I bought a book because I liked it's shape. Sky High by Germano Zullo illustrated by Albertine. I do wonder how you write a book like it?

Dyslexia is my I like and enjoy mine

On Christmas day I got to open presents and I got a copy of "The Very Hungry Zombie: A parody" It is good laughed out loud. Remember Dyslexia is a blast.

So I am wildly in love with my wife she is just the best that has happened to me, and a daughter well, show is such a great writer. She does the showing up at her laptop and does it everyday. So I love them and I have fallen in love with a Mongolian folk band I don't know what they are singing about hearing them just makes me smile, in that stupid grin on my face kind of way that love makes us have. Dyslexia is a fun way to see the world enjoy

There moments when you wonder what you get from reading a book, sometimes it is another world, a place of escape, a delight to have. I find myself having finished "Bitterseed" The words of Edgar Rice Boroughs that appear in a extra on the John Carter Bluray " He wanted a part of the action that these rubbishy writers were getting. Bitterseed is ok but it does feel like damned with faint praise. Must get my own work out there sometime so I can be damn by faith praise to. Dyslexia Rocks Have fun

So there is a series called revolution on the telly net etc. where ever you encounter it. IT is the worst suckiest stuff I have ever encountered, this week.

I'll come to why in a bit, there are a set of books that I read many years ago by John Christopher "The Sword of the Spirit" Trilogy. Post apocalyptic Britain and the demise of technology, and then the secret network.... Oh go and find it, read it it is rather good and enjoyable. Also This might be the same John Christopher who wrote "the death of grass" which is a book that my father has recommended to to me. Must pick that up sometime soon.

So anyway it would appear that a the parents in most post-apocolypic future are quite awful parents, living by outmoded liberal capitalistic let everybody be nice and loving so they can come and kill me and assault my friends and family.

In the words of Guy Fleegalman "have you never watched the show?"

It is almost as if they very people we watch have never read a book, been to a library, watched a movie.  Still I'll not watch it again only watched the pilot it just makes me spit feathers. that doesn't taste pleasant in ones mouth.

Still enjoy one dyslexia as I do find a happy spot in the world and love it. have fun

So I finished "Stone Father" by Orson Scott Card, I liked it, I do believe that i is as Mr. Scott Card said in the back of "The Lost Gate" He though t that it was some of his best writing. I do find my self wondering how I find more in this world. I will give it some thought. Also I do think it is very good work. I liked it, nice enjoyable world peopled by characters you want to succeed. I am a dyslexic and I like it. Hope yours is as much fun as mine. Enjoy the world it is worth it.

The Tales of Ebenezer and Vaughan Playce: The Eros Mannequin. I has begun my next story or is it tale. Fleshed out the plot shape. For my own personal preference I use, the writing tip given by Robert Rodriguez "Rebel without a Crew". Using cards to block a moment to place who is there and what happens. I find it most useful to create a beginning. Then comes the next bit it is not hard, you just have to turn up.  I am turning up every day for a while to do this one. Remember dyslexia is not a hinderance, it is how I see the world and I like this one.

Have a great day 

So I have put another book down. I put it down because it hasn't worked for me. It was going great right up to the nazi psychic had to walk through London. There was no sense of menace or arrogance or impending doom as he draws near to the hero's family and life and I don't need dull in my life. so I have put "Bitterseeds" down. I went back to reading "Make it so" The book on sci-fi interfaces. Which is completely and utterly captivating. I am enjoying my dyslexia at the moment. Have fun.

So the door is knocked early in the day, the excitement raises your heart rate, just a hint not much. But when my delightful wife comes into the study holding a package from Amazon, Then when I open it roughly because it has a book in it. Oh then it is a book I have been waiting for. I put all my other reading aside,   I am rather enjoying my other reading "Bad Religion" "Eureka" "The Potato Factory" by Bryce Courtenay. So I can on this my day off set about reading Lois McMaster Bujould's new book "Captain Vorpatril's Alliance" So I am taking a short break from sit on the sofa to blog this bit Then back to reading.

Remember dyslexia is how someone see the world are then gets involved in it. I like my dyslexia. Enjoy yours and the world to. Have a great day it is your turn.

So I have just finished "The Lost Gate" by Orson Scott Card. It is good most enjoyable. but As someone who writes the funnest part is the afterward. Where he unpacks the process and origin of the story I have just read. It is so neat to understand that this world he has written about, was not a one hit and it was done job. It has taken years to put it together. In various forms and editions as he work to make a satisfying moment for himself. To tell a story that stands for itself and it's own internal reality. It does, once you get used to both worlds. Do wonder if there is a next in this series. I have tracked down a previous entry into this world "Stonefather" so I'll read that when it gets here.

In the meantime I shall begin reading "Eureka" by Peter Fitzsimons or Keith Windscuttle "The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume 1". Failing that Ian Tregillis "Bitterseeds"

Oh so many books and so much time, I like my life,  I like my God, I like my family, I like my dyslexia, I hope you like your day do enjoy it, have a good one.

I am still reading books and liking them, from the library and buying them. so library books "coffee love" 50 ways to drink your java.  I shall be trying a some drinking tips from it tomorrow.

Inside Apple the fruit you eat revealed. No it is about the mac people and their company. You need to read "steal like an artist" it is so good i have read it about three time now and will add it to the list of books I read each year. NowI am back to this blogging lark. Have a great day, remember I am dyslexic and it will shape me yes but I will not be stopped I will work round it as that is the way forward I don't hide it ever. What is the point of that!! Have a great day someone has to

So been reading again, to be held by a title and to not be disappointed it is this one "Emperor Mollusk versus  the sinister brain" by A. Lee Martinez I Like this it is a bed time reading joy.  It has a lovely cover. On a totally different note is this "the fabrication of Aboriginal history" Volume One by Keith Windschuttle. learning more about a history that is this recent is challenge. As this has to change you, you cannot be unmoved when these are in the corporate memory of the still breathing.  Will seee how we go with that.

Also Tim Winton who I met a long time ago at the greenbelt festival in the United Kingdom. He wouldn't remember, as I was one among many. But his faith and words were so cool. "Dirt Music" a gift for a friend.

Picked up a couple of graphic novels "American Vampire Volume 1" and "The Mice Templar Volume 1" Picked up a couple of ex-library books "Arise Sir Jamie Oliver the biography" and an cook book "Walkabout Chefs"

Finally " The secret language of leadership" by Stephen Denning I'll let you know how it sometime later. As now I have to read contacts and reports. Don't forget that Dyslexia is a thing I enjoy, have a great day

So have finished the book about Osama bin Laden being killed, "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen It was kind of gripping. I like his style he was open and had the right amount of secrecy. There are things to learn from the people who live and work in this community. Well worth a read. "Make it so" the interface design book is so cool. I have been away on break from work and I have watched some television (it is one of the things I do when on holiday) and the design of a get more hair on your head advert, it was as if they had read this book. or at least the opening two chapters on how to make you designs look kind of sciencey and futuristic. They did a great job of that, but I have enough hair on my head. So not sold on the product.

