I started this blog 13 years ago today. It remains a transformative experience. There’s a social element to it – this is social media after all. Yet the biggest change is in the head. It’s made putting the output of mental activity into words a common practice. Which in turn makes you self aware of … Continue reading 13th year blogging →
I’ve made it a habit to write at least 106 words every day. Usually before dawn. I started on 24th December 2019. As of this writing, I’ve managed to spit out 7935 words in the last 37 days. There are a few rules. Avoid padding the word count. Short sentences. Simple words. Thoughts focused towards … Continue reading Writing 106 Words daily →
Handwriting made up of scratchy lines pop into crisp shapes. It doesn’t matter that years of keyboarding has rendered penmanship to scrawl. Reading text on paper has stopped being a strain. The annoyance of frozen text size is gone. The relief has a feel of a long drink of water on a hot day. By … Continue reading Seeing clearly →
The deeper message in the Icarus myth is ignored because it’s a powerful social control tool. It applies to you, me and all the other humans on this ball of rock going around the sun. The common understanding of “don’t fly too high” demands conformity. Makes virtues out of being “average”, celebrates giving up, and … Continue reading Icarus Myth : it applies to you →
I’m over halfway into close reading two fascinating books. ‘Close’ means ‘slow’ reading. With highlighting, notes, comments. Asides into looking up references of cited texts. Wikipediaing , Googling other works and backgrounds of cited authors. In the wings are the next two books. Evaluated by close reading a quarter of the way in to confirm … Continue reading Surprise gift →
Social media manipulation plans for promoting Fascism as a “cure” to Sr Lanka’s democracy has been leaked online. The right wing group behind it remains defiant. :: DDN exclusive.
This blog is my only social media output. Its purpose: flush words out of my head. All the others eg twitter were dopamine hits. Vampiring the ultimate non renewing resource:time. Killing that vampire was easy. Just as delete the apps. This is different from a “social media fast“. It has the finality of giving up … Continue reading Deleting social media →
My extended family culture deemed higher education as essential. Us kids were drilled with the conviction that an undergraduate university degree was a ‘basic’ requirement for life. Women were not exempt. We were surrounded by graduate/post graduate aunts in various fields. Somewhere was a female grand relative with an international degree. Women who married without … Continue reading Educated Privilege ...
The current painting is going no where. So some of the voices in my head moan from their cushions. True. There are layers and layers of paint and oil pastel and gel medium. A casualty of being the Sunday painter. As well as peckings during the the one spare on a week night. Yet all … Continue reading Stiring the painting →
Write at any moment. Wherever you are. Even for a few seconds at a time. Use the time windows between the demands of life to move words out of your head. One sentence at a time. Piling your sentences into complete pieces of writing. Let the result make you happy. It’s what Nibble Writing’s about. … Continue reading Tools For Writing Anywhere Anytime →
The easter bombings hit me in unexpected ways. I don’t understand how or why. This post is the first act of steadying myself. Hoping to sniff out some nuggets of awareness. On the outside I am ‘lucky’. No one I know was hurt, killed or affected. So writing was the first casualty. The evil of … Continue reading Easter attacks recovery post →
Humans have many rituals to keep their nostrils out of the water. Many of these critical rituals are internalised to the point of invisibility. This post puts one such ritual in context.
I hit publish on my first blog post twelve years ago today. It’s a blog anniversary bringing up the usual question: why blog ‘in this day and age’? The answer remains ‘because I have to’. This post attempts to explain why.