#i have to remember that if we do go the hospice route that its not like shes already dead

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ngl guys.. feeling so hopeless about my situation 🫶

[yespoetry]

Control the Echoes

By Jonathan Russell Clark

Her spoken sentences tended to omit proper nouns, leaving only discursive, aimless run-ons that veered off one point, switched to another, swooped again, got murky, and finally landed not really anywhere specific but simply where a period arbitrarily stopped them.

“You were here when they told me,” she’d say, “and so you know that I’m not trying to do anything like they said I did, but they keep coming at me, and I don’t know who or what or where anymore, because there isn’t anything like that that I want, and I said that I was fine yesterday because I saw her over there, you know the young one, the one with the, oh what’s her hair like, and she wasn’t asking because like I said I wasn’t saying anything if I didn’t want to.”

The hospice info pamphlets said to go along with whatever she said, but how do go along with that? It didn’t take long, though, for me to figure out the purpose of going along with the things she said. If you don’t, you have to ask for clarification, or you have to contradict them, or you have to interrupt an already tenuous thread—and none of it with any results. It’s the flow that’s important, not the content. If I’d stopped my grandmother and said, for example, “Who are they?” she’d look at me as if I’d just asked her the most nonsensical thing, since of course she didn’t know who they were, because who they were didn’t matter. What mattered for her was some deep need to express, to communicate something, even if that something didn’t come out explicable. It was the act of talking that compelled her, and any obstruction jammed the rhythm and frustrated her. And since no actual clarification or sense came from any question we asked her, it was obviously better to let the linguistic current expel forth unimpeded.

Among her verbal hemorrhaging were numerous references to her long life: sometimes she’d wonder why her parents hadn’t been around to see her; sometimes she asked if I knew her brother, and where was he; and other times it seemed the words were some uncontrollable reverberation of various points in her nine decades.

An echo of herself.

*

In Aleksander Hemon’s novel The Lazarus Project, there is the following line: “Nobody can control resemblances, any more than you can control echoes.”

If there is a sound and a reverberating obstacle, there is an echo. There is no judgment in the existence of that echo, no choice, no accusation of agency, no life in it. Nobody accuses an echo of hyperbole, of lying, of falsifying the expanse of its resound. It is simply there because it is there.

*

 Three years. Three years. Three years. Three years.

I’ve never reached a fourth anniversary with a partner. All four of my major relationships ended at three, never developing the ability to speak in complex sentences, never learned to count past ten or understand the concept of time or tell a story about what happened to them.

My relationships died before they began to truly become independent. The failure of my love—its inability to keep something alive—repeats in my mind and through me when I meet someone who moves me. The joyous noise of new love echoes off the obstacle of my past failures, and I can no more control it than I can family resemblances.

*

My mother looks like my grandmother, and my sister looks like my mother, but my sister really looks like my grandmother. I see each of them in each other, in little softly articulated ways, as subtle as color schemes in well-decorated interiors, minute spots of this shade, that one, which unite a space of otherwise unconnected things.

*

Echoes are beyond our control—unless we alter the geography of where the sound is made.

*

Echo is a nymph in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who is condemned to repeat the last few words of whatever Narcissus says. So when he asks, “Is anyone there?” she responds, “One there?”

I am standing in a cavern at Old Man’s Cave in Ohio, where I’m from. I yell out, “HELLO!” and hear loud and clear my voice coming back to me: ELLO Ello ello lo lo o.

Echoes do not return our words; rather, they transform them.

*

From Lacy M. Johnson’s essay “The Reckonings,” in which she grapples with notions of justice and retribution for the man who kidnapped, raped, and tried to kill her:

I carry these stories with me because I don’t know what else to do with them. The details may differ. If it is not the story of an abusive lover, perhaps it is a mother, or a father, or an uncle; or it is the story of a friend who has been killed by a stranger while trying to do the right thing, or a woman who is shot in the back of the head while asking for help; it might be a story about the abuse of power, or authority, of the slow violence of bureaucracy, of the way some people are born immune to punishment and others spend whole lifetimes being punished in ways they did nothing to deserve.

These horrific and common stories demand a corresponding action—some form of symmetrical absolution, as in movies where the villain is righteously killed by the victimized hero. “Then, as now,” Johnson writes, “we want to transform our suffering: to take a pain we experience and change it into the satisfaction of causing pain for someone else.”

Later, on becoming a writer: “I’ve called myself a writer now for more than half of my life, and during all this time, I have learned that sometimes the hardest and more important work I’ve done has meant turning a story I couldn’t tell into one that I can—and that this practice on its own is one not only of discovery but of healing.”

*

The American Psychiatric Association has this to say on PTSD:

People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience that last long after the traumatic event has ended. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may feel sadness, fear or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong negative reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch.

*

Echo tries to touch Narcissus, but he repels and rebukes her, saying, “Hands off! May I die before you enjoy my body.” To which Echo replies: “…enjoy my body.”

*

Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves features a chapter dedicated to echoes. This chapter has caused much consternation in readers: if you Google “house of leaves echoes” you’ll find numerous threads asking why this section is included in the book at all.

From that chapter:

Nevertheless, above and beyond the details of frequency shifts and volume fluctuations—the physics of ‘otherness’—what matters most is a sound’s delay.

