• Happen to me

    If I let you Happen to me Pretend words have no meaning Let you build A fence of language A language offence To hold against me You ought to hold against me The border of your skin Between our fingers entwined A distance so far An ocean in our eyes…

  • Science fiction at its best

    The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin My rating: 5 of 5 stars A marvellously thought-provoking and well-written book. Having read my way through the Hainish cycle has placed Ursula K. Le Guin among my favourite authors. All of the Hainish books are good. Four of them are brilliant, and…

  • Review: Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” What it may lack in subtlety it makes up for in eloquence. A recap of the Bible,…

  • I’ve got life

    I have a job!!! A job relevant for my qualifications, even. I have a home, I have friends, I have love, I have a body, I have my health, I have beautiful memories, I have hope for the future, I have the spark of creation surging through my being, I…

  • My summer so far

    Shock is morphing into joy. I’m doing things that I enjoy every day, together with people I love hanging out with. Without feeling bad about not studying or writing or whatever. Energy levels are picking back up, and I am so excited. About the rest of the summer, and then…

  • Summer solstice musings

    I passed. Not away, but the dissertation. I have a Master’s degree. I’m not a student any longer. How do I feel about it? I don’t know. Triumph? Relief? Joy? Calm? I guess those are the kinds of things I ought to be feeling. But I don’t know. I have…

  • Quoth the tired astronomer

    Imagine looking up into the sky at night, toward the stars that faintly glow, to curse your human mind for being slow and yet unable to cease asking why. Those distant lights insist on passing by, around the Earth and through your mind they go, suggesting that there is so…