PARAGRAPHS

THE ONE THING & ANOTHERS AVAILABLE NOW : ALIEN MONKEYS:   I had a daydream when I was about ten years old. A small green martian came to me and whispered that modern humans were half ancient monkey – magical monkey – like how some describe bigfoot/yeti – and half alien life-force. I awake the…

I was feeling guilty about the amount of screen time the kids were having and so I made an imaginary theme park called EVERYTHING-WORLD to elasticise my kids’ minds, whether it be for 45 minutes after Sunday lunch or 5 minutes during the winter holidays when everyone is happily stuck on their screens. After asking…

MOVEMENT  Questions for classrooms and kitchen tables on the books of the Past Life Library ~ Circles, circles, circles. Movement. Life, time, age, the galaxy…. ~ it’s all there. We can’t stop it. Nature moves. The world may indeed blow up one day. And yet I find a craving for stillness. Of course in meditation…

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These conversations with worried adults helped me make EVERYTHING-WORLD, our own imaginary theme park full of questions, rides, stories, songs and creatures…  Each ride asks your child a series of questions about its particular theme. For instance the Ghost Train of Change will ask your whole family questions like…   In life, in general, what…

As you venture into Everything-World, you fall down the corridor of coriander and you eyes turn into penguins, I help you hop over a bunny called Hop and then into the safe arms of ride operator “Dr SOUP.” He bundles you into your bumper car and gives you a copy of the accompanying book, THE…

I don’t have much faith, but I do have a little bit. Apart from routinely doing back to “well the world will blow up one day and we’re all gonna die so nothing matters…” as an explanation for why my kids shouldn’t worry so much, I also burn leaves, cast spells and teach them to…

The other day I saw my daughter question something about herself for the first time…     Darling, Me And My Million Flaws:   I think a lot, and I’m incredibly flawed. I drink, I smoke – sometimes. I’m unreliable, annoying, I’m always late. I’ve been told that I’m a drama queen, a pushover, crazy,…