Blimey! Now where did that year go?
This moment in my blogging year does remind me a bit of when I used to put all my beloved He-Man figures on display, so I could just sit back with a purring of pleasure, satisfied by the simple act of amassing stuff: or when VHS was a thing, running my fingertip across all the lurid spines of my very many horror videos, finding comfort in the accruing and arranging of like-minded things. Mostly, however, I experience a funny sort of relief because even though this past year of Kick-Abouts has been busy with everything else, this latest miscellany suggests I am bloody-minded enough to hold on to all this thinking, doing and making even when circumstances are far from conducive. When your hands are full, you have to be careful what you put down. Looking back, all these little undertakings feel like spells cast for warding off world events and other slumps, like bobbing up again after intrusive thoughts of sinking and staying sunk.
I owe much of my buoyancy to the other Kick-Abouters, for The Kick-About is a lot like lighting a candle and putting it in my window, and then looking out and seeing all these other candles appearing one-by-one – and oh! the comfort and encouragement that brings!
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Hermione Gray & The Murdered Magician
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Love that metaphor of the little candles in the window! And it’s lovely to see a one stop shop of all your offerings this past year.
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I think it is like that – somtimes you’re thinking ‘Why am I doing this?’ when you’re balancing a strange kick-about project with life-stuff – and then you see that other people are bothering – those other little lights winking on – and it’s s bit special and life-affirming each time.
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I feel that way too. It’s a push out of whatever pressure I’m putting on myself in other aspects of my life to just “do something”. You never know what will result, but of course, it’s the doing that’s the important thing. (K)
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Wonderful and inspiring collection of work Phil. You have something very amazing going with all those other candle-burners. A fine gift to the audience.
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Thank you, Chris! 😀
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