The Point of Vanishing & Other Dreams

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In my blog, I explore the themes that weave through my stories and dreams:

the need to belong, and the fear of loss; the longing for family and home and love; loneliness and the extraordinary power of the human spirit; depression - and hope; the clarifying presence of the natural world, and ways of being awake and alive in the only moment we really have: this one.

I hope you'll follow me beyond the storytelling, and join me on this very human journey....




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"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde

‘I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams’. ~Vincent Van Gogh

The following little creations are taken from recent dreams, rough hewn and unpolished, mined directly from the unconscious. They are the raw material for future Wishing Tree tales, and they are very, very short .

Saturday 30 May 2015

Books With a Difference #2: Islands


Okay, so here are another couple of books I've read that I think worth mentioning.

The first is The Girl with Glass Feet, by Ali Shaw (winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize)

This has to be one of my favourite books.  Possibly not to everyone's taste, it is a unique blend of magic realism, love story, and painful human relationships which evolve, and then dissolve. 

Saturday 16 May 2015

Books with a Difference #1: Childhood

 
I've decided, from time to time, to review a few books I have read which have made an impression on me for one reason or another.  Many of them have themes that resonate with my own stories; some of them are just plain curiosities.  Usually they will be fiction; occasionally non-fiction.  If you have also read them, or they remind you of something you have read that is similar, or similarly 'different', please comment and let me know.  I'm always looking for more good books! 

Saturday 9 May 2015

I Am the Song: Poem


 

I am the song that sings the bird.
I am the leaf that grows the land.
I am the tide that moves the moon.
I am the stream that halts the sand.
I am the cloud that drives the storm.
I am the earth that lights the sun.
I am the fire that strikes the stone.
I am the clay that shapes the hand.
I am the word that speaks the man.

Charles Causley

Saturday 2 May 2015

There's Something About Trees

 

Trees.

There is just something about trees.

It is no coincidence that most of the stories I have written in my collection The Wishing Tree and Other Dreams features trees in one way or another.  I would have liked to feature a tree as the central character or plot point in every story in this collection, or hidden them as secret symbols, rather like in Where's Wally or The Da Vinci Code, but stories have a way of writing themselves and sometimes they insisted they simply did not have room for a tree.  So that was that.

So, what is it about trees that is so beguiling?