To paint with no pint

Eight hundred and fifty. That’s the number of days since I stopped drinking alcohol. Fittingly, today is also the end of January - a month where many people decide to...

Untethering oneself: consciousness

Writing is something that I enjoy doing, but, like many things that bring joy, I often need to dig deep to find the motivation to write when I don’t feel...

Feet first

When we’re born, we’re given a pair of feet that are remarkably complex and that have evolved to allow us to do things that distinguish us from our fellow apes....

Irreversible inertia?

I’m currently reading a book called Waypoints by Robert Martineau. It’s about his pilgrimage on the West African coast, one he decided to take as he was afraid of falling...

Living and learning

This is the second post discussing some of my reflections from reading the book ‘Can the mind be quiet? - Living, Learning and Meditation’ by J. Krishnamurti. In the first...

Sorry Strava

Last month, I came off Strava. It was the last man standing for a while. The only social media platform that I was still on, if you ignore my YouTube...