by Kathryn | 14 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
I am known for having a very poor sense of direction. You know when people say, “You can’t possibly get lost on that route?” I take some pride in being the person who absolutely can get lost on that route. Once, I got lost on a canal. Sometimes, my lack of direction...
by Kathryn | 13 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
Long before Alan Garner was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he wrote novels which informed the imaginations of a generation of British children. And after The Owl Service and the Weirdstone of Brisingamen were published, Garner wrote other books. While he wrote, he...
by Kathryn | 12 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Three
My father was a horse breeder and breaker. Riding was to him as natural as walking. I was the fifth child, the youngest by far, so by the time I came along my father’s bones were already beginning to wear. But when I was very young, we would drive to Stroud to watch...
by Kathryn | 11 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Two
Your seventh day is a day of rest, a day or replenishment. Sometimes, too, it can be a day of creating space. With silence, with solitude. Or with preparation. I have a friend who spends her Sunday evenings cooking batch meals for the week ahead. A big pot of tomato...
by Kathryn | 10 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Two
During this week of curiosity, we’ve pondered the magic of the phrase ‘what if’. There are two other phrases that have a creative power to them. (I’m sure there are scores, but these are my special two). The first is the phrase beloved of TheatreSports...
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