{"id":955,"date":"2016-06-14T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:07:15","slug":"making-sense-of-things-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2016\/06\/14\/making-sense-of-things-past\/","title":{"rendered":"making sense of things past"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently had a clear out of my notebooks which i took when traveling in 1997-8-9 and filled with poetry and drawings (most are not publishable – but some of the o.k. ones are in the ‘poem library’ part of this site).<\/p>\n

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The ‘little red notebook’ and Schr\u00ff<\/span>fbloks.<\/p>\n

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Schr\u00ff<\/span>fblok scribblings.<\/p>\n

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The “little red notebook” which has a few poems and lots of other dreamings.<\/p>\n

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Self portrait aged 20.<\/p>\n

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Poems..<\/p>\n

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Leunig influences.. yearnings for simplicity.<\/p>\n

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Psychedelic scribbles.<\/p>\n

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Being a nerd, I designed castles. Later I recreated them as ‘Doom’ levels.<\/p>\n

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Lines improving Somerset Maugham’s “The razors edge”.<\/p>\n

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I spent these travel days on my own trying to make sense out of life. I was heavily influenced by eastern ideas and the amount of meditation that i did put me in a completely different state of mind to any other time in my life. I can’t even really touch on those days with writing – they are gone but they are always deeply present in me.<\/p>\n

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I recently had a clear out of my notebooks which i took when traveling in 1997-8-9 and filled with poetry and drawings (most are not publishable – but some of the o.k. ones are in the ‘poem library’ part of this site). The ‘little red notebook’ and Schr\u00fffbloks. Schr\u00fffblok scribblings. The “little red notebook” which … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enlightenment","category-inchiki-news","category-poetry","category-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}