I’m going to be running a sound bath tomorrow at Caer Corhrain at 8pm. If you fancy coming along for some relaxation and rejuvenation through sound, do drop by or contact me for details. I’ll be running them monthly on the 2nd Thursday of the month, though not in October as I’ll be in America.

If you feel moved to have some sound healing, I’m doing one-on-one sessions as well. It’s exciting and enjoyable times for me lately.

And I’ll be in Norfolk for the weekend with Touch The Earth, who are playing a gig for children’s hospice charities. Check out their myspace page here for details if you live in the area.

Love is the key-
The space to be free!

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed August - I can say that the life of my dreams is unfolding quite nicely. I’ve spent wonderful times at some festivals, The Summer Gathering at Gaunt’s House in Dorset, and Small World in Kent, and met so many beautiful and wonderful people. I’ve also been invited to join my very good friends Touch The Earth on stage to drum and sing with them, which was a real honour, their music is so vibrant and passionate.

I’ve also begun my journey of healing others through sound and voice, and confirmed to myself just how important music and sound is to me - it is such a great feeling to have discovered a gift I have been given to share with the world.

With so many leaps and changes in my life and reality I can see that it’s now time to update my online presence to reflect those things which are most important to me - so prepare yourselves for some shifting of my website.

May we all unfold with beauty. Aum.

For anyone who remembers Q&V, go straight there to check out a new one-off issue I’ve drawn. For those who don’t know - I once drew a comic strip which I put online, you can still visit Volume 1 here. Then follow the links to Volume 2 if you want to read that one as well.

Richard over at A Quiet Watercourse has moved his blog over to wordpress, so you can now find his most interesting thoughts here.

He had this to say when describing his link to my blog here:

“An incredible blog, a massive influence on my own writings.”

To say I was deeply moved by this was an understatement. I consider Richard’s style to be quite different from mine in that quite often he simply puts a question out there rather than making any firm attempts to answer it. He likes to consider what really happened instead of focusing on why it happened, and in this way manages to live his questions rather than wasting life and energy in searching for answers to questions which only begets more questions - the type of thinking that gets lost in linear logic and is never peaceful because life is at its core a Big Mystery.

I’d like to think I learn from him at least as much as he learns from me, so allow me to suggest you go over and take a look at his blog if you haven’t already. Richard, we look forward to seeing how the new wordpress version of the site progresses.

That’s right, I’m 25 years old today! Quarter of a century. And I don’t care what you say, another year older is another year wiser, and it’s definitely something to celebrate. Like a fine wine, the Quality of my life is only improving with time. Leaping over the bars I had considered “as good as it gets” and going up and up and up and up.

As my dear friend Andy said to me, “Onwards and upwards my friend”. Allow me to offer the same feeling to you.

To Life! * clinks glass *

Well, it’s been a while since my last post, which looked like it could be the last, though I was still a little inconclusive about it.

Chatting with my good friend Rob, I realized that actually I do have a lot of say which could be of benefit to the world, things that people do need to hear. Whether they listen or not is up to them, and in a way is none of my business.

It suddenly became very apparent that I had been having one rule for myself and one for everyone else. I would never dare to say that someone shouldn’t speak unless they embody their words 100%, yet that was exactly what I was expecting of myself. Perfectionism is one of my most prominent flaws, and it has sapped my energy and my sense of fun and playful laughter more times than I can count. And the unflattering by-product of perfectionism? Control-freakism, and nothing turns someone into an unfeeling rigid funless creature than trying to be in control of everything with a vice-like grip, especially things that are meant to flow, like movements and emotions and thoughts, and even belief systems.
So, Rob and I figured it is time I started up journalling my journey again, for that’s really what this blog has always been about. I speak some wise words that sometimes I live up to and sometimes I don’t, but I no longer doubt that they can serve a purpose for anyone reading them, if they are so inclined to take something from them.

Don’t be too surprised if my style does change a bit, but I’ll let it unfold as it will, and whatever happens, it’ll be exactly as it needs to be.

After some difficulty, I’ve installed a new version of Gallery, so if you’d like to check out a really unbalanced view of some of the things that I do and photograph, check it out here. I hope to intergrate it into the site a bit more, work on matching the theme up and perhaps even linking in the photos I use on the blog into the gallery. But I’ve done enough for now, no sense slogging myself to death on such a thing