Two planes fly across the night sky, their contrails form glistening parallel lines -like a pair of skis in wine dark snow. I stand in my yard below, breath billowing, watching them fly. It’s Christmas Eve. I’m taking some air after ten hours in the kitchen. As the planes fly past Orion’s Belt I...
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Steam billows from my mouth as the pealing of the bells from the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England reverberates around the Georgian architecture of the square. The vibration makes it through my coat and gently rattles my ribcage -like speakers at a really polite concert. Sunday morning. It’s a ghost...
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My first cloak-and-dagger business meeting was in the foyer of a Michelin starred restaurant attached to a casino in Auckland. It was late and we could be sure we wouldn’t be kicked out if it got later because the casino is open twenty four hours. The only other people around were a few Japanese...
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There’s a faint air of frustration around me at the moment. I missed another Crucible. Granted, it’s not exactly a local event in the strictest sense but my absence is entirely down to a lack of organisation and nothing else. There’s still a week of leave left on my payslips to burn through this...
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You could probably say this most days, but there’s a fantastic post over at the Secret Sun at the moment regarding re-enchanting every day life. This hits me right where I live. Over the last twelve months, some popular threads of magical discourse have become a bit too baroque for my tastes. No reason...
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In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he came back to Hamburg was “why is Gordon still working for the company?”) And part...
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This post was originally going to be about markets. You see, I followed back from Ryan’s fantastic post about clients (I’m in a client facing career) to another post by ConjureMan Ali justifiably railing at unscrupulous and/or downright crap conjure practitioners. It was going to be a post about markets because hoodoo -or Tarot...
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It’s already kicked off up the road. I’m playing phone tree with various friends and loved ones, getting them to their respective destinations by feeding them updates found on twitter. Last night, a couple of hours after eventually nodding off over the sound of helicopters and sirens, I stirred to the smell of smoke....
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“Rules change in The Reaches” -A Wizard of Earthsea Today was a day of catching up with some old friends I used to live with in Sydney almost a decade ago. They’re big shot lawyer-y, finance-y people living in Hong Kong now. And they’re engaged. I know precisely nothing about any of these things....
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Because I clearly have the mental age of a small child, for me it is terribly exciting to discover that people you know are on vacation at the same time as you -even if they are on different continents. (When I read this post I just had to email and say “wheeee! Horay for...
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