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Duster - Stratosphere

Hey music blog! Its been a while... nearly 3 years in fact.  I have now departed my early twenties and already landed into the middle of them. My music taste is similar but with more depth, my vinyl collection has grown, and my view is more whole worldly. I am now a poet openly not just in secret. I am still not depressed again yet. my mind is far too full for that anyway.  My body is sick, its asking me for a break. I live in Hackney and the blinds are drawn, but that doesnt matter as its always grey out there anyways. I have several lights on and my alarm clock keeps disconnecting. It's 13:11 and both my mugs are cold. Time to listen to Duster ~~~ SIDE A ~~~ Moon aGe the intro drums are elequont and open a new dimension with such twinkling synthiness on top. I feel glossy, glassy, like I am the reflection looking back to the real thing. Heading for the Door theres a consistency and purpose in the direction here. theres no need for any thought for all we move with is habitual...

UNFCCC SB60: A Climate Change Pit-Stop in Bonn

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Trip to Bonn + SB60 June 1st-5th 2024: Day -1, Samstag 1st Juni: Opening Mindset + Expectations Leaving London early on a sunny Saturday morning, I was full of the usual introspective apprehension that has become typical for these voluntary conferences. Once or twice, phrases of "Am I really choosing to spend my holiday on this?" and "Will my efforts over the next days be worth it?" run through my head.  My EYE friend Laurens in a 15 minute Brussels interlude It is a bizarre experience, travelling in self-funded capacity to some foreign location, spending the minimal free-time of my twenties at a conference which many negotiators call "work trips". Of course there is an ambiguous nervousness coming to mind. With recent memories of a fairly traumatic indulgence of my sometimes obsessive work drive while following the GST for YOUNGO in Dubai, I feel I am subconsciously resisting much real excitement about my time in Bonn.  However, what I was conscious of w...

UNDULATING - JNKO Life Review - May 2023

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        Undulating It represents the shade of brown here, #ac6735 ~~~ Can you best detect, identify and ride the undulations this life induces upon you? ~~~ Once again I find myself returning to this page more than half a year older, far busier and ever so more in need of reflection. Life has come at a rateand with a difficult winter defeated, I am energised by the warmth sun brings to skin today, the first of May. Having just moved to Park Grange Mount back in Sheffield at the last post, I am now living at Batman Close in London - something I certainly didnt foresee at the last post.  Life is more electric  - the way of current flowing through my wired body as I am reaching my peak potential of effectiveness (or so I think, once again!) - the charged emotions running like waves across me - my awareness of this surfacing, but not mastered - the potential difference that sees me through lonely nights and overstimulated days - how I grasp for mindfulness...