‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …
The Unexplained Beauty of Chance Encounter
Those of you who have read Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being know how beautiful and poetic circumstance can be. If you have watched Alejandro …
Magic Realism in the Age of Covid-19
You don’t need me to tell you, as so many news reporters, employers, business owners and governments have so often noted, that we are living …
The Appropriation of Magic: How White People Demonised Voodoo
Last summer I visited New Orleans, the home of Louisiana Voodoo. New Orleans is a city which has a whole tourism industry built on Voodoo, …
There are a million lives
There are a million lives within the small confines of this grotesque heart, And the sticky eye dust-The corneas morning drool- Of historical cyclops’, Cakes the …
Patriarchy and Magic: Demonising Marginalised Bodies
“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of …
The Magic Within.
“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching I lost my …
Midnight Gospel: an Unfamiliar Show
Midnight Gospel is a special kind of TV show. It is as unique as I believe a show can get in the current climate of …
Magic Stays
As I am sitting here writing, my two dogs, Calvin and Feynman, both golden retrievers, appear to be attacking one another. They’re jumping on top …