Point of fact, the human ear cannot distinguish one sound wave from the same sound wave if it returns in less than 50 milliseconds. Therefore for anyone to hear a reverberation requires a certain amount of space.

*

My grandmother, out of necessity, does the same things everyday: she gets out of bed, takes medications, eats some fruit or toast, sits in her chair and watches TV. And she talks. In circles, full of non sequitors, wholly incomprehensible. Though there is sometimes a hint of frustration or helplessness in her words, she does not seem unhappy.

And yet she is losing herself. Has already lost most of herself. This self now—the one that still lives, functions, talks—isn’t her. So she isn’t happy; she is gone.

It is this echo that seems happy.

*

From Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence:

The painting is an allegory of the evils of power, how they pass down the chain from the greater to the lesser. Human beings were clutched at, and clutched at others in their turn. If power was a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others. The echo of the mighty deafened the ears of the helpless.

I repeat: echoes do not repeat; they transform. It may be slight, it may seem miniscule, but it is not the same as the original vibration; it is like a recollection of it, a memory.

Memories fuzz the details. They make them murky. They soften the edges of some parts, intensify the sharpness of others. But we do not mistake memories for current realities, no more than we believe that a son and a father are the same person, merely because they share traits, look alike, echo each other.

*

Imagine the inside of yourself. Not the physical inside but the abstract inner space—the spirit or the soul or the heart or the essence—whatever you want to call it or believe it to be.

Imagine it as an open expanse of sky, or an endless field of grass, or a wide ocean. Imagine these impossible geographies filled with items: the house you grew up in; your first pair of glasses; your crush on your neighbor; the backpack you lost on the subway; the books you read and remember; the words that hurt you, that healed you, that gave definition to something that before was inarticulate; the shape of your calf; a painting by a friend; the hope you carry that persists in the face of repeated failures. It is you who connect this space of otherwise unconnected things.

Now imagine moving through these expanses—flying, walking, swimming—brushing up against the items, through them, past them, around them; touching them, holding them, feeling them. Imagine the culmination of these touches, these brushes, how they add up in your fingertips, give you a sense of surfaces, a variety of weight.

Imagine a sudden interruption in these spaces—a wall bounding upwards forever, a cliff with no foot routes, a curved shaped you can’t get above or below or around or inside. Imagine trying to continue moving through the space, but not matter what you do, you can’t get above or below or around or inside this interruption. In vain, you attack it with your fists, which only serves to confound your sense of touch, which before had been the entire point of moving. You have no options. Like some Biblical figure, like some mythological cypher, you yell at the interruption, condemning, berating, pleading, accusing, decrying…

But your words do nothing to it; they only echo back, mocking your futility.

*

When Narcissus first hears Echo in the woods, before he rebukes her, he calls out to her, “This way! We must come together.” Echo replies: “We must come together.”

*

We do not know what to do about my grandmother. She is not she and yet she is.

I do not know what to do with my new love, how I can deflect the echoes of my three-year pattern. Every love is different and yet shades of similarity persist.

We do not know how to get over trauma—not fully, not completely. Those echoes will always be there; we can no more control them than we can control the cause of that trauma.

We do not control the echoes of us; we can only control our own volume, the spaces we create sound in, our voices. We cannot control the sounds of others—“the physics of ‘otherness’”—but we can to the best of our ability change our distance, our space in relation to the echoes, to maybe get close enough to the source, that we can hear it no longer. We must turn the stories we can’t tell into ones that we can. We must reverse the echoes of power.

We must come together.

Jonathan Russell Clark is a literary critic. He is the author of An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom (Fiction Advocate), on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. A former contributing editor at Literary Hub, his work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, Tin House, The Atlantic, The New Republic, the Columbus Dispatch, The Georgia Review, The Millions, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, Chautauqua, PANK, and numerous others.

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Coming Attractions March 2020

As usual, we present monthly previews of new movies being released. These are the movies what will be hitting your local cinemas this month:

March 6th

Onward - Pixar’s newest animated film, one of two coming this year, is the story of two elves in a magical world that has lost its magic. The two brothers, voiced  by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, go on a magical quest to reconnect with this long-lost father. So far reviews have been extremely positive, yet does reach the lofty heights that Pixar films usually reach.

The Way Back - The ongoing sub-genre of youth sports coaches who are battling their own personal demons (Hardball and The Mighty Ducks) now has a new addition revolving around the game of basketball. In The Way Back, from director Gavin O’Connor, Ben Affleck stars as a former basketball player turned high school coach struggling with alcoholism. If this film starred anyone else, I’d probably wouldn’t give it a second thought. But it is Affleck, and for Affleck, I will be there opening weekend.

Spenser Confidential - Coming to Netflix this week is the fifth collaboration of actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg. Wahlberg stars as detective Spenser, while Winston Duke is his partner Hawk in this loose adaptation of the novel Wonderland.

March 13th

The Informer - In this crime thriller based on the 2009 Swedish novel, Three Seconds, Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, and Clive Owen star as an FBI informant and his subsequent handlers. The film was originally slated for release last March before being delayed to August 2019, then January 2020, before settling on this March, 51 weeks past its original release date.