Do have to tell you I shall be reading more  G K Chesterton "Orthodoxy" is really really good. It pokes holes that whole "The Matrix" worldview, nice to read.  He does put together a totally superb sentence loaded with ideas. He doesn't hold back it is a joy read someone who lays into people nicely!!! I don't know who Mr McCabe is but G K, is not struck on him "I think that Mr. McCabe is a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies" To see where it fits in G K argument you need to find page 39 of "Orthodoxy" But it is a great sentence.

Also found two books Orson Scott Card "The Lost Gate" and my first J G Ballard book "Empire of the Sun"

And returning from being away the copy of "the out of bounds church?" by Steve Taylor was waiting in the letter box. As I write this "Streets of Fire: a rock and roll fable is playing" just love five dollar movies. Now I embrace my dyslexia, use yours and enjoy the world. Have a great day.

So my bed time reading, is "Make It So" a book on interface design. It is so cool buy it read use it to change how you see the world and interact with it. Also track down a rather neat magazine "Dumbo Feather" I like it. It is nicely pushy. Worth finding remember dyslexia is a great way to see the world, and live in it. Have a great day.

Visited a mate in hospital yesterday, stopped in a bookshop (Dymocks) picked a couple of books for him, 1001 battles that changed the course of history and volume one of Winston Churchill's world war two account. For myself a long time ago I read Bob Woodward's account of the life and death of John Belushi. Total enjoyed that, so having had that experience I picked up what I guess is his new one The Price of Politics, I take an interest in this stuff because of an old and dear friend who taught me this stuff matters thank Des. I am Dyslexic and very good at it. What are you good at? Have a  good day someone has two.

So my in-laws are here from the UK and I have been given the books they read on the plane flight over. So both of the new Jack Reacher novels a added to the list so much reading so much fun to be had as ever. Don't forget dyslexia I like mine hope you like yours have a great day. Oh my daughter has taken Howl's moving castle to bed. won't see that for a while.  

So it has been a cool day to day for books, picked up another Vince Flynn i haven't read " Separation of Power" then this book "Solomon Kane" a novel by Ramsey Campbell; based on the screenplay written by Micheal J. Bassett; based on the character created by Robert E. Howard. It is a movie tie-in  book and I bought it because I watch the trailer and the main character sounds just like my mum. For me it is the funnest thing ever for me. As you don't know my mum. "Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones never read anything by her so looking forward to this one. Also "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens.


Then through the post these two books arrived: "Make It So: leadership lessons from Star Trek" by Wess Roberts and Bill Ross; and a 1907 forth edition copy of "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton.

So many books and I have the time to read them. I am dyslexic and liking it, have a great day as I am.

Oh I am quite liking how "Existence" David Brin is unfolding in a very pleasant way, It is improving as I get further into the book. The distance between character and events is closing.

so I am up it is before 7-00 am and the sunshines brightly through the window, it is the long weekend a bank holiday, a time of great rejoicing will occur in my household, we will dance and sing just because we can. We will in the end rest and read a book and writing and creativity will happen. Today is a good day to be a dyslexic. I like being a dyslexic. So back to writing about trolls and fairy creatures, freedom and liberation and the cost of getting to that freedom. Enjoy today because you can.

So bought some more books, The Oopsatoreum by Shaun Tan, anything by him is utterly brilliant. I pick his stuff up anytime I find one I don't have. The Starbucks Experience has arrived as well Like it as well then the one about the shooting of Bin Ladin. The big news for me anyway is Existence I have persevered with it. A I have just run into a great moment in the book, where the geneticist use the language of faith to describe his reason and purpose for his work. I enjoyed the words and image it made in my head.

Also bought William Gibson, Zero History I like it and I read this "She watched him trough the rear window as the taxi pulled away. Stout and bearded, he turned now in Greek Street,......" It is just odd an odd sentence.

Oh the other book is No Easy Day, Mark Owen.

So I am reading books lots of books I am really enjoying books so many books to read so little time. So now have a nice copy of a three volume illustrated Lord of the Rings. Then another Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. I think Already my daughter snaffled that one. Amped by Daniel H Wilson is really neat just don't like the news item inserts, I could do without that bit. Just being lost in a book is another world I like.

I am writing again, using a calendar to keep track  of the dates and times of my tale, not real time but as a means of keeping the sequences in order. I'll see how it goes. Remember dyslexia is agood thing in my life. have a great day someone should.

So I am struggling with "Throne of the Crescent Moon" So of the back story motivation for characters is done in a way that I find slightly dull. What is told to me is not dull but I want it to be better I am liking it mostly and would hunt down Saladin Ahmed other works. Just for fun. I am going to enjoy today. I have new books old books, Over the top of it all I have in my library I now have "Steal like an Artist" it pushes me forward in my thinking quite a helpful book. Do find it and enjoy. Use your local library, they are such cool places to find what a book addict needs, We are called "readers". Dyslexia rocks, I like mine, do you have one. enjoy your day.

So today got off to a great start, the parcel man delivered today a book with a brilliant title "Steal like an Artist" Austin Kleon. With this book I have not a single hint of disappointment. It has just confirmed that some of my general habits are good for my creativity.

Also yesterday I went shopping with my daughter we bought some books and they were "Amped" by Daniel H. Wilson; "Zero History" William Gibson; and to finish with : "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. Nearly finished :Throne of the Crescent Moon, then onward to new fictional horizons.

Also read the Bible not fiction, and some commentaries on the book/letter of James, all in preparation for Sunday. Dyslexia is what I have and I like it. Have a great day, someone has to!

