung growing up – but until I was sent it in an email today by Paul, I didn’t concentrate on the words at all. Go on – go back and [...]

One of the things I love about NY is the public art – it is everywhere! Below are two of my favourite projects as the (solarly constructed calendar) year rounds up 1. The Bubble Project A counter-attack to our overly advertised and branded world, artist Ji Lee set about sticking 15,000 empty speech bubbles all around the city (and he [...]

Think about it: 24 little signs can be rearranged into everything and anything! "But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than [...]