• God in Hell: An Easter Narrative

    A short exploration of Easter Saturday, weaving a narrative and basking in the ifs of who and what takes place between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

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  • Time for a Fresh Look! 🚀

    The site needs a bit of a refresh, so as they used to say it is under construction. As such things might not look right, work right, or even feel right. But only until everything is new and shiny. After that… who knows.

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  • Creating amongst the Chaos – Creative Field Notes

    This month has been productive despite global chaos, and I have noticed the importance of maintaining a positive and intentional creative practice.

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  • Mid to End Feb Creative Field Notes

    This week’s creative field notes include how I am keeping up with February Album Writing Month and coming up with a few other creative ideas.

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  • Imbolc: Creative New Starts

    January has been a difficult month for this creative minimalist. However, the festival of Imbolc is as good a time as any to make a creative new start. This week’s vlog explores recent creative highs and lows.

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  • My current journal set-up

    As we begin the new year of 2025, I’m excited to share my collection of journals with you in this week’s vlog. I have a new daily planner, as well as music and fiction journals, and various vocabulary notebooks.

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  • Odyssey my word of the year 2025

    Odyssey my word of the year 2025

    An image of the word Odyssey and the text 2025 on a black background

    My word for 2025 is Odyssey. It is a guiding word, something to meditate on during the dismal grey days of February, or the oppressive heat of June. I believe this provides the perfect balance between a dedicated journey with purpose alongside the very real distractions of living and being.

    Odyssey
    noun
    a long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience:
    journey, voyage, trek, travels, quest, crusade, pilgrimage, wandering, journeying;

    It doesn’t limit itself to the self-development or spiritual growth of a pilgrimage but can encompass it. It is a me sort of word, with multiple meanings and aspects around a theme.

    Of course, one can’t truly think of the word “odyssey” without a brief mention of Homer’s renowned classic. I find the Wikipedia entry on the poem’s themes particularly insightful.

    > Crucial themes in the poem include the ideas of nostos (νόστος; ‘return’), wandering, xenia (ξενία; ‘guest-friendship’), testing, and omen

    Or, a journey to a place, without a set course, with friends, family and others, a journey that will test my skills and abilities, and provide moments of spiritual contemplation and revelation.

    On a more practical note, this odyssey will involve music making, digital and traditional art, multimedia, lots of learning and looking after my physical health.

    I’ll share more as the year passes. I have been working on 25 goals/habits for 2025. The first and primary one is to vlog/blog each week, so I’ll have plenty of opportunities to let you know how things are going.

    In the meantime, I have to do some preparation work for January. I still can’t believe we’ve spent another year in orbit around our star. I hope and pray that it was a good one for you, and may 2025 bring blessings to you all.


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  • Perfectionism destroys creativity

    Perfectionism destroys creativity

    Perfectionism destroys creativity text with a picture of me in an art studio

    Hello worlds! I found myself thinking about how it is perfectionism created by myself, which, ironically, destroys my creativity. This week’s vlog examines how I must embrace the unknown and let creativity flow.


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  • Rewilding my Imagination and Creativity

    Rewilding my Imagination and Creativity

    Rewilding my imagination and creativity text with an image of darrenrhill in front of a wild jungle

    Hello worlds! I have found myself in a creative rut, my creativity has become automated and feels unnatural. This week’s vlog is all about beginning to rewild my imagination and creativity.


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  • We’re not actors music video

    We’re not actors music video

    We're not actors music video screen shot. Black and white me on a TV screen in a derelict room.

    Hello worlds! I made a video for my song “We’re not Actors” from the album “The Same Old Fear”. You can listen to the music on all streaming platforms. If you like it give it a thumbs up and subscribe and add to playlists etc.

    Lyrics:

    We stumble together, so sure yet insecure
    We’re diamonds from dust, the pressure’s mounting, these steps the cure
    I’ll quote Murakami, something from Kafka on the Shore, 
    It’s just a diversion because I know there’s something more
    But the light is too bright, I shake I’m under the spotlight

    We’re not actors
    We’re not film stars
    We’re not filters
    Image captures

    We dance without routine, these steps ancient and worn
    A ballet of passion, the step’s quickening, new rhythm born
    You whisper the lyrics in this new context they’re alive 
    We feel beyond meaning for this act was divined
    The light shining bright, we shake, and dance in the spotlight

    We’re not actors
    We’re not film stars
    We’re not filters
    Image captures

    We’re not actors
    We’re not film stars
    We’re not filters
    Image captured

    We’re not avatars
    We’re not film stars
    We’re not filtered
    Just distractions


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  • Change your mind to be truly creative

    Change your mind to be truly creative

    Change your mind to be truly creative text with an image of me in a TV

    Hello worlds! This week’s vlog looks at how we may need to change our minds or opinions to get truly creative. And it all starts with the question, when was the last time you changed your mind?

    Links mentioned:

    https://www.ground.news

    https://obliquestrategies.ca

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategie


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  • Creativity: Helps and Hindrances

    Creativity: Helps and Hindrances

    Creativity: Helps and hindrances text with an image of me in an art studio

    Month end gives me a pause for reflection to review what is helping and hindering my creative journey. My latest vlog looks at the helps and hindrances to a creative life from my own recent experience.


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