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March 2026 Updates
Spring is here, finally. It feels like an exhalation as daffodils open and bare branches split to reveal tightly coiled green buds. I find myself coming back to life as the season does, eager to get out there.
February 2026 Updates
February is a transition month, where we leave behind the long winter and the days start to get longer. It's still a slog, but we are over the worst of the dark and light is beckoning us forward. Irises emerged in my garden. Roses have started to show life.
Sure, here is a 112% accurate and true prediction
Neurons reduced to raw copper wires
lie in a river bed network, now cracked
next to hedgerows picked skeletal.
Rhubbarb
Some daft bastard decided to chew on the poison,
another threw debris and loam over the mounds,
so now here he is, daylight starved, guarding
full cases of this barbarian root, each box
holding petioles in rows like pink pencils.
January 2026 Updates
I follow a lot of blogs by RSS and enjoy reading other people's week notes on their lives and the things they've read. Its a personal moment of human recommendation and curation that is sorely needed in this age of slop. I've tried doing something similar before but have always dropped it. So I'm picking it up again. Weekly is a bit too quick for me so I'm going to try to do it monthly.
2025 in review: Defining Enough
2025 was a difficult year in many respects. Instead of dwelling on that, I thought I would review the year based on the theme I set at the start of the year - The Year of Enough.
Signal Not Found
Elm trunk picked out in mustard.
The suggestion of erased branches.
Light only falls so far.
Finding some intentionality amidst the scroll
The blog has taken a slight pause because I moved house. During all the stress and frantic packing, I relaxed by opening my phone and reading as much out of context information as I could until my brain felt fried. It wasn't particularly enjoyable and yet I kept doing it.
Tempestuous
Friction is the point
LLMs and generative AI may be easy, but the hard stuff is the point because the friction of art is where the magic is. Art is not a product to be instantly spat out. I've been thinking about this since I updated my site to include an AI disclaimer and before AI was as widespread as it is now. Any artist will tell you that the process of making art is where the real magic happens.