So I after having my evening dose of great soup, thought to myself wonder what my family and I are reading or have read recently, these are from our dinning room table, Lee Child: The Affair; Malcolm Gladwell: What the Dog Saw; Jonah Lehrer: Imagine; Devils in the detail: A style Guide to Patterns and Applications; Brian Jacques: Salamanderstron: Catherynne M. Valente: The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making; Lydia: The Unicorn, The Prince, and the Dragon, Lord Dunsany: The King of Elfland's Daughter, A Prayer Book for Australia, Brook Eastman: Howlsage; Alan Marshall: I Can Jump Puddles; Justin Randall: Changing Ways; Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write; David Server, Jackson Lanzing, Joe Suitor: Freakshow; John Cluade Bemis: The Prince who fell from the Sky; Lynley Dodd: Schnitzel von Krumm's Basketwork; Lynley Dodd: Slinky Malinki Catflaps, Lynley Dodd: Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack, Lynley Dodd: Slinky Malinki, Open the Door, Lynley Dodd: Hairy Maclary's Bone;  And Finnally Michelle Knudsen: The Dragon of Trelian. So what are you reading? Remember Dyslexia is a great thing I like mine. Have a great day

So I have been, waiting for some books. They have arrived and I have read most of them, Redshirts by John Scalzi. I enjoyed it most of the time, It would make a great movie. So there were three books of the "Wired" magazine reading list that last one Myke Cole's Book Shadow OPs, That was good now I want the next one. This next one is the surprise Saladin Ahmed "Throne of the Crescent Moon" Don't get caught out by the cover, It is better it looks. It is so cool, I has drawn me in. It has so really good sentences. This is one is one of my current favourites.

"Taking a last long look around the bookshelves and bureaus of his townhouse, Adoulla himself felt something similar."

One of the other characters Raseed has just sharpen a sword and Adoulla feels about books the same as Raseed about his sword. To learn more you'll need to get the book. Oh and this other sentence, is just so neat at showing lost dreams and hopes, and a life, lived,

"Instead of a blissful marriage, he had monstrosities on his mind and a pile of "should haves" pressing down upon his soul."

I like this book, it is great read. find it enjoy it. Dyslexia rules I like mine. have a great day.

Yesterday I bought two books one was  the second part of some kind of longer story, Brent Weeks The Blinding Knife, been so long between books going to need to read the first one again,( The Black Prism) just to catch up with the characters, plot etc. The most rewarding thing is having my daughter say out loud " I have read some Dickens, I must read some more".  So being a good father and husband I bought the cloth bound penguin edition of "Great Expectations" The smile on her face will make me by at least one maybe two more editions in this set of books never read any Charles Dickens myself. I may just have to, read one so I can keep up, with my own daughter. Still reading, nope, begun reading Dallas Willard "Personal, Public Reality?" Great introduction not always enjoyed his work but this has a good hook into it. So will pursue it further. Have a great day and remember dyslexia is a very nice thing for me. hope you like yours too.

So I have now finished, Philip K. Dick's "We can remember it for you wholesale" it is a great story. Do  find it. The shape of it is way above any of the movies. In fact the movies don't even fill in the missing parts of the original short story. The layering of a fantasy life and reality it just a joy to encounter. So to have saved the world by living is such a great idea. Wish more people did it. And, and  I didn't give the end away. I'm not that mean to ruin another man's story or life. Dyslexia rules. Have a great day.

breakfast reading

I was having breakfast, enjoying it and the really enjoyable author Lynley Dodd, so much so I read five of her books. Her use of tension, drama, whimsy are captivating. Delighting my heart and life,  so I read them each twice. now I shall read the Bible and enjoy that as much if not more. Dyslexia is a fine thing go and have a great day read a book. Write a story begin a blog talk to someone you love much.

Well the reading and writing goes on. Philip K. Dick is still a writer who even after all the years reading him still gets to astonish me. I find he draws me into a world that is moves between light and dark far more often than any film has. Mind you I enjoy most of the films but his words are so much better every time.
Dyslexia is a useful thing. have a good day

So what have you done in the last week, well I have bought a few books, Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson, It was a great, fantastic to read it is so go to have someone who like and knows his subject really really well. It is beautiful constructed go find a copy enjoy, I did.  Then all the way from Canada comes Philip K. Dick: The Preserving Machine and other stories. Why this one I watched the remake of Total Recall. Which did suck. So I wondered how close it was to the original story; We Can Remember it for You Wholesale.  It is set on Mars, How cool is that for more then go and find a copy. for yourself. I like Mark A. Noll Jesus Christ and the life of the Mind, read heaps by him and enjoy it. I like his church history work. Looking forward to this one.  Also D.A. Carson purchased today as well. Going to enjoy these.

Most of my writing and thinking this week has been a round my sermon for Sunday. But I have also been think through story ideas. Some of which will occur in my daughters work. As someone who doesn't swear I used the phrase " a head full of bat spit" to describe a terrible Australian car driver. She was in fits of laughter, a truly delightful sound and feeling.

Remember dyslexia is a good way to see the world. Have a great day.

Been writing other things and not posting. Which is great as I have thought of an ending to a story that has been on the dictaphone for an age now. In those dull moments in meetings I look like I am paying attention and taking notes, oh but I am not not I am plotting the down fall of villains and the rise of heroes. It is the best reason not to have a smart phone or ipad in a meeting. holding a pen and having real paper. means that you are engaged in the meeting in the room an not on the net. or texting but you really are pay attention. but do remember to keep one ear out for what is happening around you. You just have to speak!! Not been caught out yet but you never know.

Reading again for myself, rather than for some project or other reason just for fun. Servant Leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf and Existence David Brin is my breakfast read. At the end of the day I close with Myke Cole, The one about Soldiers and magic and war and other planes of existence. It is beside the bed and I just cannot be bothered to fetch it. Shadow OPs? could be. But I am enjoying it.

Dyslexics are really nice people hire one today. have a great day as I am going to.

I finished reading "I am legend" by Richard Matheson this morning. I wondered why it was called that, now, I know.  I find myself with one question, a thought. Is this were the idea of describing people as legend begins. If so then it is a misunderstanding, as Robert Neville's understanding would place himself as the last of his kind a complete and utter scourge to what is coming next in the development of mankind. I guess that calling someone legend now may carry a different meaning now. Just wonder where it began. But not interested enough to find out.

However a book I ordered has arrived and now I read it Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole. Started it already!

Dyslexia is a good thing in my life hope it is in yours, have a great day.

so It is not just about reading books sometime it is about having books books that lift and inspire you to be better and sometimes that is just in your own head. There is one place I have not blogged about that is a total wonderful source for books, yes the library. Are you a member of one? I am a member of two different ones. I have set days of the week when I go. Wednesday and Friday library days. it is where I get to test drive books and yes I have found great books and then gone and brought them they were that good. usually they are design books the ones in the upper price range. So anyway as reading to, I am working my "I am legend" what a fabulous bleak book I have not read such brilliant hope stealing words as these in an age, just when it should lift you it brings another level in the pit that Robert Neville is in. I am learning that both the movies based on this story were far to hope filled!! Still some of the pictures are library books some are the ones I bought. Dyslexia is a good thing I like being one. have a good day

So finished Vince Flynn, now moved on to Richard Kadrey one of the black and white books I bought the other day. Half way through that. It is sad to have lost another great writer Ray Bradbury. So the other I am watching Ray Bradbury talking about ideas and writing everyday, those who inspired him. He talked briefly about Poe, and my daughter now wants to find and read some Poe and read in particular, The Raven. It has been found, read then liked. Very much, so I am told so I may have to read it myself. But It set me thinking, where do you find ideas, What do you do? So Here is an idea that I am currently working through, "Troll Beads" Where do they come from? This has lead to the creation of a whole world and everything in it. The first draft go at it was all first person and I don't think I did it very well. I'll post it on the website. Use the link It is called Pencil Boy and the Troll Folders. These are the works of a dyslexic. A Dyslexic who is happy with the world and enjoying it a whole heap. Enjoy your day.

