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July 19, 2019 - Special You

(Original music by Radiohead) .  Believe in the possible.

December 1, 2018 - Young Insight

This is Impossible – So Let’s Get Started.

Below is an excerpt from a student’s exploration of the book, ‘Clunk & Jam’,  for an English assignment.  Thank you RB for choosing Clunk & Jam to review and the personal insights you’ve written about and kindly (bravely) shared …

‘The Super Hero series stems from Browne always having had a strong social conscience and being very sensitive – particularly to the suffering of others, or bad things happening.  There was a part of her that wanted to save the world (the child/teenage) – knowing full well she couldn’t (the adult self).  “I was one of those kids who felt really responsible for people around me and what was happening.  And then I had experiences where no-one showed up for me, so I lost faith in the notion of real life Super Heroes.” 

November 17, 2018 - Bending Spoons

Song line from track ‘The Great Beyond’ by Michael Stipe (REM).  The song was written to reflect the work and philosophy of  film maker Andy Kaufman which is …. 

“To keep creating you have to push forward, go beyond, attempt the impossible, in life as in art.”   

October 30, 2018 - Tread Carefully In Mind

(Reposted from 2008).  You will Find Relief here.

In relation to the diagnosis of ‘depression’ and the feeling of being ‘depressed’ … I’m uncertain how much of what I’m experiencing are normal feelings and how much is due to a chemical imbalance in the brain?   How much of how I’m feeling and experiencing is influenced by past trauma and bad experiences.   Circumstance and environment?  Belief and perception?While having a diagnosis of depression, anxiety disorder, PTSD and other conditions of mind can help make sense of things and provide a guide for treatment and medication (if necessary).  Giving it significance beyond that can further darken our world.  It can lead to the perception that, ‘something is wrong with us’.  A perception by ourselves and others that we’re weak or flawed.   And it can be the entry point into the isolation of social stigma and shame associated with ‘mental illness’.

(Art Harley Manifold, original in colour).

It has been helpful to separate myself from the diagnosis.   To work out not, ‘what is wrong with me’, but ‘what’s not right’?  

What remains are giant and often unmanageable feelings.  A cocktail of emotion.   Anger and rage in the mix with sadness, hopelessness and despair.  Fear.  Panic without a cause.  Sensitivity or intolerance to light, noise, stress – people.  The world around me.  Places I can no longer go. Unrelenting critical head talk.  Crippling self doubt.  Dominant dark thoughts.    Sometimes unbearably intense – other times, blunted.  A feeling of nothing.

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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.)

August 16, 2016 - Inner City Poet

A story about a lost star – refreshing in this age of celebrity. From the makers of another brilliant documentary,  ‘Man of Wire’ about the French tightrope walker who strings a wire between the Twin Tower buildings in New York and does the impossible.