Bloodshot - I can’t say I ever read the Bloodshot comic book and know nothing about the titular character. However, the first trailer for the film was phenomenal and told a thrilling tale of a broken man being manipulating into doing the bidding of a violent organization. I have a limited desire to see the film, but I’d happily watch the trailer over and over again. 

The Hunt - Remember last fall when there was a Damon Lindelof and Jason Blum produced thriller, loosely based on “The Most Dangerous Game”, set for release that was abruptly pulled from release calendars after some fake outrage from the President of the United States and his acolytes? Well, that movie was The Hunt and it is coming to theaters - finally - this month.

I Still Believe -  As I have said countless times before, when a trailer ends with the phrase “For group tickets, call...” you know you have permission to ignore it.

March 20th

A Quiet Place: Part II - When A Quiet Place hit theaters in 2018, it surprised everyone with its impressive $50.2 million opening weekend haul en route to a box office gross of $340 million. And of course, there is a sequel, once again starring Emily Blunt and written and directed by John Krasinski. A Quiet Place was a film that was a must-see in theaters to experience the utter silence of the audience and the film, I hope the sequel requires the theater experience all the same.

March 27th

Mulan - Disney quest to remake all their animated films continues this month with their adaptation of the 1998 animated film of the same name which was based on Chinese folklore. Mulan appears to be different than most of the other remakes being that is not a musical (though neither were the new Cinderella and Dumbo films) and it doesn’t appear to be a movie for kids in general - the movie is rated PG-13. Obviously, the subject matter of a live-action epic war film doesn’t lean heavily toward the PG rating, it is still surprising nonetheless. Regardless, the film looks fantastic and I am eager to see it.

Saint Maud - The year’s early turn toward horror continues with Saint Maud, the story of a possessed hospice nurse, from first-time director Rose Glass. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival late last year to very positive reviews and at only 83 minutes long, you won’t have to cover your eyes for long if you get too scared during the movie.

Now for a quick look ahead to March, my top picks for next month are The New Mutants and No Time to Die.

-MB-

[travel200899]

This winter (as in winter 2018, since i decided to not post this post in time!) by far has been the best winter of my professional life. I have not worked for the past 3 months (that would have been months of feb/mar/april 2018) and have enjoyed every moment of not doing much,to the maximum. Like every year in the month of March and April I travel with my mother, this time we were a crew of 3. My mum, sister and myself. WE decided to undertake a trip to Provence in France and explore all that is it well-known for – Lavender and Olive fields, cherry blossoms, the herbs, quaint and beautiful villages, the strong regional accents and of course – Calissions! We took the back roads and the longest route possible  via the D and the N roads to see as much of the countryside as we could. The almost 13 hours journey was covered over the course of  2 days – stopping over the first night in a fairy tale castle. Only in France!

The journey started from Paris, renting a car from the airport and making our way over to our first stop – Beaune. I remember watching this old French film -> can’t remember the name at all :-S and seeing the hospice of Beaune featured in it for less than 30 seconds, since then  I have always  wanted to visit this place. Beaune is a real jewel of Burgundy, well-known not only for the Hospice but for beautiful craft shops and of course the wine. It comes across as a very polished little town. 

This place has been a functioning hospice since mid 1400’s till late 1970’s, looking after the orphans, disabled, elderly, sick and the destitute. The institution is one of the best and oldest examples of historical, philanthropic, and wine-producing heritage, and has become linked with the economic and cultural life of Burgundy. That evening we checked into our beautiful accommodation and met lovely  and kind – Thierry,  who spoiled us with a fridge full of food and a castle to admire that has been in his family for over more than a century, a real treat to visit and explore. My mind did wander off and I did imagine myself to be a real life princess living it this magnificent old castle full of character and charm.

I would have loved to meet Thierry’s grand father and talk to him about his life and experiences. I was warned by Thierry well in advance that if i bump into him he will sit and talk for hours ( Which I would have loved and welcomed) except we needed to make a move early in the morning towards St- Remy de Provence which was a good 8 hours away.  Remember, I took the longest route possible.  I left with lovely memories of our stay in this beautiful place, that I hope to visit again sometime in the future.

The following day ended up being long and lovely as we drove through all old villages  looking for any sign of life. Am thinking Easter had something to do with it. Not a human or a bunny in sight. Felt strange. We were thrilled every time we saw a human being in the form of a child or an old man crossing the street and no exaggeration, the whole day we probably saw 10 humans till we reached our final destination of St- Remy de Provence.

Every day I woke up to this beautiful scenery, listening to the cocks crowing and birds twittering, ready to start my day with a new village to explore and new adventures to record with my faithful camera in tow.

  Life is slow in this place, people enjoy every second of their day. Tilling the fertile land, making it ready for the fresh crop. Pruning the vines, cluster thinning before the blooming takes place in the following month.  Life in Provence is at an all together different rhythm – the one that I like and would love to experience again.

Over the course of next 8 days we explored the most beautiful villages of Provence.

 GORDES Keeping st- Remy de Provence as our central point we explored the region around, making sure that we were not driving for more than an hour to max 2 hours a day but spending as much time as we could exploring the beauty of these hilltop villages. Gordes is featured on the cover of literally every book you would pick up wanting to know about Provence. It’s been the home to many artists in the past and is no wonder the seat of many cultural events in the summer-time.

