Did anyone else ever feel annoyed with those blue Counsel books as a trainee solicitor? Why weren’t there any margins in them? I had become so used to writing in pads with margins, I couldn’t fathom a good reason for why they should not have one, other than that maybe this was just another way in which solicitors and barristers could claim a difference from the common crowd. Digging a bit deeper, what meanings get created when you or I or anyone else draws a line which creat

I remember seeing this picture before and thinking it was a photo shop thing. Reading about how it is a real sculpture by Londoner Paige Bradley, which emerged out of an act of self vandalism, makes it so much more powerful as a metaphor for how we are as humans, both shadow and light. http://paigebradley.com/news/seeing-the-brilliance-through-the-cracks/ Here is a poem I wrote on a similar theme, feeling into the source of our own brilliance and the beginning of a different