So Mitch Rapp is killing people, in Cyprus, I grew up there. Richard Neville is fighting vampires, and educating himself in The use of microscopes. I am buying some books today I thought I would only buy books that had black and white covers. did fine until I got home  found the post office had delivered the one on colour. Oh well I was just a away to find a books I don't normally read. Not something based in some kind of phobia OCD deal. I am Dyslexic not anything else. Dyslexia is enough to enjoy. Have a good day.

So anyway this is the book what I bought yesterday. Oh and sadness is around Harry Harrison is dead. In respect to his memory, I shall read Bill the Galactic Hero then The Stainless Steel Rat. It will be a pleasure. Go and find anything he has written and remember a life. Dyslexia is just so rocking. Have a good day

I am doing well, today still reading "I am legend" I do like it I am helpless before his fallibility, his desire to live compared to his frustration at a lack of knowledge. I am finally reading a book that has the  best and appropriate use of a library, (won't tell you read the book). Oh I just would like one faithful rendition of a book into some other format. How cool a video game would "I am legend" make where you defeated vampires by being educated rather than brutal. Used a book or books to know things so you win, and played in real time. so it only went as fast as you could. Ohhh no that is real life. So back to real life off to read a book. Found a Vince Flynn I have not read in a second handbook shop that one or I am legend. Or both at the same time. Am I the only one who does that! Dyslexia is really neat, I like it, have a good day.

Still loving the internal bleakness that inhabits Robert Neville, all the things which have become cliches in Zombie tales are here. All of them done better here than any of the films. Find this story, "I am legend" by Richard Matheson. Some of the old stories are the good ones. New is not aways better or even an improvement!! So read something old today, I am also reading Winstone Churchill  "The Gathering Storm" Volume 1 of Six on the Second World War. I knew so little about this when I thought I knew so much. Then the old story written in stone. Quite literally celtic crosses from tomb slabs very different to the ones that are standing. Such fun to think about, difference and how it comes to exists. Dyslexia is a jolly fine thing, I like it very much. Have a good day enjoy.

So this Richard Matheson, my goodness, he totally captures aloneness, rather than loneliness "I am Legend" is better then either of the movies it has spawned. So go and find the book, I have read many books in my life but this is better than those books that are about, being a teenage boy and not fitting into the world. This is far more about a world that changes and leaves a man behind with no place or chance to fit. I am liking this one to. But then why waste time on books you don't like or enjoy. Life is to short for that, but not long enough to fully explore the delights of dyslexia. Have a great day, it could be your turn.

So as my night reading I an reading Malowe's Faust. That is fun enjoying that an oldie but a goodie. For fun I am also having watched "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston,  Then Will Smith in the remake retelling whatever they call it these days, "I am Legend"  So I have tracked down a copy of Richard Matheson's original story. Like it so for a great first paragraph, will finish that one today. Then something new tomorrow. It is the original story but with the Will Smith Movie Cover.  Have a good and remember dyslexia is quite a cool way to look at the world.

This morning at breakfast I finished, "embassytown". It is a very good read. A beautiful story of love betrayal life and death, and everything in-between. I like it being a story with an uneasy beginning, I like that you have to work you way into this world. Then China Mieville rewards with warmth depth and compassion. With people you care for and about. Then he allows you to be the outsider in the page. the internal, external observer. A willing participant, but the one who is changed is not just "spanish dancer." The whole book for me builds to a set of words that are on page 393. {now you might think that to go here will make it easier or shorter, but it won't so read your way there} These are words of change and revelation of a self, that is able and desires change, then does and wow. so go and read. Dyslexics are the nicest people ever. Enjoy life and have a good day.

So "embassytown" is Good. I like it. I am getting towards the end of it. I am totally enjoy the languages  lessons in a war zone. I like the whole idea of a writer China Mieville, writing about words as culture crossing drug, without knowing it? Words that cause (no cause is not strong enough) Words which by addiction extort worship devotion from not an individual but a community. I like some of his insight into the human condition, I think China Mieville would make a fun person to drink coffee with, as it would be most delightful to wrestle with words, meaning, simile and metaphor.  These are the building blocks to understanding, most things. Enjoy your day, dyslexia is a cool.  

So I am reading "Embassytown" I am enjoying it but find it a interesting mix of ideas. KInd of fun and oddly drawing of a world I don't fully grasp but worth it. I will myself at the end of it and be satisfied. I do find the placing of Christ in this world as intriguing. Also the picture of god-drug, as fun and the power of Language. Then there is this beautiful sentence "How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?" I like China Meiville's writing. Maybe I'll find some more. Keep enjoying Dyslexia I do. also enjoy the rest of your day' I will.

I am so enjoying "The Walking Dead" just caught myself and changed dad for dead. So I do wonder what the what a the walking dad would be a about. Still "the walking dead", has caused me to think about my very own Zombie story.  I find myself wondering about the values inside the walking dead. How does a desire to hold on to a pst that can not exist ever again, hamper and actively destroy the future you desire. The future you create.

How would you organise a society?
What would be the values you would communicate?
How would you communicate them?
What matters?
Why does it matter?
What will it look like?
Rule breakers?
Education matters!!!

These are the question if find rising in me as I watch then I get the desire to write for myself a future society that may exist under some dreadful circumstances. what would be next when you get past that moment of mere survival. It is at the moment it is called year 5. Dyslexia is so cool, enjoy your day.

So I have started "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"and now know where the first use of the word scientist was! Just so you know it was between William Whenhall and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in  debate, a moment that would be fun to see. I am enjoying it very much, thanks to my delightful wife for a great gift. Also today the very same delight wife, found part four of "Exile on the Planet of the Apes" both covers, as I am kind of geeky that way about Marc Laming's work, he did the insides,and they are great. I have some of his original art work hanging on my walls. He is so good I pay my own money for it!!

