I Want To Be – Not yet certain

Flash Fiction

Fiction

Amy Yin – Dancing, dreaming and dying

His Five Aspects of Self – Ecological, Interpersonal, Narrative/Extended, Private, Conceptual

In The City – Choking on the dust

Love Beyond A Box – A tale of two realities

The Journey There – And the rhythm…

The Streets – Are not paved with gold

Nonfiction

A Handful of Words – For your amusement

Aftermath of the UK Election – Recognising the challenges ahead

Change Will Keep Coming For You – But you can be ready for it

Choices – Driven by experience or expediency

Comfit Comforts – The sweetness of a black tongue

Coming Up For Breath – Fresh perspectives are a bonus

Dear Bullies – Open letter to the bullies I have had in my life

Embracing Retirement – And continuing on with that chapter in life

From Looking to Listening – Flapping my ears for text

Generosity and Kindness – Creating contentment all around

Getting It Right – And making it work well for you

Glaikit – Or embracing the slow life

How To Make Sure Things Get Done – Despite the distractions

How To Make Your Fish Ride A Bicycle – When all it wants to do is climb ladders

I Will Be Right Back – After my summer break

In My Garden There Is A Tree – Full of red berries

Island of Silence – Tranquil existence

Living In The UK – Week beginning 3 June 2024

Look After Yourself – Don’t just read about it or think about it

Making Fun of The Self – On talking whilst alone

Managing Energy – Incorporating all kinds of days

Moving Forward – And feeling very positive

My Sunday – With shadows of the past

Nine-and-Three Quarters Things I Do Every Day – What else am I to do?

Notes From Dispatches – ‘Welcome Week’

Passion In Our Ordinary Lives – Wherever we are in 2025

Pondering Life – And how it relates to ongoing reading and writing in 2024

Procrastination Busting – How to break the dam we have built

Red Armchair – Existing as a magic portal

Renewed, Refreshed, Replenished – Leaving summer break behind

Repetition – To follow or not to follow?

Ruby’s Prompts 2024 Week One Prompt one — ‘Read or Die’

Seneca, Asthma and Me – Making a connection over the centuries

Ten Ways Not To Write Listicles – Excitement does not wait within

That Was The Week – 13 January 2025

That Was The Week – Beginning 11 November 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning 18 November 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning 28 October 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning 4 November 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning on 15 April 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning on 22 April 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning on 7 October 2024

That Was The Week – Beginning on 9 September 2024

The Value of Ignorance – And how it enriches my life

The Wide Blue Ocean – Contained within a Bic pen

Things I Cared About – With tongue in cheek

Thinking About Writing for Wellbeing – And what it means to me

Walking in Bristol (UK) – And finding carvings from trees in Purdown

Writing for Wellbeing – Helps me become a better human

Writing for Wellbeing – I take a step forward this week

Poetry

After ‘96 Vandam’ by Gerald Stern – Three attempts

An A-Z of Equality – Equal rights and equality of opportunity is everything

Animal – First poem about the self

Aqua – Delightful droplets

Arrival – Arrival is now

Arriving Slowly – From the legacy of damp

Balanced Tulip Glass – Water continues on

Balancing – Light and dark

Brave Little Heart – A leap to freedom

Changing The Guard – Marking a new beginning

Coming and Going – And gone forever

Commuting – Wish it was the weeken

Dastardly Dave – May he be cursed forever

Disconnected – No longer on the planet

Doctor, Doctor – Just exactly what health advice are you giving out

Drifting – Slowly escaping

Engagement – Second poem of the self

Face – A consideration of physiognomy

Fatherland – Occupying the territory

Gills and Fins – For children everywhere

Happy New Year – For the days ahead

His Five Aspects of Self – Ecological, Interpersonal, Narrative/Extended, Private, Conceptual

I Want To Be – Not yet certain

Identity – Fifth poem of the self

Learning – Third poem of the self

Learning to Soar – Breaking free

Life – And how it sounds

Living The Reality – On relationships

Melting Clock Face – Slow is the way

My Dad – And other forms of silence

My Voice – My voice is Scottish

Not Perfect – But I think it is ok

Not So Cute – But absolute skill

Note To Self – Moving on

Participation – Now

Postcard Home – Stuck on earth

Quercus Robur – The joy of English oak

Reminders – Of how we fall and rise

Respect – And accept difference

Searching For Love – (A.C.R.O.S.T.I.C.)

Something – Anything

Spirit – Fourth poem of the self

Streetball – Kids with skills

Sun Shining Down – And winter gone

Taking Time To Tick – Meandering moments

The Cold and Dark – I see the snow that isn’t there

The Day Efter The Morra – A poem in Scots

The Demise of Old Lions – As birds take flight

The Good Life – This old jalopy keeps on going

The Gradual Groan – And the hacks in your bones

The Only Truth – Inspired by ‘Kathy’s Song’ by Paul Simon

The Streets – Are not paved with gold

This Is The Day – The day for…

Tree – Of words

Tugging Cloths – Create your own art

Turning A New Leaf – Nothing is what it seems

Underground – Labyrinthine burrows

We Had – All that we needed

You Again – How can it be?

Notes

American Isolationism – In the 1930’s

American Tariffs – And the global response

Annie Lennox – Extraordinary human being

Argument – Trump and Zelensky

Bonhoeffer – Cinema visit

Bridget Jones – Mad about the boy

Coalition – Of the somewhat less willing

Diabetic Retinopathy – Screening programme

Labour Party – Housebuilding plans

Meeting – Keir Starmer meets Volodymyr Zelensky

Meeting in Saudi Arabia – Between Americans and Ukrainians

Mickey 17 – Cinema Trip

NHS England – Abolished

Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

The Alto Knights

Time Travel Is Dangerous – Watching it was even more so

Visit to Cardiff – to see daughter

Wildlife Photographer of The Year – Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

I want to be me, but the me which is only occasionally me wants to be me too. Problem.

I want to be left alone, but only when I don’t want to be with you and all of them too.

I want to be younger, with the knowledge I have now……but everyone wants that.

I want to be quiet, but don’t know how, despite living alone.

I want to be everything for a day so I know what not to be anymore, but I know that already.

I want to be nothing, but I don’t know how to define nothing. ANY thing is easier than NO thing.

I want to be the skin on my back because I never get to see the skin on my back, but that’s not a good reason — or is it?

Fraser
August 2023

I Want To Be – Not yet certain

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