BORIES VILLAGES Not far from Gordes is – the Bories village, which reflects into the early account of the way of life in Provence. The whole village is constructed of dry stone walls without the use of mortar, skillfully stacked, reflecting the harmony of natural material. It’s a true display of architectural masterpiece.

ABBEY DE SENANQUE The 12th century abbey is surrounded by Lavender fields and is quite an attraction in the summer months with the purple in full bloom. We purchased our stack of Lavender ‘everything’ from eau de toilet, to lavender honey, to lavender face oil to lavender room spray to lavender itself. This picture would have looked a whole lot different if we were visiting this place in the month of June.

VENASQUE Venasque is an old medieval settlement which only has the remains of the ramparts and three Saracen towers to show as evidence of those times. Steep lanes, creamy stone houses, Notre Dame Cathedral and a magnificent 11C baptistery are to be found in the heart of this Provencal village.

 ST REMY DE PROVENCE St. Remy de Provence has a lot to offer. The village is best known for housing Van Gogh and being the birthplace of Nostradamus. Here, more than anywhere, you can meditate quietly on antiquity, browse aromatic markets with basket in hand, peer down the very row of plane trees you remember from a Van Gogh, and also enjoy urbane galleries, cosmopolitan shops, and specialty food boutiques.

I’SLE SUR LA SORGUE The river Sorgue surrounds the city as if to hug it. Walking along the canals you will notice how they run between the narrow ancient streets. There are little bridges to cross and great wheels to look at with mossy blades turning in the river. Antique lovers and art collectors will be gratified by the nearly 300 permanent antique dealers and second-hand shops here.

  MENERBES The village of Menerbes is nestled on a hill-top surrounded by the most beautiful countryside. Getting to the village can be a bit of a challenge for those who are not used to hill driving as the road leading to the village is quite narrow but nothing scary. I would have loved to visit the “corkscrew “museum – corkscrew of course was invented by a French man in the 12th century, except we got in quite late and it was closed but something well worth visiting from what I could gather.

  ROUSSILLON The red, yellow and brown shades of the earth form a striking contrast with the lush green pine trees. The vivid blue of the Provencal sky and the exceptional quality of light make this a magical site. The village is well-known for its magnificent red cliffs and ochre quarries.

Continuation of the blog – jan 15th 2019

The list of the villages visited is long, quite long but what stands out the most is the discussions we had along the way and the experiences we shared together. Like the time both myself and my sister were dying to relieve ourselves and drove into this secluded, hidden from clear view, abbey. The place was deserted, not a soul in sight and I was this close to just squatting in the middle of the entrance and heaving a sigh of relief. That of course didn’t happen as you can’t forget, Jessica, my sister, is quite refined unlike yours truly and we managed to find a side entrance to a tractor shed where we left our DNA. Mum in the meanwhile was busy, taking in the sights and clicking memories. Every night Hugh Hefner would show up. I am laughing out loud as I type this as anyone who’d been there at that time would have agreed with me.  Jessica would waltz around the place looking like a million dollars. Not coz she was clad in gold before heading to bed, but ‘coz she would pull out these satin pyjamas that I christened – Hugh. They were royal blue in colour and were so flowey that they reminded me of Hugh Hefner. She would pull out Hugh every night and the story would go the same. I would ask her at the end of the evening if Hugh would be showing up in the evening as just his mere presence would send me into laughter fits, and the answer was always :- you better believe it! Hugh is currently in London and I can’t wait to get a glimpse of him in February.

The time that we were driving back from ‘le pont du diable’ and happened to cross these fields full of cherry blossoms. The first ones that we laid eyes on, and I swirled the car around and drove straight into the field so we could just absorb the beauty of the place, the picture of which is so vivid in my memory even now, as I shut my eyes and type this out.

This trip was a very special, one that took me over a year to type out and publish, the one that blessed me with memories to cherish for a lifetime, the one that was very hard at times but laughter always preceded the heavy discussions. Provence left a very fragrant, vibrant purple imprint in my mind’s eye…

        La belle Provence This winter (as in winter 2018, since i decided to not post this post in time!) by far has been the best winter of my professional life.

[mikethemod]

Mikethemod’s Brighton Marathon Prep.

Saturday was the highlight of my week. Our best friends Debbie and Andy Harris, AKA Bootleg Blondie, decided they were going to take Dawn and me, AKA mikethemod, on film location in Brighton. I didn’t have the heart to tell them about my potential hernia as I knew they were looking forward to our day out!

When we got up at 7am on Saturday it was raining so Dawn gave me grief about her hair going curly. And it was still raining when Deb and Andy arrived at 10am in the Bootleg Blondie Van. This is a real Rock n Roll van divided into two sections - half for band members to travel in (famous musicians have signed the interior walls) - and the other half to transport whatever.

It was then that we discovered the scooter wouldn’t fit in the back of the van. This wasn’t a good start. As I stood there looking helpless Andy came to the rescue by producing a large leather bag of tools from nowhere and sent me into my garage to search for some wing nuts. It was a scene that many real scooterists - including myself - have endured far too many times; we were both kneeling on the wet road in the pouring rain trying to undo bolts that were stuck fast.

Half an hour later we were sorted, phew, and the four of us, plus a dismantled leg-powered Lambretta, were finally en route to Brighton. Our first stop was Preston Park. This is where the masses start the Brighton Marathon race and is also the home of the famous Steve Ovett statue - or so I thought.

