If you want to do something, I believe you should step out of your comfort zone and do it. To live a comfortable, ordinary life is fairly straightforward, though each of us has a different view to what “comfortable” means. And if you are happy in that place, then be happy.

But if you have ever wanted to eat fire, jump out of a plane, live on the other side of the world, start a business in the Amazon, be a flight attendant, have a family (in whatever way that means), buy a house by yourself, sleep in a coffin, ride a motorcycle, befriend a snake, get a tattoo, learn how to tattoo…the list goes on.

Basically I’m saying if you have dreams, whether they’re as small as eating fire, or as big as changing the world — then don’t let a preconception that you should live a quiet, ordinary life take that from you. You were never born to be ordinary.

Ps, If you’re goal in life is to actually eat fire, do your research, and do it safe and do it right with assistance

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April 17, 2018

NEW BURLESQUE VARIETY IN LONDON’S HEART

Hey all! I’m kind of here…working on new stories slowly. In the meantime, I enjoyed opening night at Proud Embankment last week, worth reading about and worth going to see! ^_-

Proud Embankment opened it’s doors on the South Bank this weekend for a raucous preview night of burlesque and cabaret variety — with many more to come!

I took a burlesque virgin with me, and as we walked in the doors, through the lush velvet curtains and up the sweeping stairway to the cocktail bar for a Cosmopolitan (or two), he turned to me and said, “It’s very….Moulin Rouge, isn’t it?”

Yes. Yes it is. And I realised, as we took our cocktails to the edge of the balcony, looking down over seated guests and an impressive aerial performance rig, complete with starlet casually relaxing back on her hoop in a position I could never imagine a human body to relax in, that this is actually a rare thing.

Because Proud Embankment evokes all the fantasy of a Baz Luhrmann masterpiece, spiked with the gritty pedigree only found…

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March 20, 2018

And I drank my fill

Hey world, it’s Tuesday. Already! Sometimes I feel like the world inside me is sleeping, that my imagination has fallen into an enchanted slumber of Briar Rose proportions, while the me in this real, physical world is lost and oppressed, when life gets hard in one area, there’s always a knock on effect where creativity usually suffers first.

I believe creativity comes from a wild, untamed place within our souls, and that when we combine it with the discipline of focus and routine successfully (where that focus and routine is aimed at bringing the creativity forward), then we have our best chances of success in the creative field we are gifted with (and I believe everyone has that creative gift, the journey is about finding it).

In short, creativity needs positive discipline to succeed.

In the long-form, between-the-lines truth of reality, when life gets tough our imagination is the first to fall, and the first to flourish. First to fall in that we lose the ability to channel and discipline it to our advantage because we are otherwise emotionally engaged — like a lion that whilst he can be trained, cannot be tamed. As soon as your attention is elsewhere, the lion is elsewhere to.

First to flourish in that so much creativity is birthed in pain. It’s when we are the most raw and hurt and alone that streams of creativity flow out of the wounds. Turn your back on the lion you thought you had tamed, and he’ll pounce on you while you are unaware.

So the image and story above represent both these sides of creativity. Darkness in place, light in the creation of words on paper in their form, shape and flow.

And who doesn’t like a good little vampiric allegory? Make of it what you may—your creativity is evident in the interpretation.

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