Category: Shorts

  • Plans vs Plants

    Plans vs Plants

    This bit of land down the road from us has been empty for a long time. It was industrial units before that, but they were cleared along with the plants and the fox families and the sense of nothing-but-now, to make way for plans and ideas. I saw the plans and ideas on paper, an…

  • The Wheat of Human Connection

    Sorting the wheat of decent, meaningful connections from the chaff of low-effort, low-meaning connections

  • A memory of doors

    Everything changes except the position of doors. Wandering down the road to the cafe, I try to remember which shopfront was which business a quarter of a decade ago. It all looks different now; palimpsests of signage peer down, but despite their gaudiness they cannot hide their spatial permanence.