The uncertainty in me
with the nerves awoken
slept on and within
that jumbly mumbly feeling
of uncertainty
confidence lacked
and fear of…
Missing you
next to me though you are
missing you
definitely not near me;
both hold an absence
resonating/reverberating
in my unsettled chambers.
A threnody of my confidence
a coronach of times
a lament of loss not yet lost;
all of it potato/potatoe
but into the pot it goes
a laddle of such ingested.
Not to aggrandize
the melancholic tune
rather to recognize it
play it/live through it
move on into tomorrow. #change #poetry #words #FartsFromTheMouth Durham, Uk
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
Can’t show you anything
but I can tell you a lot!
What a wonderful week had
how grateful I am
how amazing
the entire cast/crew is
how utterly lovely
generous & kind
everyone is-
their open arms in welcoming
equal to their gifts and talents.
ALL OF THIS MADE POSSIBLE
THANKS TO @barantini
and @hesterruoff @barturuspoli @stephengraham1973 @bbc and MANY others! #weekend #grateful #kitchen #yeschef Manchester, United Kingdom
So excited and equally so proud/thrilled with this!! Call it manifesting or just pure hustle and grind, but definitely call it DREAMS CAN COME TRUE!!
I reached out to @barantini soon after watching his brilliant film BOILING POINT (it also has one of my all time favorite actors – @stephengraham1973 who alongside the entire cast did such incredible/inspiring work!!)
I always love to acknowledge and thank, when possible, ANY artist or artists that have inspired me to keep going…to reach for the things I want especially during a low or when wanting to throw in the ol towel.
Philip and I began some wee banter over a year ago…and now here we are – with THIS!! You CAN make it happen! You just have to keep grinding away and reach out for what you want!
So grateful/honored to be invited into this kitchen! Thank you @barantini @stephengraham1973 @hesterruoff @bbc @boilingpointfilmandtv and ALL!!
Here I come UK!!! Let’s do this!
#grateful #thankful #boilingpointfilm #kitchen
So excited and equally so proud/thrilled with this!! Call it manifesting or just pure hustle and grind, but definitely call it DREAMS CAN COME TRUE!!
I reached out to @barantini soon after watching his brilliant film BOILING POINT (it also has one of my all time favorite actors – @stephengraham1973 who alongside the entire cast did such incredible/inspiring work!!)
I always love to acknowledge and thank, when possible, ANY artist or artists that have inspired me to keep going…to reach for the things I want especially during a low or when wanting to throw in the ol towel.
Philip and I began some wee banter over a year ago…and now here we are – with THIS!! You CAN make it happen! You just have to keep grinding away and reach out for what you want!
So grateful/honored to be invited into this kitchen! Thank you @barantini @stephengraham1973 @hesterruoff @bbc @boilingpointfilmandtv and ALL!!
Here I come UK!!! Let’s do this!
#grateful #thankful #boilingpointfilm #kitchen
So excited and equally so proud/thrilled with this!! Call it manifesting or just pure hustle and grind, but definitely call it DREAMS CAN COME TRUE!!
I reached out to @barantini soon after watching his brilliant film BOILING POINT (it also has one of my all time favorite actors – @stephengraham1973 who alongside the entire cast did such incredible/inspiring work!!)
I always love to acknowledge and thank, when possible, ANY artist or artists that have inspired me to keep going…to reach for the things I want especially during a low or when wanting to throw in the ol towel.
Philip and I began some wee banter over a year ago…and now here we are – with THIS!! You CAN make it happen! You just have to keep grinding away and reach out for what you want!
So grateful/honored to be invited into this kitchen! Thank you @barantini @stephengraham1973 @hesterruoff @bbc @boilingpointfilmandtv and ALL!!
Here I come UK!!! Let’s do this!
#grateful #thankful #boilingpointfilm #kitchen
A joyous call to action for us all
with bittersweet humanity
with the power of friendship
with the power of creativity
all healing us in unexpected ways.
“Where did life go? Every day I find myself asking this one same question of the mirror, yet the answer always eludes me. All I see is a stranger staring back…pain nags at my neck and I marvel at the minor miracle that my body has held out this long. Sometimes it feels as if it is held together by little other than strings of memories and sinews of hope. The mind is a museum coated in dust.
But I was a young man once, so young and green, and that can never change. Memory allows me to be so again.
I knew not what language could do then. I did not yet understand the power and potency of words. The complex magic of language was as alien as the altered country that I saw around me during that summer…
The whole place needs a lot of work but I am too ancient for all that now…the old word processor still functions though. There’s power in the both of us, there is electricity, and while it is still there I have something to share.