Also found a great bearded skull design around ZZ Top. Music I like a lot. Still reading Winston Churchill's "The Gathering Storm" Volume 1 of his six volume history of World War Two, There is so much I did not know about my own country and the setting and build up to that war. I found my bargain of the day a first edition of "Sole Survivor" by Dean Koontz in an Op Shop, a charity shop for those outside Australia.  Also I have included a picture of my most read book, The Bible this one is the English Standard Version. Which I like a lot, In a few moments I will go to bed and read "Embassytown" China Meiville I am get gently sucked in to another world, which is  I think the  best way for a world to creep up on you. Where I wonder is you favourite place to read to be transported away some where else? Dyslexia is a great thing, I like it. Enjoy your day.

So finished that one next I am reading "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" by Laura J. Snyder, I'll let you know how it goes. Oh yeah read the Bible today as well not all of it just a portion. Being Dyslexic has not stopped me doing things, well maybe one thing. Nope changed  my mind then dyslexia has not stopped me doing anything just makes somethings harder or take longer. I know that now so allow for it.

So I have finished another book Finally I have "Onward" by Howard Schultz. It will a book I return to again maybe three or four hundred times. It leans into me, in way that cause me to want to lift my, not my game because it is more than that, I causes me to lift my life and it's purpose. I like coffee, I enjoy coffee, and this is about so much more what would happen if this passion drive and commitment to a community, occurred and is lived out with a sense of personal purpose. I like this book you cam see how many sticky tabs it now has!! Find it read it particularly if you lead something. Even if that the only person you lead is you. Which you do, You did know that, right!

Oh and I get a light box studio thing for taking picture in, so they should look a little better, Dyslexics rule, enjoy your day.

I have finished William Gibson's "Distrust that Particular Flavour," I do like to read about writers talking about writing, I particularly enjoyed his end comments after each article. The insight as to the development of character and story and the real life right now inspiration of a future. Having recently read his, "Pattern Recognition" I did find myself thing about a single sentence in that book, of which I really like the back half!! What the words do in my I like( if you want to read it all it is page 66 about half way down the page) "...lateral thinking imp of the perverse, thirty something boy genius, seeker after truth (or at least functionality) in the markets of this young century" The reason I read was reading "Pattern Recognition"   is my dad left it behind as it took up to much space in his luggage to take back to England, so he left it behind, I read it, liked it. So next is China Mieville "Embassytown. Also "stick stones mud homes: Natural Living" Nigel Noyes, I find myself wonder what kind of mark, home, house, I wish to leave or have on the world. Mostly what will I do to have for my daughter to have beyond my life. On that happy, thought. enjoy your day. Dyslexia I find is so cool.

I like not knowing things, like why has my last post been formatted oddly or it when I look at it, I like not knowing electricity goes down a wire, I like not knowing how a microwave works. Something sI don't mind not knowing. Why something works is find when it works but when it doesn't I get to learn something new. The beginning of wisdom can be in knowing who to ask. Then you have to listen, really hard and ask more questions. Until you get it. Asking questions is not dumb. Sitting there and feeling stupid is dumb. If you don't ask you will not find out. So go and learn ask enjoy the interaction this day.

If you have books they need some where to live, and thanks to a retweet by Marc Laming I am thinking how do I get these, make these. I maybe ready to move on from the ikea ones I have now. I do like them. I do have some quite wobbly ones I have had from  B&Q for a number years. I thinkI will replace with these ones or similar from Tokyo. This could all be William Gibson's fault and I don't mind!! The shop they are in is so cool, go and find them at www.dezeen.com/2012/07/26/tokyos-tokyo, Go wild enjoy these. remember enjoy you day, oh and dyslexia is cool.

So page 180 William Gibson "Distrust that particular flavour" the chapter: My Own Private Tokyo These four words, "Folded paper. Junkie origami." four words and the art of exchange is shown in clarity that only seen by an outside observer, rather than an involved participant. A pusher and a junkie consumer, four words and a story is told, I have been reading William Gibson's works for a while now. Not one of his stories has translated into a gripping movie. I still watch them and find myself wondering where and how the choice to leave something out, has happened, rolling multiple characters and events into a single person and story arc. When it is on occasions the minor, lesser characters that draw us into the story. I think it might be the place where sometime we may appear. I haven't thought of myself as the hero, never wanted to be Frodo, or Neo, or Conan, or John Carter, or whoever you have thought of being. But I can do my bit to build a story in this world, I will be the friend someone needs at their worst or best moment, this will be at their moment of choosing, so how will you and I be ready? Enjoy your day, Dyslexics are the best find one see the world differently

I have had a great day spent it will some good friends who help me understand some things about me. I have commissioned a picture from a very talented artist Marc Laming I make sure that I pick up as much of his work as I can I do get him to draw up characters from some of my own stories. On the website a dyslexic tale you can get to it by the link. I have put Tuft ears the battle bear on it. He is a bear who fights a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I am post it a bit bit at a time as I write it.  In fact I'll stick the picture ink on here. I am so privileged to know so quite talented people who cause and help me to be better than I currently am. Marc does that for me.Thank you.  Others do this as well I tell you of them some other time.

William Gibson: Real Ideas

So anyway I pick William Gibson "Distrust that particular flavour". China a can wait. So I am reading William and it is just, awesome. I like how he uses words to make a world happen in my head. He is describing a real world with real ideas.  I like that he explains things from other cultures and still keeps the mystery, mostly causing a desire too see it for my self.   " This is the closing sentence of an article he wrote for the in house magazine of Tate's(Whatever, whoever that is). Here it is then: "Just as life, lived silently enough, in sufficient solitude, becomes a different sort of sphere, no less perfect." I just want to read and know more because of his words. Man when I get to China he has something to live up to! I know he will up to it. Enjoy you day.

Just to let you know I have finished Dan Simmons flashback, well worth a read I think. It does suck you into it's world, and people and you do end up caring and hoping. Now on to the next one either "embassytown" or on with "distrust that particular flavor" have started both but wonder which I will finish. Oh and those pieces of paper under the books are the beginnings of some thought for another story. Dyslexics should write stories, don't worry about the spelling punctuation first bring the story to life then it can grow from there.  Enjoy your day.

