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Tag: Leaving Twitter

On nearly going back to Twitter

I nearly went back on Twitter the other day. Not once, but several times. One of my very lovely relatives … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, How to Leave Twitter, Leaving Social Media, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Presence, Silence, Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Twitter, Writing Process

On not tweeting: Open letter to Twitter

And what will I miss? Her cruelty, her unfaithfulness Her fun, her love, her kiss, part company The Go-Betweens, Part … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Brexit, Distraction, Leaving Twitter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Trump, Twitter

Why social media doesn’t create intelligence

Those kind and wonderful people at Change This have just released a new batch of free, downloadable manifestos. These articles … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Brain Science, Creativity, Facebook, Leaving Facebook, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Presence, Social Media, Twitter

Goodbye Facebook, it’s been real (?)

Now for the other life. The one without mistakes. –Lou Lipsitz   A year ago I found myself not looking at … More

Being a Poet, Leaving Facebook, Leaving Twitter, mindfulness, Presence, Raymond Carver, Trusting in the Process, Twitter

Pure distraction

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Don Paterson, Education, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue, Trusting in the Process, Twitter

Ignore everyone, absorb everything

During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Change This Manifestos, Creativity, Damian Furniss, How to be Creative, Hugh MacLeod, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, Myra Schneider, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Twitter, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Nothing doing

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Catherine Fox, Creativity, Education, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Poets, Presence, Social Media, Twitter

A few days

The afternoon was drawing to a close when I knew I had hit the wall. On its own terms there … More

A Few Days, Being a Poet, James Schuyler, James Schuyler June 30 1974, John Ashbery, Leaving Twitter, Lifesaving Poetry, literature, Martin Stannard, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Twitter

This may not work

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Creativity and Risk, Jo Bell, Josephine Corcoran, Jupiter Artland, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Presence, Resistance, Risk, Seth Godin, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke, Social Media, Steven Pressfield, Tara Donovan, The Icarus Deception, This may not work, Twitter, Untitled (Plastic Cups)

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