Mick Canning's Blog, page 9
October 18, 2022
Peak Autumn
The leaves are turning, but in some cases, such as these oaks, still very slowly. On Sunday, I was wandering around under the oak trees in the woods for a while. It was a gloriously sunny morning and I found myself stuffing my pockets with acorns and oak leaves. For no particular reason – they …
October 14, 2022
Sarnath
It’s mid February 2008, and I am in Sarnath. Formerly a deer park, Sarnath lies 10km outside Varanasi and is the place where the Buddha came after his enlightenment at Bodhgaya, to seek out his former companions who were living there in huts and give his first sermon, on the turning of the Wheel of …
October 11, 2022
Dark Days
Having read Some Kind of Fifty‘s post on the subject of how we get through the coming seasons, I got to thinking about how I deal with the short, dark, days of winter myself. I am sure I am affected by SAD, but there are some facets of autumn and winter I enjoy and I …
September 24, 2022
Henry
I’m going offline for a few days, so here’s Henry to make sure you behave yourselves while I’m away.
September 20, 2022
Autumn Equinox
Often, it still feels like summer at this time of year, but I feel autumn has truly arrived now. This morning I walked a path I haven’t walked for a week or more to find the sun was that much lower than it had been and I was constantly having to shade my eyes. It’s …
September 17, 2022
Antisocial Media
I’m sure I cannot be alone in being unable to decide what I want my relationship with social media to be. One minute I determine I want as little to do with it as possible, then the next I’m commenting on Twitter posts and posting my own. It seems I simply cannot make up my …
September 7, 2022
My Books
I’ve admitted defeat. I’ve now spent too long trying to find a platform for my print on demand books that doesn’t use Amazon and I just don’t have the time to faff around with it for any longer. Consequently I’ve put them back up on there.
July 27, 2022
Pause…
Hi Everyone. I’m going to take some time offline for a while (as I seem to do more and more often these days!) in a (probably vain) attempt to preserve my sanity. Behave yourselves while I’m away.
July 23, 2022
Driven
I’ve written elsewhere how, like many others, I feel I write because I have to; ideas come into my head and I need to set them out and explore them, to bring them to a conclusion. Because I feel driven by these ideas. I’ve also written of how the muse sometimes just ups and leaves …
July 13, 2022
It’s Difficult…
Bits of poems keep coming to me at the moment, but only in the form of phrases or the odd line. And nothing that relates to other poems I might be working on. Then when I attempt to tease them out further, the muse just disappears. I think I’ve finished with A Good Place (the …
