Winter was for taking a step back and considering. Spring is for action. My digital streamlining continues, but it continues at a reasonable pace and comfortable in the knowledge that it remains a work in progress. The older I get, the more I realise how much I enjoy showing my working. I used to obsess …

I’m up to something. The other day, I found myself using a phrase that my parents used quite often when I was a child. “Auri,” I said in an ominous tone. “You’re up to something.” It is both joyful and terrifying to watch a miniature you grow up before your eyes. There are things that …

A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices. I am beginning to suspect I have become somewhat immobilised by how much I want to say. Since I last wrote, I have started numerous updates and jotted down fleeting thoughts (increasingly, these days, if said thoughts are not jotted down then they run the risk of …

Weird Exhausting Purgatory It is surprising, given how comparatively (physically, geographically) constricted our lives have been this year, how many times I have sat down to write missives of various sorts and felt the urge to start with, “Yeesh, what a week!” Everything is relentless, and I say that as someone who has been fortunate …

Whisper of Harvest Home The first day of September is one of my favourite days of the year. It always brings a curious peace. That promise of autumn. The funny thing is, it always surprises me, year on year, that I feel this way. Even on the last day of August, I note the date, …

A New Phase of 2020 Madness Well, it’s quite the year we’re having. This update has taken various forms over the last few weeks: drafted, abandoned, re-drafted. Tweaked. Changed entirely. With everything going on, some of my early drafts didn’t sit right with me. Then there was the compounded physical and mental exhaustion. Then the …