There is something that I do when reading, I wonder do you do it as well I am reading Dan Simmons Book "flashback" took a while to like the lead character Nick Bottom, and follow where he went, now I am 490 pages into the story the story is coming to close. I know it is as there less words less pages in front of me than be hind me in this book. I am sucked into his desire to make sense of his pain his loss and betrayal, failure as man husband father son in law etc, but aT 490 pages in and I don't want the story to end. This my wondering am I the only one who slows down so as to be long in the tale, to be dwelling longer in the story. Am I the only one, I bet I hope I am not, But if I am does it matter. Still I am now off to write something. It will be posted on the website have great day. Remember dyslexics is a lovely thing to have, to see the world unlike other people.

bookshop warnings

So I am in s book shop, looking for a book. This can be a helpful way to find books. This time it wasn't for me. My daughter found two so we bought those instead.  But while there I found a sign. Some signs do bring out the worst in me I know this an occasionally delight it. This time I did my worst! Dyslexics of the untie.

Th reason it was difficult you find some books was I have just encountered this selection of books two were gift from my wife: The Philosophical Breakfast Club and The Decisive Moment. A poetry book by W.D. Snodgrass with I bought after readingan article about weird names and how this guy get over looked. Final one is a loaner from a friend about love poetry inspired by Sacred Voices such as Thomas Aquinas  St. John of the Cross. working my way through them must stop of to the movies, The Dark Night Rises again.

Reading is a delightful thing to do, I do it every day, so should you.  Reading is grand there is something that we should all do from time to time and that is this. Read out loud, it makes you read what is there rather than just guessing what might be there. Read it aloud for your own benefit. It is more fun to read out loud for another's benefit.   The hardest part of reading aloud is when you read graphic novels or when someone has done it in dialect, To read out loud in dialect I would recommend just about any story by Brian Jacques his Redwall www.redwall.org/ tales are just great stuff, you may need to find an English person first of all to get the accent right as some are quite regional, my wife does the best accents ever! So today treat yourself, read something you have never read out loud before out loud. Reading can be hard for some dyslexics but do it anyway, even it takes more time, it is worth it.  Enjoy have great day.

I love reading what could be called transient material. It is that stuff some people will collect and keep, it is the stuff that only acquires a value if someone throws away there copy of this transient material. I like movies a lot. I go to the movies to unwind. I like to read about movies so I read empire, have been from issue one. I do find it fun. Then I like to read. Sci-fi now, Also SFX The whole geek thing a misnomer. Just for fun go and find out where it comes from in real life.  Yes go and google it!

So I like to read about the whole science fiction thing I read old H. G Wells, Jules Vern and new as well, I'll be ordering Redshirts by John Scalzi, Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole, I was sucked in by the tag line, Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer. I just like that string of Ideas.

Heavy Duty yes motorcycle magazines are just such a creative push the work in metal, is astounding, and to be applauded. I also like to fly fish, it is one of the things I do that gives me energy and puts me in touch with a wider world. So when I cannot get to the water reading Fishing Wild is the one that causes me to think about the way I wish to be. Where I wish to be.

Then I am kind of hooked on design and designers and the what could be I design process. So when I find a journal, such as the smith Journal, which has a wide range of information from Cheese Making to The styling that goes into Ice cream vans!! Yes that is true. The man who hand crafts knives. I do find the range of information is just thrilling. Finally Fast Thinking ideas are a good thing to be exposed to even if they are not in your field of expertise, it can promote a way of changing. So What is that you need exposure to, to cause your development. I also have in the past also taken courses to help with my writing. Take every opportunity to have your words ideas look at. It is risky but it shouldn't kill to much. Enjoy, throw out that transient material. It makes you feel better.

Right then to writing, was the plan. So what a plan doesn't work out just stop pause and wonder why was that? The hardest things the stopping. You don't have to carry on. It is ok to stop. Sometimes the best thing is to stop. There is a time when you need to stop. The space where you think and work is cluttered! You find yourself think about the stuff on your desk and not the stuff in your head our life. It is the stuff of life that matters, you and I are meant to live. So go take walk, speak to a friend, wake someone up, this cane fun is the time difference is great!!!! I live in Australia it can happen, sorry if it does but it can happen coming the other way too. So love and forgiveness can be shared out. Oh yeah read a book, find a new one an old one there are moments where the words of another will lift your mind, heart, self to a newer hopefully better place. sometime just another place will do. My next place will be the table for a delicious bowl of carrot and corriader soup using orange and purple carrots. I will enjoy, you enjoy the rest of your day. The sunset is at the beach where I prefer to walk with my wife and daughter at the end of the day we laugh, talk, and splash in the ocean.

Never be parted from.....

There are somethings a person should never be parted from, a pen and paper, I mean a proper pen one that is a fountain pen and great paper, use the best you can. My wife makes me note books that I use my Lamy pens in. I just love the feel of the pen in my hand running over at least 100 weight paper even better still if it is watercolour paper.  The one with the silver cap is my desk pen the one with the silver barrel middle is my carry everywhere pen. Never go anywhere without a note book to hand you never know where an idea will come from or strike you. I personally always have a bible close by. The English Standard Version is my current one of choice. Then books lots of books. read and read and read. Find a reason to read a new one something you might not look for. Try getting one that is by someone from a letter of the alphabet you have never read before!!!

Then as a person who likes and drinks coffee, I grind my own beans, don't grow them yet maybe one day. Try a new place for somewhere in the world. I personally use "The Grind" in the central market in Adelaide. The fabulous women there occasionally give a sample of beans to try when the new batch comes in.

Then music, good and great a just stuff you like, I shape sound track to what I am writing. One story I am currently working on has this list  the sound track to it.
                                   
David Crowder Band: b Collision - intro(I've had enough)
Sarah Jahn : Sparkle -  Brand New Name
Kaleidophone: What's Your Tonic - Blow Over
Alistair Holland: 17 - Angel Eyes
Johnny Cash: American IV:The Man Comes Around - Big Iron
Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man - I Won't Back Down
Metallica: St. Anger - All Within My Hands

It allows me to access a feeling, which can be fleeting things, at a given point in time again and again.

So keep close what you need to get through this day enjoy.

So anyway I am reading Onward by Howard Schultz, a book on how Starbucks survived some stuff. It is chock full of ideas and thoughts and events and what I find fascinating is a single idea that stays in my head. It is this "we moved the cheese", how does an idea as small and simple as that stay with me the book has many little stick it notes and tags on the edge of pages so I can go back to the ideas I want to think about , but the cheese it what come to mind, each time. Could be the diet ,my doctor has put me on and I am fixated on the foods I am not allowed. Who knows I don't. Have a great day enjoy it.

One of the things that happens because of how my dyslexia works is some time I type and write slower  than I think and sometimes my mind will fill in the gaps, when I have not put a word in but when `I read it back I still see the missing word. Also I think that, no I know that I don't see the mistake either. so It becomes heaps harder to do things, like writing.  Still reading has not been a problem, I have always read loads. Comes from having a desire to learn even when the education system in Hertfordshire taught me to not be able to read. I thank my parents for making sure I go extra reading lessons.  Still you have to do it everyday. else it does become rusty.  So I have now finished reading the first John Carter on Mars story.