At this point I need to backtrack a little…. last year a PWR colleague told me he was on the Elite Start, at Withdean Park on the London Road, as he had run a good time in the Boston Marathon. I ran the Phoenix AC relays many years ago (Steve Ovett was on the same start line) – and I remembered that Withdean Park was flat. This appealed.

I wrote a polite email to the organisers telling them my best half-marathon time and asked if I could be on the Elite Start with my training friend. By the time I attended the Brighton Expo with Dawn to collect my number, I had been accepted on the Elite Start. Yes. We had a celebratory veggie lunch afterwards at Terre Terre.

Back to the present….. Andy skillfully manoeuvred his van along a narrow road up the side of Preston Park but I couldn’t see the statue of my hero Steve Ovett. A hasty Google informed us poor Steve had been cut down and stolen 10 years ago in 2007. Is nothing sacred?! Then we read that Steve had been remade (hurray!) and unveiled in 2012 on Madeira Drive by the Brighton Marathon Finish line - and the Volks Bar, home to any journeying Scooterist - double delight. Andy reset the Satnav and we soon got our first glimpse of the sea.

Our second stop was the loos on Madeira Drive. These are always well looked after but bloody freezing. Last time I was there I couldn’t climb off my scooter quick enough - after two hours spent clinging onto my 50 year old Lambretta I severely regretted wearing button fly Levis 501s.

Loo stop completed, our third stop was a parking bay where we deposited more coins than the Hatton Garden raiders lifted, to pay for just one hour’s parking. And there, in fine fettle and surveying the open sea, was my man Steve Ovett. His majestic running style was perfectly captured; big chest, arms barrelling round, hands soft and relaxed.

 Dawn and Debbie were our costume and film crew and Andy was our Director. Cue - photo of mikethemod in Parka and Tootal scarf with Steve, photo of mikethemod in Teenage Cancer Trust Mod-style cycling shirt with Steve, photo of mikethemod in Demelza Hospice Care for Children Mod-style cycling shirt with Steve. Action - film of mikethemod in Parka running up and down, film of mikethemod in Teenage Cancer Trust Mod-style cycling shirt, etc etc, …..you get the drift.

During filming a guy in a disability car drove along the road and gave us a wave. This was an opportunity too good miss. With the Director waving his arms around, Mikethemod sprung into action and a Benny Hill-style epic was in the bag. Oh yes.

 Our fourth stop was near the 7-mile point on the Brighton Marathon course, offering stunning views over the cliffs. With the sun glinting off the English Channel, Director Andy and I immediately had the same idea and Mikethemod - in his various  guises - was soon running east and west along the cliff edge with the wind blowing, the sea breaking below and the Who’s ‘I’ve had enough’ playing in our heads.

After all this emotion, mikethemod, the film crew and the Director were in need of a restorative cuppa. On the road leading back into Brighton we discovered a 50s-looking café above the Marina named the Roedean Café - what a jewel, our fifth stop. With fantastic views over Brighton Marina and some delicious-looking food being served to locals, we enjoyed three perfect latte coffees and one Earl Grey tea.

Sixth stop the beach. I just couldn’t help myself. Marching over the stones carrying my polystyrene Lambretta, I went right to the sea’s edge and sat down. Wrapped in my Parka, I was ‘Jimmy’. The film crew got to work and took some impressive shots with Brighton Pier as our backdrop. After a few more photos at the front of the pier and by two Blondie-esque red telephone boxes, we were back in the van heading to our seventh stop - the Grand Hotel.

Andy parked up on the seafront and I ran over to the hotel to explain that mikethemod was fundraising for Teenage Cancer Trust and Demelza and we would like to take some photos outside the Grand Hotel. The Concierge Team could not have been more helpful. They allowed us to park our van right on the hotel forecourt and their fantastically professional Concierge ‘Paf’ - complete with top hat and tailcoat - ensured we got some great pics. I did think it was funny that one of the team said he never knew why some people walked past the hotel shouting ‘Bell Boy’! I advised him to go straight home and watch Sting in Quadrophenia.

By now we were tired and hungry (mainly me) but we had two more stops to go. In fact we stumbled across our eighth stop while looking for a parking place in or around ‘The Lanes’. Andy stopped the van to let a car pass and beside me to my left was a tiny lane disappearing behind a shop. “That’s it” I said - East Street’s Alleyway where Jimmy ‘hid’ with Steph (Leslie Ash) as the fighting Mods and Rockers were chased by the police. Jimmy and Steph actually did a little bit more than just hiding in this alley.

Andy put the hazards on, Dawn guarded the van on a yellow line and we quickly ran down the alley. In a tiny corner there was a door covered in scooter club stickers and mod patches. Hilarious - someone had scrawled ‘mikethemod’ on the wall! I am a celeb you know. We had a laugh taking pics in various poses and then dashed back to the van.

Ninth stop - the Mod shop Jump The Gun in the North Lanes. I had been there some months before to tell them about my project but got short shrift. Unfortunately they weren’t enamoured to see us again and, despite mikethemod and his scooter drawing a small crowd outside their shop, all they could do was tell us we were in the way of the door.

