"I"

I: the singular first person pronoun; myself, the speaker, or my imagined self.

Much of what I write here is written from this point of view. It is not always my point of view. Placing speech marks around the letter, the word, encourages me to think more carefully about its meaning.

"I" declares distance from me to you and invites your scrutiny. My hope is that by expressing my thoughts as I, you are more willing to come closer, and that "we" are given chance and voice.

The Truth About Lies

I lie to reach my objective. This may be in the interest of myself, or others.

I lie to protect. I lie about my actions, my behaviour, and my past. I lie about others, I lie to myself.

I fail to recognise my lies and call them something else. I search for lies in others.

One lie leads to another.

The less I lie, the more in truth I gain.

Rain Falls

I live on an island where the weather's voice is my constant companion:

The uncertainty of sky, the moving cloud, the changing wave of air, of sea.

On this morning, rain falls. Drops patter with the song of birds before they sink into the suckling earth.

Rain, like the artist, is defined by its falling.