What has ben the most telling was watching the blue ray and hearing what must have been Edgar Rice Boroughs say that he started writing because he wanted a slice of that rubbish writing pie. Start today you might get a piece of pie, or more who can tell. As William Goldman says of Hollywood no one knows what will be a hit, Have a good day  

So  I do have to tell you, I am an anglican priest in Adelaide. Still you can do with that as you wish. So I find myself needing to be challenged about how I live and do what needs to life my game in serving the church, OI am in. So what do I do, I read ( know you won't like this but I have been thinking about Christmas. That is how much lead time I need to set things in motion) So this is what I have been reading, I won't list it so I took a picture it is best to show and not tell. These were yesterdays thinking prompters, I have the beginnings of an idea, so we'll see how it unfolds.

So it has been a while mostly because I have used up my data allowance. So I had to buy a bigger allowance, now is the day it starts so here we go I like Children's books, a lot a very lot. Yes poor sentence yes don't care. I was in a local book shop. My wife was shopping for text books for our daughter. so we my daughter and I stood just nearly two meters inside the shop and we bought two book one was this totally wonderful book I love its whimsey, whimsey is a very high value in our household.  What are values in your household? Still we got text books as well don't remember what they were but this has been read by everyone in our household.  So I have to now go and write something. Here is the beginning of an idea. Troll Beads they are a real product! Our daughter likes them, collects them, wears then on  bracelets and necklaces. So where do they come from?  And now you have a beginning of an idea.

We also have a game we play while driving, the number plate letters become names and places by using the letters as a prompt. We then trash out what it could be. Feel free to take those and run with them. Have great day write something for yourself.

I like to read. Reading one of the things I do to relax,it just gives me a place to escape to rather than from. I have never felt the need to leave this world I rather like it. 

I do wonder if there other people who organise there reading lives as I do. 

I have a book always in my bag sometimes two. In each room of the house I have the book I am reading. In my household we read at breakfast and lunch. Not the evening meal that is when we talk. So my meal reading is Edgar Rice Burroughs: John Cater of Mars Collection. Before sleeping is Fashback Dan Simmons. Study is just heaps of books I am working through and adding to my list each week. I did have one that I have been waiting for for a while,  In Love and War by Jim & Sybil Stockdale. Started it straight out of the box. The fun thing is due to a postal delivery screw up I now have two copies. I shall gift it to someone, don't know who yet. have a great day.

So today has been restful been food shopping bought so truly incredible purple carrots. You know Carrots weren't orange, and the orange ones are an aberration!!! So anyway these purple carrots were made into carrot and coriander soup. That was so dark in colour, it was almost black, and the taste was just beautiful in fact I shall have it tomorrow for my lunch. I liked it a lot. , as to reading just magazines today Uncut music magazine  for the free cd, does that count as reading? One thing I will ponder is Tom Petty's preparation for delivering a concert. Empire magazine the Australia edition. Then Comic Heroes about comics and heroes, which had my disappointment for day in it my Judge Dredd keyring was broken. Oh be still me beating heart...... When I go to bed this evening the bedside book is Flashback by Dan Simmons. Enjoy the rest of your day

Some authors I have been reading for many years, I have ones whose books I just keep an eye out for. This one is in my top half a dozen and brings a thrill to my heart when I find one of his books I find them in the oddest places, once found a copy go The Zap Gun in an English Pub in Eastbourne, In East Sussex, I bought a pint and a book. Still on my shelf.

If you don't know The Zap Gun dig it out from somewhere, enjoy. The author is Philip K Dick. Yes oh you go the blade runner guy. Yes but So much more than that. If you know anything about him then you would need to read, The Exegesis of Philip K Dick. I have begun it. Seek it out enjoy. as I am doing right after I finish this post.

beginning another story.....

As a dyslexic, I love words I enjoy to read and to tell a story is a delight, so I now write them down. Here is a beginning to one that had been abandoned. Now I have returned to and am playing with it again. Enjoy 

It’s funny how you remember things: smells, or tastes, colours or sounds. With this being my very last breath, I really don’t mind that there are no more breaths after this one. Still, not to worry. Everything will be finished after this. Ahhhhh.

That was the end. 

Getting there, though…to the end… well, that is the story. It is the story of a boy who was bored. His name is Hugh. Hugh Benjamin Braithwaite. He has a dad whose name is… and a mum called. .. Because you need both of those to be born. When Hugh Benjamin Braithwaite was born, he opened his eyes, and they were blue. He looked out at the world as if it were a curious place and that it should be very grateful that Hugh Benjamin Braithwaite had been born. He was a happy baby. He had his own bed, in his own room, and a cupboard full of toys. But most of all, he had a growing collection of books. He even had books with no words in for him to fill up with his own words when he was ready to. As soon as he learned his words, Hugh started to make up stories, and he kept a diary from a very early age. His first diary entries were just dashes and squiggles as he learned new motor skills. Then he drew pictures before he moved on to words. Pictures of houses and of people and of the stories in the books on his shelves. He drew pictures of paintings in the art galleries he visited, and of exhibits he saw at museums.

Then one day there was a terrible accident. This wasn’t just the sort of accident where you drop something and make a mess. This was a life and death sort of accident. Hugh Benjamin Braithwaite lost someone he loved. I lost someone I loved.

Let me tell you what happened. It was a beautiful day in the summer. The sun was shining, the flowers were blooming, the bees were buzzing, and everything was as it should be. It was a grand day for having a picnic. And that is what my family decided to do. We were having a picnic in the valley, with sandwiches, juice, Scotch eggs and coleslaw. There was fruit for pudding. It was a glorious picnic up until the landslide. 

Rocks started to fall on our picnic. My mother was suddenly trapped under a very large rock. It crushed her flat. The grass was still growing, the bees were still buzzing, but my dad sat in the grass and cried. There was nothing he could do. In the end he stood up and walked away. 

That was the day my dad became a troll hunter. Some people think trolls are not very clever. But they are very strong and very hard. They are useful for some things like working in foundries and mines, doing hard, manual things. To catch trolls you have to annoy them first. You have to have a troll pit. You have to drop them in and then cover them with nets and tie them with ropes. One of the grand things about trolls is.....

There is more, but you will never know sorry about that but not much. Thanks for reading Have a good day

As a dyslexic I am struck by ideas in sometimes odd ways. Sometimes it is in the presentation of an idea, a thought, and they can on occasions just make me smile. As this did a poorly constructed sentence, which leads to an odd idea in my head, clothing with health issues.......

