Clive La Pensée

How to unwind?

Or let it break. Water can lap at a sandy bank, keep pushing until it feels success. It can never unwind, release the tension, find the endpoint, settle for temporary reprieve. It seems everything must always be doing something, even if aways the same. Thus, the water understands frogs and grasshoppers singing through the night, but always singing the same.

Are German beer purity laws a hindrance?

A beer mug picked up at a flea market, celebrating laws over 500 yrs old. Time to let go! Remove the ball and chain from your leg, brewers!

Why do we ignore the facts about the Gulf Stream?

It doesn’t matter how much evidence is presented, no one in power accepts that the world is on fire. Check the interactive version out by clicking the link. I was stunned by the interactive version. The picture shows a Gulf Stream as no one wants to see it.

Socialist Art. Really?

Mindfulness not only comes in useful to determine what we thought at the moment, but eighty words might reveal what the model was thinking.

So why do authors bother?

Why do we write We are exhibitionists, who want to be the centre of attention.