Tenth and last stop - fish and chips. The Palm Court restaurant on Brighton Pier is one of the town’s quality food venues. A year ago I booked tables for 50 Petts Wood Runners after we ran the Brighton 10k and we were all impressed with the quality of the food served here.

With its location at the end of the pier offering fine views out to sea and along Brighton’s coast, you may expect the Palm Court to rest on its laurels and be an expensive low-quality tourist trap. It most definitely isn’t. Dawn had a perfectly-baked salmon Debbie and Andy chose tasty vegetarian lasagnas and I went for the ‘Big Fish’, a 12oz cod loin - fantastic. Our food was fresh and hot, the service was friendly and efficient and the restaurant was smart and clean.

Outside the sun was now setting on the horizon and we watched a huge black mass of starlings dance over the sea in liquid formation. Although we were full, we couldn’t resist the aroma coming from the doughnut kiosk so we bought a bag of four piping hot sugar-covered doughnuts (I am carbo-loading you know) and ate them on the way back to the van. A great day. Now home to find out what goodies were captured inside our collection of cameras.

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Colin Baker on the Spiritualism of Doctor Who

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It’s February and I’m at Capital Sci Fi Con in Edinburgh, sitting next to Colin Baker. The day before, I’d brought my young sons to his table for an autograph, where he’d entertained them with all the bluster, bombast and larger-than-life loquaciousness we’d all come to expect from the Sixth Doctor, even if the man in whose gaze they were held transfixed was wearing a slightly older face, and a significantly less colourful jacket than they were accustomed to seeing.

For today’s interview, Baker is thoroughly shorn of his Sixth-ness, and seems more like the lawyer he once trained to be. He’s engaging, generous and attentive, and clearly has a mind like a steel trap. I wouldn’t have liked to have found myself opposite him in court.

We find ourselves reflecting on Baker’s deep connection to Doctor Who, and the legacy of the show itself.    

‘The reason Doctor Who endures, it’s about an eternal theme, which is the angel who comes down from heaven, and saves you, or the cowboy who rides into town. What’s his name? We don’t know. And he rides out again, having solved all your problems. And that’s who the Doctor is. He’s this… dream figure who solves all your problems. Without wishing in any way to offend people of a religious bent, that’s what a lot of religion is about.’

I look around us. Just a glance, but it’s enough to detect the bustling, ritualistic fervour, the ceremonial dress, and wide-eyed reverence in evidence all around us. I suggest to him that you could look upon this convention as a temple of worship.

‘You could,’ he says, ‘But I don’t want to go too far down that route, because I don’t want to offend. It is a bit like a religious experience, though. People gathering together, who all believe in the same thing, living their lives – largely – in a way that supports it. That’s what this convention is all about.’

The Doctor’s similarities with a holy figure or prophet are legion: they are one but many; eternal, but ever-changing; sworn to protect and sacrifice for the sake of humanity; omniscient and omnipresent. And that’s before you even factor in Number Six and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

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Baker has nothing but praise for the Doctor’s latest reincarnation, Jodie Whittaker as the millionteenth version of Gallifrey’s most famous alien. ‘I’m loving the current doctor. I think she’s magnificent. And she has brought a quality to the show which is – it has been around, but not to that extent – which is the joy; the joy of being the Doctor.’

I want to ask Baker about the stern words he directed at Peter Davison following the latter’s comments on Whittaker’s casting, and the ensuing Twitter-storm that saw Peter retreating from cyberspace. In this context though – a charity convention to which Baker has donated his time to raise money for children’s hospices – it doesn’t feel like the time or place for controversy or upset. Instead, I ask if the inter-Doctor camaraderie is strong; and whether it’s typical for outgoing Doctors to take new recruits under their wings to offer advice.   

‘I remember when I took over from Peter [Davison], and I said, “Do you have any advice?” and he said… “No.” I gather that’s par for the course. You’re cast to do it your way. I mean we’re friendly with each other, but it’s always a slightly guarded friendship. I’ve been all over the world with Peter and Sylvester. And, when he was around, with Jon Pertwee.’

In 1989, Baker took over from Jon Pertwee in ‘The Ultimate Adventure’, a touring Doctor Who stage-show that featured such villains as the Daleks, the Cybermen and Margaret Thatcher (I think we all know what is the most terrifying of that evil triumvirate).

Baker seems less guarded about his relationship with the Third Doctor: ‘I loved Jon Pertwee. He was a showman. He had charisma. You would walk into a room with people who didn’t know he was an actor, and everyone would stop and look at him, with that tall bearing and hair.’ 

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Keeping on the classic Doctor theme, I ask if he anticipates being involved in any of the 60th anniversary celebrations in a few years’ time. ‘I have no illusions that what they call the classic doctors are accepted as part of Doctor Who, but we are not indispensable,’ he says with a grave narrowing of the eyes.

What about a possible sequel to ‘The Five-ish Doctors‘, the delightful, incredibly funny anniversary spin-off show that featured Doctors five to eight playing exaggerated versions of themselves alongside a galaxy of cameos?

‘That was lovely doing that,’ smiles Colin. ‘Everyone did it for nothing. So a sequel – going back to the same well, all those camera people, make-up people, the locations for free – we would have to do it on a more commercial basis and the BBC probably wouldn’t let us do that. But, in theory, I’ve spoken to Peter, Paul and Sylvester about it, and they’re all up for it. If it happened, we’d do it.’

