Between two skies and towards the night.
Alvia was sitting on a thick branch of a tall tree somewhere near the middle of the forest. She had been tirelessly feeding her chicks all night and it wasn't over yet. She had laid six eggs a full moon and a half ago and to her surprise, they'd all hatched, and now she had six hungry owlets to feed.
Hey you, you like guitar right? No seriously, do you? I'm asking because guitar music has never been more out of style than right now. Hip hop, dance, pop, folk even, are all riding high, but rock and roll? Forget it. People are done.
As you know, on Wednesday 6 January, a mob of pro-Trump supporters invaded the US Capitol building in Washington DC, angry about the alleged (and highly contested) "election fraud" as Congress moved to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the November ‘20 election. [1]
You've been consistently lied to and it’s still happening. You’re lied to so much and with such conviction, the lies have become reality, they have morphed into innate truths and are consumed without question.
I didn't enjoy wine for the longest time. Along with olives, pickled onions and grapefruit I figured it was just one of those things you just grew into, grown-up foodstuffs to be consumed by grown-ups guests at dinner parties while talking about books, art and the stock market.
When I was 23, I finished university and got an admin job in local government. My friends, on the other hand, went travelling.
My job evaporated under the glare of the global pandemic. 19 years of corporate diligence ended by an invisible virus that side-stepped borders and overturned social convention.
Here's my ultimate gym playlist. I've cultivated and curated it over a number of years. It's fine-tuned, each song has a meaning, each track fulfils a role. The Spotify preview only shows 100 songs, but it's over 300 long, a perfect 26 hours of hard-earned music that you'll never have to stray from again. This is your one-stop motivational fix.