Sitting here now by the open window, a glissando of birdsong on the very lightest of breezes that carries with it the cent of a final incoming summer, I cling to poetry as I cling to life.” @benmyers76 #theoffing #novel #inspiration @element_pictures @catalystglobalmedia
Borrowing from
as much inspired by
these things-
that play
these words
this performance
the song
this•that•the other
culminating in movement
forward•continuing•onwards
accountability a cup
not held by as many
but filled up myself
I shall proudly drink up!
“I did that!” He bellows. #medea #euripedes #jason #inspired #london #theatre @sohoplace London,UK
A torrent of words
a great flooding of feelings
an ocean of all
to wade thru upon waking.
•a nugatory pain
from the loss.
•a torrent of obloquy-
utterly inefficacious.
•a excoriation-
unavailing.
All above
futile-
becoming chimerical;
when devalued
upon discounted
not a drop of recognition.
Ignored a stone or stick
dismissed a typhoon
wreaking havoc
to fight thru upon waking.
#poetry #cedar #catharsis #MyArseIs #CapableOfSoMuchMore #synonyms Cedar Tree
Performance-
a dignity of discipline
love of to do
appreciation always
help always welcome
help needed
to connect
to contact
to push together
to create!
These limbs
keep flailing
whilst
these hands
keep reaching
still hoping for
that kaZAMba
that puts it
that brings it
all together.
This heart?
Remains grateful
for all I do have! @elouis7580 #WhoKilledMyFather #performance #onetake #martinmcdonagh #jezbutterworth #theatre @itaensemble @youngvictheatre @hans_kesting @stannswarehouse @factory_international Cellar Door
Anyone can make anyones
experience
good or bad
made or difficult.
Taking very little
to make it special
taking little more
to make it suck.
Kindness
welcoming
consideration
hugs and smiles
engaged and responsive
caring and checking in;
they make THIS world
spin beautifully!
I thank each in it
for such!
#grateful #SoManyMoreNotPicturedHere Manchester, United Kingdom
LE MENU –
ROE
smoked eel & oxalis
S.C.O.B.Y
duck liver, wakoucha,&honey
FERMENTED CEP
sunchoke&comté
LOUÈT-FEISSER OYSTER
wasabi&dill
AGUACHILE
mackerel&radish
SCOTTISH LANGOUSTINE
cured egg yolks & spruce
KING SCALLOP
roe katsuobushi,verbena,&custard
KAGOSHIMA WAGYU
xo
KOHLRABI SALAD
smoked haddock&St.Andrews
CUMBRIAN HOGGET
parker house cultured butter&fermented lavender honey
GREAT CONVERSATION
lots of love & grateful @boilingpointofficial #loveyou #manchester @mana_manchester #chef #kitchen Manchester, United Kingdom
Each path now taken
cloaked in shadows
from the past
to your absence.
A grove of
quercus petraeas-
line each side
resplendently imposing.
Every memory
a tilia x europaea –
appreciated yet daunting;
their growth
spread from those years
the roots of it all.
Traveling along
continuing to appreciate
but never the same;
the canopy of pain
the branches of memories
forever now
on either side of me
down this path
down your path
athwart OUR path. #catharsis #unfukyourself @cityandcolour_official @mattkelly250 YOUR MUSIC/YOUR SHARING helps enormously! #thankyou #loveyou #TheStruggleHasAname #yoga Vimoksha Valley
It’s thinking of you
or remembering you
or missing you
that somehow guides me
into a place to create
into a place of exploring
where my happiness exists
where the absence
becomes a reason to live
not a reason to remain
in that place…of pain.
So I make something
I do a wee jig
I spew it out there
to release
to get it out of me
BUT
to honour you –
your absence
and the tragically beautiful gift
you have given me. #reading #missing #love @elouis7580 HERE
What is IT
that keeps me moving forward
that push that drive that passion
that inspiration that hope
that rooted believe
that it WILL
one day
all come
together.
Some days this.
Some days that.
Mostly just my desire
maybe nothing but that
to create to do better to elevate
to keep reaching out
in the hope of
that I will get there
that I will be
where I should be.… #words #hope #gas #love Where The Heart Is
RE-DOK
rewa (hope) dokpa (fear)
a portmanteau!
GIF-SSING
gift (given) blessing (bestowed)
LON-VED
London(visited) loved (always!)
GRATE-PART
Grateful(always) My partner (blessed)
ADVEN-WITHU
Adventures (wanted) With you (needed) #london #inspiration #thankful (inspo frm @stephengraham1973 …ya know!!) #muchlove London,UK
The adventure fills an absence
not a replacement for;
from seeing this
reminding me of that-
from the gentle to the obvious
I think of you
willing or not
then proceed
so my adventures
don’t become an absence too. #dante #divinia #commedia #cantos #inferno #GatesOfHell #adventure #manchester Ravenna, Italy