My dear husband is after just over a month and a quarter beginning to emerge from a bout of double pneumonia but is left with a disabling lung condition (bronchiectasis) which leaves him open to its resumption and by rarer & more resistant infective agents that affect those without that chronic condition. He will have … More Cause for Concern for Queer Carers?
The Sleep Foundation (at this link and not related to the commercial ‘infographic’ above) gives seven reasons why we need sleep. They are given below without the trusted sources of information that their web page does have (I have given a link above) to the scientific evidence behind some of these claims. Sleep is needed, … More If I didn’t sleep, and sleep off unregulated fantasy and vision, I might create. I might!!!!!!! But that is not for many: so I enjoy my sleep instead.
Who would have thought that ‘screen time’ is a phrase that could be discussed on Wikipedia but it is!. That discussion focuses on the bad effects on the developmental physical and mental health of children but adults are considered as in this extract, which makes the point that screen time for adults is divided between … More ‘Screen time’. Another red herring of an issue in a world where time is seen as a commodity for consumption.
“If you can get the balls in, you will”. Elisabeth Frink quoted her mother as saying to her of sculptural work to her official biographer, Stephen Gardiner. She used this to illustrate her love of symbolic and embodied passion, imagined as entirely male, that is quite ‘the opposite of passive … somebody who can be … More “If you can get the balls in, you will”. This blog prepares to revisit Yorkshire Sculpture Park to re-see their Frink collection after reading Stephen Gardiner (1998) ‘Frink: The Official Biography of Elisabeth Frink’.
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