Late fruit again

Late ripe raspberry
picked, eaten, sweet.
One overripe left for birds.

Late Fruit

I picked a late ripe raspberry in the garden today, and eat it. Another one, overripe, and a couple of not quite ripe ones, I left on the bush. The one for the birds, the others for a later picking.

Seaford November 2012

On the train back home, just after sunset:

Cattle black as night
loom through curtain of dusk drawn
across water meadows.

After the dream

The first small thing I wrote in ages. It arrived after I woke from a dream.
I tried to put it into a Haiku.

In my dream your eyes
saw me. By day I saw you
graze in greener grass.

Trying to embed an Audioboo on Tension

I am testing something. I try to embed an audioboo on excessive tension which I published on the Radio Lewes site, for members of the Oyster Project. I want to see whether I can share this with a wider audience.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/350021-magdalena-portmann-alexander-technique-exercise-18-on-excessive-tension

To be a professional.

This is a quote from A.L. Carr's novel A Month in the Country. Penguin Books, 2000

You know how it is when a tricky job is going well because you're doing things the way they should be done, when you're working in rhythm and feel a reassuring confidence that everything's unravelling naturally and all will be right in the end. That's about it: I knew what I was doing - it's really what being professional means.

Nonsense about tendencies

Some nonsense I wrote in response to someone going on about having rather too many tendencies, and considering this as a fault.....

Having tendencies is ok 
as long as you know you have got them.
Having tendencies is ok 
as long as you know how to change them.

I have tendencies, you have tendencies,
we have tendencies, they have tendencies -
there is an endless amount to be had of them.

Counting them could be a tendency.
A meta type of tendency. 
And counting those is a tendency -
a meta meta tendency. 
And where do you think this all might end?
Just wherever you decide to stop and spend
less time on counting your tendencies.