“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“I’m a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong…” Florence Welch Just last weekend, one of the most important and prestigious annual music competitions was held. No not Eurovision, the Aarhus Vocal Festival. Each year the Danish town of Aarhus hosts one of the largest choir and vocal events. The festival was established in 1999, to… Read more

“The faintest ink is better than the worst memory…” Chinese proverb One of my favourite ever fountain pens (yes there have been a lot), was the TWSBI Diamond 580. It was a sensation when released about a decade ago, a stylish looking flagship pen from an upstart Taiwanese company, challenging the established Japanese pen manufacturers.… Read more