Deadlines
This week we have 5 deadlines. 'Deadline' has been the word of the day. We are finishing our latest commission of awards ready for the Social Value Awards 2017, run in partnership with the Department for Culture Media and Sport. Today the glass has come out of the kiln, M has finished shaping the recycled wood base, N has prepared the text and the logos ready to engrave the winners. (sneaky peek of awards, can't show you the finished award until next week!) On Saturday we sta
Down The Dark Alley
Down The Dark Alley Walking down a dark alley.
Constantly walking down a dark alley...
With every few steps a black curtain comes down in front of your vision.
Sometimes you focus on the darkness.
It's like watching the end of the world happening before your eyes.
For a few seconds there is no tomorrow.
No future moments
Not in those seconds... or minutes that follow. Other days are more optimistic.
The darkness still comes
The moments still occur,
But you focus on
Who am I?
Lorraine Knight. It's not me. It's not my identity. But I wasn't me back then, so to return to this pseudonym now, to blog here, somehow seems
appropriate. So, who am I? It's a difficult question to answer... it depends on how to define yourself I suppose. If I were to answer you honestly, I would say this: I am a liar. If you were to stop me in the street and ask me who I was and what I did, I would say 'I am a writer
and an artist'. It sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Sounds
We want to see things change
Last night a group of us from Designs in Mind went to see Ruby Wax for 'an evening of mindfulness, hosted by Booka Bookshop. She highlighted throughout the evening how difficult it can be to talk about mental health whilst asking how can this be when we're all nuts?! 'I told my fiance 3 things when we walked down the aisle... 1- my real age 2- that i'd been married before 3- that I was mentally ill It was too late, he couldn't escape' Yesterday the Prime Minister, Theresa May
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