February 8, 2015 - Someone To Look Up To
Once upon a time in a desert in the west, a Little Girl Giant fell from the sky into one of those communities in love with the stars, the earth, the trees, the water …Story
Stories
February 3, 2015 - Army of Ink Beauty Is Awake
Beauty Is Awake .
Some places were so dark she didn’t want to go there. But once she’d looked under the bed – she didn’t have to sleep in the middle anymore.
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, and along came a spider and she said; “Here. Pull up a seat.” For beauty is awake you see, to the stories they spin so she can’t break free. So now she sits in itsy, bitsy fright, dreaming sweet dreams in day and in night.
Find her in Clunk & Jam book.
December 6, 2014 - Army of Ink – Bags The Back Seat
Bags The Back Seat .
I like it up the back. Where I can see without them looking. Explore heads and collars. The strings of puppets. Sit unfrozen in a seat unworn. Read the whispers. Tip toe away when I want to go home.
(Originally from ‘Rock The Boat’ series. Now in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
November 24, 2014 - Sing Into A Spoon
When I was a little girl I played hide and seek and got lost. Now I’ve found myself again I want to stand on a box and sing into a spoon. Peer into draws not meant to be opened. Draw and scribble and make mistakes. Catch bubbles before they break. Do loud burps. Swing on the clothes line. Lick my fingers and stay up late. Undress hibiscus flowers. Pull funny faces. Throw sand. Stay forever in a hug. Smell everything. Jackets and boots. Hair and skin. Wear bare feet. Watch people, even when they’re looking. Hang upside down on the monkey bars. Make a mess. Squat on rocks and spot crabs in the cracks. Giggle and snort. Do handstands and cartwheels. Play dress ups. Be naughty and cheeky and silly. Run really, really fast and have big soft sand to fall into.
(Picture of Mum as a little girl. Originally in ‘Rock The Boat’ handmade book, now in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
November 17, 2014 - Army of Ink Key Turn
Sometimes she felt like a wind-up toy that’s lost its key .
Footnote: This ink arrived after a friend of mine told me this was how she was feeling. When I sent her the little girl she asked why the key was part of her head – and why so big? Maybe she’s showing us that the key’s actually been there all along. Perhaps she just lost sight of her own ability to get herself going again? Turn key not lost at all – just run down. Or she’s become unraveled by certain circumstances. The key to getting going again might be in questioning (and in future, avoiding) what initiated her current unraveled state? Well worth some further thought (as her large thinking cap might suggest).
(Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
October 9, 2014 - Canned Kindness
“KINDNESS has no sell-by date. It doesn’t have to be packaged, perfumed or prettified. It is just the most magnificent expression of all that makes us whole and human. Only the KIND should be listened to in our world.” John Bird, Author and Editor, The Big Issue UK. Image from A Revolution of Kindess book by Anita Roddick.
(Reposted from 2009)