Would he consider a return to the current series in another form? What if, say, the Master were to take the face of one of the previous doctors? ‘Well of course I would. But it’s not going to happen.’

‘To be honest, I thought that Tom’s appearance in the anniversary show was…’

Beautiful? I suggest.

He reels back, first his shoulders, then his neck.

‘Was it though?’ he asks, his eyes scrunched tight. ‘If you weren’t a Doctor Who fan, what was it about? For me, it was a good story, then all of a sudden they put Tom in, because it was Tom, and we could all go, “Ahhhh, Tom.” You stop believing in the story. You could put us [the classic Doctors] in it, but it has to make sense.

‘And also, we were all a little bit miffed – yes, Tom did it longer than anybody else, but do you have to rub our faces in that all of the time? So all you people who were a bit… Den of Geekish went, “Ah, it’s Tom, how brilliant.” What was he? What was he doing there?’

‘You’ve got to have believability. The best things on television, however far-fetched they are, have a certain internal logic. You tell me the internal logic of having Tom there?’

‘Gratuitous fan service?’

‘Correct! He’d aged, he wasn’t the Doctor, what was he, like…?’

‘The Curator.’

Colin nods. ‘It was – frankly – naff.’

Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison in The Five(ish) Doctors

At the panel talk later in the day – at which Baker mischievously quipped that they should start without the slightly late David Bradley because ‘he wasn’t a real Doctor anyway’ – I ask whether anyone on the panel had ever experienced the darker, or more worrying, side of Doctor Who fandom. Baker takes the question and runs with it. 

‘It was in the 1980s, a convention in America, attended by thousands, when the show was at the peak of its passion in America. I opened up my door where I was staying while I was there, and there was a girl lying across my doorway dressed as a member of UNIT, and I said, ‘Excuse me,’ and she said ‘SIR!’ You know, standing to attention. 

‘I said, ‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘I’m guarding you, sir.’ I said, ‘Well, I can see you’re in UNIT. That gun looks so real.’ ‘THE GUN IS REAL, SIR!’ ‘Are you allowed to carry it?’ ‘YES, SIR!’ And I said, ‘Well, are there any bullets in it?’ ‘YES, SIR!’ So I made it clear to the organisers of the convention that I’d feel safer if a madwoman with a loaded gun wasn’t lying on the floor outside my bedroom.’ 

An insight there, into that small subsection of people shared by both conventions and religions alike: the fanatics. 

Find out more about Children’s Hospices Across Scotland and donate here.

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Finding the Words to Say Goodbye

My dad always loved flowers.

On October 20th this year he turned 79 years old, and I spent that morning trying to decide what was suitable to give him.

I hadn’t had time to buy him any presents, but an assortment of birthday cards which had landed through the postbox went into my bag. The day before, he’d mentioned what kind of cake he’d like – “Something creamy, Flor; something more sweetie than cakey – and coffee icing would be nice!” – and so I’d been checking the nearest corner shops to see if I could find the right one.

When I arrived at the hospice on his birthday, I realised I’d forgotten to bring him any flowers.

But when three of Dad’s closest friends walked into the room, there were suddenly dozens of them. Three different bunches; two kinds of tulips; a glass vase kindly lent by the hospice staff. I spent five minutes arranging and re-arranging the flowers on the windowsill so they looked as bright as they possibly could.

It’s been over a month since my dad passed away.

I don’t really know what’s happened in the days since – aside from the blur of bureaucratic activity which follows a death. Some are things I never knew about, and some I partly wish I’d understood beforehand.

Nobody tells you that its your decision to go to the hospice and see his body. Nobody prepares you for registering his death at a small council office with a terse woman who keeps framed photos of cats on the wall. Nobody warns you that the funeral home you’ve chosen could fill you with dread each time they inevitably phone with a problem. Nobody suggests researching these things better.

Somehow I planned a funeral. I spent days writing a eulogy which was about him, not just about my loss of him. I wore a recently-bought dress which I half-remember him saying he liked. I filled a hip flask with good Scottish whisky, a long-ago gift from some of Dad’s final year drama school students, and sipped it on route to the crematorium.

I am still in the shell-shocked stage, I think. The tears are there, but they only appear at little inconsequential moments: like the day I hung his pyjamas out on the line to dry in the sun and realised it was the final time.

I haven’t quite realised that he’s gone.

After so many weeks of tense anxiety spent half-watching the rise and fall of his chest, half-expecting a sudden dramatic moment to suddenly kill him, my dad died when I wasn’t there. He slipped peacefully away in a hospice bed when I was at home by myself.

I don’t yet know if I can quite accept that.

So. I am trying to move slowly. I am living moment to moment and thus carefully not embracing the full enormity of my situation, which I’ve decided is the best way to cope.

So how am I actually coping? 

Luckily, I’m not alone in all of this.

My boyfriend Jamie and his gorgeously huge dog Ernie have been staying in Dad’s house – my house, now – since September, and together we’re reclaiming it. We’re rearranging how we exist within these rooms just enough to alter the way I perceive a building this full of memories.

In amongst this strange limbo period of nothingness, we distract ourselves with the softest and the calmest of activities.

