The promise in my last post to be 'back soon..' has obviously given rise to my stubborn side, the side that refuses to oblige with even the simplest of self appointed tasks, hence it has been well over a week since my last post. My blog writing is becoming increasingly slack but even so I refuse to give up my blog entirely. Blogging has given me the incentive I needed to release some creative energy. Having something to do with it has made all the difference. It doesn't even matter to me if anybody sees it, to just get it out and have it exist, suspended in cyberworld, is enough. Saying that I am thoroughly grateful to those who come here and give encouragement, thanks so much for your time and your patience, sorry if you come here and find only a stationery blog.
To carry on from my last post, that night wasn't as expected an evening's dancing to prog rock, (too many kids on the dancefloor I believe restricted the DJ to less cosmic soundscapes) instead I was suprised by a intense and mind-opening conversation about the nature of the universe and our place in it (not at all what one would expect to find in a working mans club.) I felt somewhat shook by the whole experience the day after but nevertheless reassured that I'm on the right path and that my intuition serves me well.
Today I discovered Jeanette Winterson's website (www.jeanettewinterson.com), I've just finished 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' and have not yet been disappointed by her writing even though I've come to expect so much. I was happy to find she writes a monthly blog there where she speaks, amongst other things, of the joy of jam making and winter fires. She also posts her favourite poetry. Today is national poetry day. On the radio they were discussing the 'point' of poetry, when I came across Jeanette's musings on the matter I figured she had hit the nail on the head.

"I believe that poetry is a user’s manual – a way of defining what things matter, and, as Coleridge put it, ‘keeping the heart alive to love and beauty.’
Poetry is there when we need it, and we need it regularly. Simply, it turns ordinary life into a meditation, and it reminds us that meditation – the ability to settle and focus and concentrate our energies, is a necessary part of ordinary life."
Jeanette Winterson