April 18, 2018 - Winner On The Dance Floor
Billy Elliot danced towards his dream, despite poverty, oppression, bullying and male stereotyping.
Stories
April 13, 2018 - Army of Ink Here Comes Repair
Here comes repair .
This little soldier left behind the security of her blanket to step forth into the reasonably unknown realm of repair. As she did, she cast a small wish into the universe that others might follow too…
(Reposted from 2011. Find her in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
April 10, 2018 - Wisdoms of Rose Holding On
Rose was accustomed to more – but settle for one none-the-less.
Rose finds decision making difficult, so she limits her choices to alleviate herself from the tiresome chore of selection. The fact that this leaves her with very little, is of no great loss to Rose – she has (and is), enough. Long Live Rose.
Footnote: The virtue of being small is not one of popularity, but in a world that’s constantly promoting big, and potentially making us feel more insignificant, we have to champion a little harder for the small stuff. And with consumerism and mass media constantly knocking, our lives can potentially become a merry-go-round of decision making. Even if it’s the conscious decision not to buy into it. This Rose seems aware of the trappings of ‘wanting more’ yet holds firmly onto her single cone. She settles for less and feels so much more for it.
(Wisdoms of Rose and Clunk & Jam, 2019 books. Reposted from 2013).
April 1, 2018 - Army of Ink Enough
Will I Ever Be Enough .
Completely fed up with this notion of ‘enough’, she tipped herself to one side and wondered…..who is the great measurer of ‘enough’ anyway? The holy dispenser of self worth? The one who’ll grant her the fickle and often self defeating wish to be something more. And what does ‘enough’ look like? Feel like? Think like? Or could it simply be a matter of knowing when to, “Say when” – when you’re fed up with overwhelming expectation. Feeling not quite bright enough to work all this out further contributed to her sense of worthlessness and despair, so she put her ‘boots too hard to fill’ away and cried out loud: “Enough is enough!”
From this declaration erupted an abundant supply of pride and joy and the realisation that there were countless number of things to make her enough already – problem was, they were impossible to measure. And so…..in a supreme moment of co-ordination, she gave the troublesome measuring stick a long ride on a firm new shoe – sending it far beyond the world too big. This metaphorical act of giving the stick the flick also served to remove the load of personal expectation from her weary shoulders long enough to feel ‘enough’….and break the habit of wanting to be ‘superfied’.
(Reposted from 2012. Find her in ‘Clunk & Jam’ book.)
March 11, 2018 - Army of Ink Small Wonders
The Peacemakers Plot .
Black peacemakers of inner conflict emerge from the depth of innocent souls. Standing firmly in experience. Boots too big, tripping up lies so old Delivering poignant punches of universal truth that swell much bigger than the silence. Inky stamps of self approval, forever fixed in soft white sheets. Together we rise – a revolution of self.
(See also, ‘Once Upon A Dark Time‘. In Clunk & Jam book, 2019. Reposted from 2010)
February 21, 2018 - Army of Ink On A String
Held On A String .
I stretch to forever with the very tips of my fingers. Way up high to a place where everything falls away. Just me and nothing. Nothing and me. Then I let go. Fell into a place much harder than my story. It hurt. Not from the fall. From landing in things I didn’t know were still there. Now my fingers ache for the place where everything falls away. I fight to soothe fiddling fingers still. Lock them in lap. Far less than the place they long for. Much more for being held in a place I believe I have a chance to hold.
(Reposted from 2010. About addiction maybe?)