Month: November 2013

“It’s never about the thing that it’s about.”

You’d think that being a writer is all about two things:1. Writing stuff.2. Getting that written stuff published or at least read.However, there’s much more to it than that and I’ll warn you in advance that I may get arty and soulful. To begin with, it’s a helluva thing to even consider calling yourself a …

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Peace

“Peace is a decision, a process, a journey, a commitment. It comes from the desire for stillness within and balance without. It requires vision, to see what can be and not be trapped in what has been. We always live in the shadow of those generations who came before us, as beneficiaries of their struggles, their generosity …

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Living with PTSD – a UK exhibition

Creativity serves many purposes. It can take us on journeys of the imagination, enable us to present new and interesting ideas to others, and even allow us to begin to heal. My friend, Villayat ‘SnowMoon Wolf’ Sunkmanitu, uses photography and poetry as a coping mechanism for living with PTSD and also as a way of raising …

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