being and becoming in the world
In a letter to his friend Stephen Bann, the artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay once concluded “Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough”. This is a feeling … Continue reading ‘Sometimes my wee best seems just not good enough’
When in Brechin on Sunday I noticed this Newspaper headline outside a local newsagent. It blazoned “Smyllum Nuns’ Legal Fees Hit £300,000”. This reminded me of a visit that I … Continue reading “Nuns’ legal fees”
The photograph above if of Jenners Department Store, Edinburgh. The following words are borrowed from Ali Smith (‘Winter‘) and Evelyn Waugh (‘Decline and Fall’): The film “An interior of others” … Continue reading An interior of others