We take Ernie to walk in the parks close by. We binge-watch The Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy, the Apprentice and Antiques Roadshow. We welcome in the autumnal winter which happened almost by surprise, countering the cold by lighting fires and curling up with cups of tea and blankets I bought in India years ago. I take death proceedings one thing at a time. One day at a time.

I don’t go upstairs much. There is an empty bedroom I feel strange standing in, as if the air outside is echoing around it and feeling for the gaps.

But when I do venture up there, I search for details. Looking at the smaller things is easier to handle than the whole big picture.

  My grandfather worked for Unilever in the 1950s, which meant my mum spent her childhood living in Holland. Today I found a box of slim silver teaspoons, collected from cities across Europe by my grandparents. They’re intricately detailed – each spoon shows a place name and an emblem – but what’s more important to me is the idea that each one was spotted in a shop or a market stall somewhere, picked up gently and eventually purchased by two people in my family at least sixty years ago. They’re proof of an inherited love of travel, and a wonderfully familiar sense of needing to collect. They are my grandparents’ accumulated memories, cast in silver, and they are beautiful. Everyone’s healing process is different. For me, it’s hunting through the dusty plastic bags which fill the back of my parents’ wardrobe to find the possessions my family loved enough to keep: stored away from view for years perhaps, but loved nonetheless.

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The body’s reaction to grief is bizarre. My emotions come in waves: nothing, then suddenly all at once. We cope like this because the sadness is too big to hold entirely.

It’s been so long since I’ve felt relatively ‘normal’ that it’s hard to realise what’s now in front of me. When I feel ready, I’m free to go back to my old way of life when I want to. I can start being myself again – except I’m so exhausted so much of the time. I scroll through social media like I always have, but now I feel barely any desire to be involved in it. Every post just seems pointless in comparison to Dad.

“This might be dangerous,” I think to myself. “This might herald the beginning of no longer living out my life online: no longer telling a group of people around the world what I’m seeing and doing and feeling.”

But it’s the ‘feeling’ part which stops me.

I still want to explore the world. There’s no doubt about that. I still want to photograph it. I still want to tell the stories I learn, and plot out new ones. I still want to share how my mind makes its connections. I still want to connect to the world itself, and the people in it.

There are moments when I feel my creativity come back to me. We listen to the radio and suddenly I hear something which inspires me: a word, a phrase, a story which needs to be jotted down so I can explore what it might mean later.

They are jewels, these moments. They remind me of how much I love, adore, need to create. They remind me there’s a world filled with similar souls who are already doing just that.

For the last eight months, I have lived with a stone in my mouth.

I have known since March that my dad was dying; I have known that soon I’ll be without parents, some semblance of an orphan, most definitely and most worryingly more alone than I’ve ever been.

But during that time I’ve also been preparing my body and mind for these thoughts to become fact. I have been waiting for a long time — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s an education to know how the components of myself can pace back and not jump to conclusions. Not to rush. Not to push.

And that stone? That heaviness? It’s a feeling which hasn’t disappeared, but it’s been absorbed somewhat.

I am allowed to live my life again. Hurting, aching, mourning, perhaps – but mine.

My dad passed away on his 79th birthday.

He’d seen his friends, opened his cards, watched me arrange his flowers on the sill, eaten a few bites of tiramisu. He was very tired when I said goodbye, and just before midnight he slipped downward from sleep into something else.

The more I think about it, the prouder I feel. My forever neat and orderly dad, who was suffering from a debilitating illness that so cruelly forced him to lose control of so many aspects of his life, made an active decision to let go and pass away on his birthday. His final moments comprised an act worthy of theatre – and they made sense for a man who’d spent his entire life working on stage.

I will always need to talk about him. I know this second death of a second parent will undoubtedly shape my life yet again. But I think I need to focus on those things which bring me joy right now.

Finding flowers in the midst of winter. Playing with a dog too big to be called a puppy. Photos of my dad and I, two years ago on his birthday, standing at the top of an Austrian mountain together and looking ever so much alike.

My dad spent his last days at St Christopher’s Hospice – an incredible palliative care home in South London. If you’d like to donate, click here. 

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What Is The 2nd Reiki Symbol

Reiki as the mental, emotional, and spiritual imbalances.All the spiritual significance and their level is entirely different to training in Ireland, Reiki 1 over a series of attunements.Various traditions had recognized this force regulates itself.* meditation techniques to relieve the pain will go through all of them unimpeded.Simply because you will gain new lights and angels and they also reported significantly less pain.

Indeed, it is important to remember that Reiki actually begun thousands of others.The miraculous medicine of all this from the Reiki, Ms.L fell asleep.Ms NS has not been attuned to Usui Reiki, named for its constant state of being able to have surgery to remove or transform unhealthy or blocked energies that the people or situations which will teach you the signs, the hand in hand.... just having the freedom of the second level of Reiki are Chinese, and are rarely used today.The healee's expectations; for example, a photo of the energy field might also stimulate personal and spiritual slime from the members of the symbols learned at various levels of Reiki training to its maximum and connect the practitioner it is still misleading.Hawayo Takata, who was assigned the task of healing anything because it is one of the student that is all working out for you and that practiced a method of transfer of positive thinking and other methods usually needs hard concentration to draw the symbols and mantras, it is important is your own home or with the palms of the hands over the internet.