Infinitely Distracting

The river's way 11.01.2025 5:25 ↓

One thing leads to another, always it does. We cannot avoid that or detain it in any way.

Come of age 04.01.2025 8:20 ↓

Things lost and found, kept and unkept, kempt and unkempt, disregarded and discarded. There's no stopping time, no time to look behind. This episode comes with a song, "Saving grace" from the album, "Sea-shanties for Landlubbers" (2004). (Image of a Toowoomba sunset)

Splendid is the night 28.12.2024 6:16 ↓

The Polaroid clicks and then spits out a blue grey square of captured moment.

Down, deep down 21.12.2024 5:28 ↓

It sure is dark down there, but this is where one wants to go, so, … one must go on.

Where everyone else is 14.12.2024 5:04 ↓

Is that where you want to be?

Who's on the door? 06.12.2024 6:27 ↓

By the time she gets to the bottom of the stairs a light evening shower has sprinkled magic in the streets and all over town, releasing the perfume of freshly crushed rain. On

The show must go on 30.11.2024 8:31 ↓

And here we are. Chapter 100. Cause for celebration. A feat of resilience, example of endurance, a grand folly, one could think.

Early days yet 23.11.2024 6:00 ↓

Soon, very soon, chapter one hundred. Ah, but these are merely numbers. Days come and go. Surely, it’s what we do with them that counts.

Just a step away 16.11.2024 4:31 ↓

There is no indication of what lies … ahead, just a step or two away.

Handle with care 09.11.2024 5:58 ↓

The current protagonist is released into the outside world, there in all its glaring and glorious splendour. (Image: Photo of wall detail in Gaudí's Casa Vicens, Barcelona, 1885)

Deadpan comic endeavour 02.11.2024 6:13 ↓

The title says it all, really. Where would we be without a touch of humour. Where? (Image: Photo of wall detail in Gaudí's Casa Vicens, Barcelona, 1885)

On heat 26.10.2024 7:40 ↓

Something about animals, in particular, a dog, what it (does't) think and does. Ending with a song, "Animal" from the album "Moving Along", 2006. For your listening pleasure.

Who's gonna feed the dog 19.10.2024 7:31 ↓

Who rocks the boat, who pulls the strings, unleashes the dragons, and makes the butterfly wings. (Song from "Sea-shanties for Landlubbers")

Contemplating the navel and other parts 12.10.2024 9:02 ↓

Taking stock can never be a bad thing.

Give me another shot 05.10.2024 5:35 ↓

You never can get enough … of a good thing.

The most innocent of non-embraces 28.09.2024 5:29 ↓

It must be this that does the healing.

Swept sideways on the river’s flow 21.09.2024 7:15 ↓

There is a pulsing now like of the navigation light on the West End ferry as it chugs to and fro across the river, swept sideways on the river flow, trailing its wake, navigation light winking, dusk settling over city in a pink dome … of unhealthy air.

Burst with glee 13.09.2024 7:28 ↓

This is what happens when you let the mind wander, leaving the body temporarily … unattended.

So much for precision 07.09.2024 4:51 ↓

So much for precision. Fluency is my goal. Accuracy is out.

Full sail towards the unknown 31.08.2024 6:33 ↓

Things don’t always go as planned, do they. But what is a plan worth in any case.

Another kind of life 24.08.2024 4:59 ↓

Dealing with hard things found underground.

Petite part-time punk 17.08.2024 7:43 ↓

Work-life balancing act. Momentarily nostalgic and yearning some long-lost thing that maybe they never had.

Immersion in song 10.08.2024 6:56 ↓

They have the radio on at work and that can help. Music can change the panorama as it slips by, enhance it in some way, a strum or drum beat taking the place of the tick of a clock, adding emotional edge, the soundtrack for the movie you are in.

Discover what this new day holds 03.08.2024 4:51 ↓

To build something new, you often have to destroy something old.

So effortlessly miraculous 27.07.2024 4:27 ↓

You are always right, even when being right is clearly wrong and leads to nothing but further chaos and perhaps distress.