What Actors Know, Self-With-Others & Other Writings
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The power of connection
The third ‘domain’ in Self-With-Others I’m offering a free introduction to Self-With-Others, an way of living in connection in an interconnected world. It takes the form of 14 emails — two per week sent over 7 weeks. Self With Others is based on exploring three different domains of human experience simultaneously: our inner universe, the…
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Planting a tree
Yesterday was glorious warm and sunny in Ireland. I planted an oak tree. It’s thigh-high with seven large leaves. I put it near another young oak I planted 18 months ago. It’s even smaller, barely to my knees, but thriving. I hope they’ll meet beneath the ground and be good friends. I fenced the new…
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Restlessness
The dark side of the imagination I’ve always been restless. It’s served me well much of the time. I don’t accept things because ‘that’s how they are’. I don’t accept ‘that’s how I am’ either. I ask ‘why?’ I ask ‘what about?’ (of myself and of the world). I wonder, mull and imagine different. Imagination…
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In fear, calm
Yesterday I had an angiogram. It’s a strange procedure. A tube is stuck into the vein in the wrist, pushed up the arm and across the chest. It connects with the heart. A large, white, sci-fi looking camera/x-ray manouvres across my chest — remotely controlled. There’s a large TV screen to my left dotted with…
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The Joy of being Left Alone
See that small mark? It’s almost nothing. I’d miss it if I wasn’t looking. Two days ago it was the focus of everything. Through that small hole, a tube was inserted. Through the tube, dye was injected into my heart. I lay beneath a huge camera which revealed the deepest workings of my physical being.…
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Spring Arrives Suddenly
… but ‘sudden’ is an illusion…… Photo by Casper van Battum on Unsplash Spring arrives suddenly. I walk the wild of my garden, amid young trees that one day will be a forest if left enough alone. They’re beech trees. The deep brown leaves of last year cling on through the winter, clothing them in…
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The Interconnected Self
From very early in life we’re taught to live a lie. I call it the myth of The Isolated Self. We’re taught to believe we’re separate from other people, nature, the world, even from those closest to us. Writer Charles Eisenstein calls it ‘the myth of separation’. Like all myths, it contains some truth. We’re…
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Don’t believe feedback
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Life’s an improvisation
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I talk to my car
He makes me a better person. I talk to my car. Doing so makes me a better person. I also talk to my cooker, paintbrushes and washing machine. Sometimes I talk to the gravel on the drive, but I admit I worry the neighbours might hear. My relationship with things I talk to is real.…