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What Do I Do?

The Small Dark Light’s mission statement — My previous post was about who I am, this post is about what I write. Read on if you’re curious about what this publication is for and where I hope it ends up going. Hint: you may be involved. I want The Small Dark Light to be a meeting place…

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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What Do I Do?
What Do I Do?
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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The Small Dark Light

·Jul 28

The Third Arrow

Reacting to Your Reactions to Your Reactions — I got to be a groomsperson for the first time last weekend. My duties included running errands, posing for photos, doing the rounds making mandatory small talk with various guests to make sure they were feeling comfortable (which I can only assume they were before a stranger started talking to…

Mindfulness

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The Third Arrow
The Third Arrow
Mindfulness

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The Small Dark Light

·Jul 13

My 20-Minute Chakra Meditation

An “openminded sceptic” ventures a little deeper into New Age land — Recently I’ve started doing something different with my daily 20-minute meditation: sending my breath to different regions of my body in turn, while giving verbal messages to the parts of my personality that I associate with those areas. In other words, I’ve started messing around with chakras. …

Spirituality

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My 20-Minute Chakra Meditation
My 20-Minute Chakra Meditation
Spirituality

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The Small Dark Light

·May 14

Beginner’s Mind

Exploring a theme — A creative group I’m in recently gave us the prompt “Beginnings”. This was my contribution. There is only beginning. Perpetual beginning. Generative beginning. Everlasting beginning. The past never existed, and the future is unimaginable. What Has Been is nothing more than accusatory and exculpatory stories we tell ourselves about isolated…

Poetry

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Beginner’s Mind
Beginner’s Mind
Poetry

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The Small Dark Light

·Apr 7

Aaron and Sofia (Part 2)

A story about love and addiction, continued — This is the second half of a short story; the first half is here. All views expressed in the diary are the character’s and not mine. Wednesday 30th October There’s nothing in life except attitude and a bunch of shit for attitude to throw itself at. I never thought much…

Fiction

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Aaron and Sofia (Part 2)
Aaron and Sofia (Part 2)
Fiction

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The Small Dark Light

·Apr 1

Aaron and Sofia (Part 1)

A short story about love and addiction — I wrote this story three years ago as a sort of experiment. I find it almost impossible to write romantic fiction and my sister finds science fiction equally daunting, so as a lockdown project we challenged each other to do the impossible — I’d write a love story, she’d produce…

Fiction

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Aaron and Sofia (Part 1)
Aaron and Sofia (Part 1)
Fiction

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The Small Dark Light

·Mar 16

The Banshees of Inisherin and the Tragic Worldview

What does McDonagh’s film tell us about the nature of reality, and what are we going to do about it? — Trivial warning: this post contains The Banshees of Inisherin and I’m Thinking of Ending Things spoilers. Serious warning: it also explores topics like mental illness, despair and suicide, and although the essay is in no way intended to cause distress, some people may find certain aspects of my perspective upsetting.

Martin Mcdonagh

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The Banshees of Inisherin and the Tragic Worldview
The Banshees of Inisherin and the Tragic Worldview
Martin Mcdonagh

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The Small Dark Light

·Oct 10, 2022

The Fifth Throne, Part 2: Eta’s Story

The third druid addresses the council — Eta sits for a moment thinking about what to tell the assembled company and what to leave out. They’ve been rehearsing for this moment for days, but it’s one thing to imagine Chi’s imperious stare boring into your brain, and another to experience it in person. The others don’t have…

Fantasy

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The Fifth Throne, Part 2: Eta’s Story
The Fifth Throne, Part 2: Eta’s Story
Fantasy

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The Small Dark Light

·Sep 28, 2022

The Fifth Throne, Part 1: Tau and Rho

A druid council attempts to navigate multiple crises in a time between times — Tau is the last to arrive as usual. They enter the small clearing, scuttle through the circle of boot-flattened, dew-soaked grass, duck under the low stone arch, hang up their cowl and rustle into the chamber. Making their apologies, they take their place on the east-facing throne, a plain granite…

Fiction Series

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The Fifth Throne (Part 1)
The Fifth Throne (Part 1)
Fiction Series

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The Small Dark Light

·Sep 13, 2022

Beyond Fulfilment

Satisfaction, meaning and purpose are not enough — This post follows directly on from my last piece about Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and what it means to be happy. OK, so as I was saying….oh great, it’s Doubting Fred. Just when you think you’ve seen the last of someone. ‘This stuff about peak experiences is all…

Aldous Huxley

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Beyond Fulfilment
Beyond Fulfilment
Aldous Huxley

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Writer, composer and filmmaker, into soul music and Chinese philosophy. Editor @ The Small Dark Light

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