As a dyslexic, somethings are difficult Math is difficult. Well I have an emotional response to Math, mostly it is based in animosity, dislike bordering on rage, I find Math difficult, yes I don't like it. I have not passed on my dislike to my daughter. I have revealed and delighted in her perseverance and skill. Out off this and our joint enjoyment of the television show "Numbers"while watching it a book got a mention, I wondered if it was real and guess what it is.  So I bought a copy. Now to read it

Why write poetry if there's no percentage in it?

So it its all about life and living it. So the answer is do something about it today now don't wait, It is not about money or envy, or stuff or pain it is about the art of being content now, not tomorrow. If you rare waiting for someone else to deliver your contentment. You are going to be disappointed. Again. So pause, take a deep breath and live now building for contentment, In who you are today. It just so much fun being alive. To abuse a Bon Jovi lyric "I'll sleep when I am dead"

It is not sleep it is death that is much worse.

"Why write poetry if there's no percentage in it?"  Gregory Benford in Jupiter Project page 14, Bantam Spectra Books 1990

Tired, so sleep

There are somethings that can set someone thinking, what do you do when you are tired and worn out. Th temptation to believe that when I am tired I am smarter wiser than I actually am. It is at this moment it is time to stop, to rest. What does that look like? For me it is to sit and watch Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush this evening with my wife and daughter. Then to write and think about the God I love and worship. After that a warm drink and to sleep till 5 am the next morning. I like rest make sure you get yours.

so writing is in the blog title.

Here is the unedited script for a children's picture book (Use your imagination and make the nosies out loud it is best that way!!!)

Synopsis: Animal Orchestra

When you are put bed, do you wonder what happens down stairs?

In this house, when Jack tries to sleep elephants, walruses, hippos, and gibbons all come round to play music.  Will Jack ever get to sleep? 

Animal Orchestra

“Good night Jack. Sleep well.”

Briiiing, Briiiing. A hoof on a door bell.

There on the step are five Grevy’s Zebras each carrying a violin.

Come in.

Sitting on the sofa they start to tune up: Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

Tap-tap-tap on the door.

“Can I come in?” asks the White Rhino  with a Double Bass

Rhino tunes up, too. Dum Dum Dum, Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

Rat-at-at, Rat-at-at, Rat-at-at on the door.  An elephant with drums and cymbals.

The African Elephant tunes up. Boom boom tap tish tish, Dum Dum Dum, Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

Thud slap splat on the door. 

There on the step are three Walruses with trumpets and a Blue Ringed  octopus with a triangle.

Walruses start to blow. Toot Toooooooottttttttttttttttttttt. TING TING ting goes the octopus.  Boom boom tap tish tish, Dum Dum Dum, Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

Snap snap scratch on the door.

There on the step are two Gharial Crocodiles carrying trombones.

The crocodiles pucker up and Parp Paaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrppppppp!  Paaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrp! Toot Toooooooottttttttttttttttttttt, TING TING ting, Boom boom tap tish tish, Dum Dum Dum, Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

Plunk Plunk Plunk Thud on the door.

There on the step are four Lar Gibbons with guitar cases and three hippos in high heels and sequinned dresses.

Gloria, Geraldine, and Grace warm up their vocal cords. Laaaaaaaaaa, Laaaaaaaaa, Laaaaaaaaaaaa, Laaaaaaaaaaa, The Lar Gibbons get ready, Strumm plink plink Struuuuuum, plink, Parp Paaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrppppppp!  Paaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrp! Toot Toooooooottttttttttttttttttttt, TING TING ting, Boom boom tap tish tish, Dum Dum Dum, Screeech, Hoooowl, HUMMMM.

Will you keep the noise down!!!!! I can’t sleep with all that noise!!!!

A gentle tap of dad’ s conductors baton brings  silence. He raises his hands.

Ahhhh Now I can sleep.

ZZZZZZ PUPPHH!! ZZZZZZ PUPPHH!! ZZZZZZ PUPPHH!! ZZZZZZ PUPPHH!!

Gloria, Geraldine, and Grace the hippos, the Lar Gibbons, gharial Crocodiles, walruses,  Blue ringed octopus, African elephant, white rhino and the Grevy’s zebras all drop their instruments and cover their ears.

We can’t play with all that noise!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

fear

Yesterday I went fishing, i am not scared of fishing, I like catching fish I like learning to be a better fisherman. Yes because I am one.  But anyway that is not my fear. One of the most completely and utterly unnerving things I have done was this, first you need to understand something about my dyslexia. I have great spacial awareness, I know how wide long the mass and volume when I am in it, the same with a motorcycle. So anyway fishing out in the Spencer Gulf heading between fishing spots having a great day. When I am asked if I want to drive the boat, I have never done this before, not really been interested in doing it either. But never been one to do something new or interesting or fun, I said yes sure in a confident tone. So I swap seats and am sitting behind the wheel. I have a compass thing that is my aiming guide it is off to the right of me, a depth gauge, and the comforting sound of a boat engine. I have never done anything this difficult in along time. Watching a horizon watching a compass and watching a depth gauge, The level on concentration was almost painful, and the most scary bit is the fixation that occurred in me to attempt to keep the two indicators on the compass in place. Then my loss of ability to watch all the other things that matter.

The most and completely unnerving bit was I had no idea how big it was I was totally at sea and no idea of the scale of what I was in. I have not been the disconcerted in an age. Would I do it again, you bet. under the care and guidance of my captain yep anytime. I can better at this fear won't stop me

Have a great day, go fishing have fun

is it worth it

The short answer is yes, but what is it. Will I choose to grow, and what is that I will grow in? As a dyslexic reading has always been easy, that has never been my problem, writing and sequencing is it  shows in my spelling (which is easier with a computer!!!) and grammar punctuation. I just am terrible at it. When I stop to think I put in a full stop. even if I am only half way through a thought. I t does make it fun to read back anyway.

So it is worth it, the practise of writing is only ever in the practise, do it, do it again, keep doing it. Do it anyway. Keep going. Don't stop. Then when it feels done, give it to some else to see, read, and learn from them. It is worth it.  Risk something Today

Old things for fun and joy

Read a book a book written before you were born, Winston Churchill six volumes on the Second World War, is what I have started, so will take while, a film from before I was born will be The Maltese Falcon, never seen it yet, wonder what else I have missed, just keeping an eye out in the local library does mean i can pick them up for free.

Winston does raise a question who is in government and is not being listened to. also how would I know?

gettting help

When you need help the best helper is the one who has done it before you have to learn it just like the blog lark, my wife knows more than me and i am learning from her, she is good i am just not a good leaner yet