Newness
I imagined a funny smugness amongst the people at the supermarket at opening time this morning. ‘Well, we didn’t succumb to the...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
The nope card
I gave my brother-in-law a new game on the market called Exploding Kittens. In order to win, one must avoid being blown up and be the...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Dec 23, 2019
- 2 min
Good enough?
As you may know, I like to paint on paper. I like the way the ink reacts with the absorbent surface. I enjoy the permanency of the marks....
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Kirsten Johnston
- Dec 16, 2019
- 1 min
Armour
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. So wrote Emma Donoghue in her novel Room. A shout-out to Alex Mathers,...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Dec 10, 2019
- 2 min
Instant recall
I careered headlong into a memory. I was simply making my way and collided, completely unexpectedly, with the back of a solid something...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
It’s on the list
I am an inveterate maker of lists. Multiple lists, in a notepad and on my phone, and a detailed paper diary keep me on track and rolling...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Nov 27, 2019
- 2 min
Gaining confidence?
Miriam Schulman is an American artist and art teacher. She is also the brains and voice behind The Inspiration Place podcast where she,...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Nov 17, 2019
- 2 min
It’s all in the detail – sometimes
I am currently editing some creative writing. It is an extensive story and is requiring quite a degree of input from me. The job has...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Nov 11, 2019
- 2 min
Doing the time
I recently went to a concert. Rod Laver arena was full and the crowd enthusiastic. Expectation was high as one of the select band of...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1 min
Time
The other day I was listening to a song, sung by Tim McGraw. The song was about how our lives get busy and we lose touch with things and...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Oct 29, 2019
- 1 min
Not much happening
Some days there’s just not much happening upstairs!! Until next time, Kirsten
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Kirsten Johnston
- Oct 21, 2019
- 1 min
Zero to one
I read the other day that there is a mathematical suggestion? theory? fact? that the distance between zero and one is greater than the...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Oct 15, 2019
- 1 min
Robust
I like the word robust. I like the way it sounds. In its quietly onomatopoeic way, it sounds as it suggests. It is a solid word, not...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min
Adolescence
Listening to a podcast this morning, I heard US artist Flora Bowley refer to that middle, often difficult time in a painting’s...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
One colour
One thing I have learned from painting is that nothing is one colour. By the time you take into consideration the light hitting an...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Sep 27, 2019
- 1 min
Questions
A while ago I had a significant gym habit. It had many positive side-effects. I have just started up again after a lay-off of eighteen...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Sep 22, 2019
- 1 min
Dislocation
My blog is dislocated. Its normal position has been disturbed. It has been ‘disrupted’ and ‘moved from its proper place or position’....
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Kirsten Johnston
- Sep 8, 2019
- 1 min
Immersion therapy
I am mid-immersion. Like soaking in a warm bath up to your neck or plunging into the ocean and, more, knowing that the experience won’t...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
Focus
Focus can be a noun. The focus. That element which captures our attention. The centre of interest or activity. It can be that place you...
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Kirsten Johnston
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
I’ll get back to you …
… or not. Recently, I have written a small handful of emails that took a great deal of courage. They were emails that ‘put myself out...
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