Owl on April 3rd, 2009

Some while ago, hidden in a dusty corner of my parents’ loft, I found an old trunk. In it my adoring mother had hoarded bundles of letters and drawings I made as a child. This is a very early example. I remember drawing it. The house was not hard to draw. Door, windows, chimney and [...]

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Owl on January 14th, 2009

Visualise something and you’re well on your way to understanding it better. See what I mean? Take a look at my last post. But don’t your other senses get a look in? The words we use give us plenty of clues to what we are doing in our heads. SOUND I would have thought that [...]

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Owl on January 11th, 2009

“I see,” said the blind man. But he didn’t see at all. We used to chant that to each other at school. Unkindly of course, but who said school children were always the soul of consideration? ‘I see’ has long been taken to mean ‘I understand’. Look at the words we use to describe how [...]

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