This is the essence of time: it moves invisibly, only noticeable through the changing of the Seasons or the artificial record of the clock. It is marked in our minds through events and memories, which can seem so present until at last we realise that feeling of a memory has started to fade: the memory … Continue reading Begin Again: 2021
Author: CLB
I read for the love of stories, big and small, and also greater understanding of our world; I write for clarity and the agonising joy of it. Scotland based, Texas born and raised.
Blow over
Like many things, it started with a tweet. Back in June the CEO of the multi-million dollar fitness company Crossfit, Greg Glassman, posted a tweet in response to a public health policy think-tank's reaction to the death of George Floyd: Glassman owns 100% and is the CEO of a company who advocates a fitness methodology … Continue reading Blow over
Pilgrim Stars
On the nature of growing up and moving away.
“bUt wHaT abOuT WhiTe ChIckS?!?”
In which White Chicks, the movie, is the centre of the British internet for far too long.
Volver
I will be leaving my Xalapeña house in 5 hours to return to Texas. I am confused right now as one part of me is absolutely ecstatic to go home to family and friends and driving on long stretches of Texas highways. The other part of me is sorrowed to leave this country I have … Continue reading Volver
Dimmi, Dimmi, Dimmi
(Tell me, tell me, tell me.) The house is filled with the aroma of beans cooking on the stove top, a rich smell of onions and garlic and something unidentifiable to my American nose. This Friday morning is grey and weepy, and my state of mind reflects those grey clouds that roll on past my … Continue reading Dimmi, Dimmi, Dimmi
Rewriting the Dream
A few months back my Facebook news feed was abound with posted commentary about the riots that were widespread in the U.K., mostly expressing satirical condemnation á là Stephen Colbert (“im thinking of flying over there and getting some free shit”) to thoughtful opinion,“The anger and fear of the disaffected youth is, as you say, … Continue reading Rewriting the Dream
Break me off a piece of that….
There are few joys more wonderful than satisfying a hungry stomach with good food. On a stomach grumbling for nourishment, the senses come alive with the first bite and with every bite after; that is of course if you don’t overdo it. But the first bite-and maybe the one or two following- is something special. … Continue reading Break me off a piece of that….
To Settle in Another
To be human is to move. Life is found in movement, as well as the spaces in between action (non-action), but always there is an impulse to reach further, go a bit farther,and travel beyond those parameters set before you, whether they be the rules your parents had set for you as a teenager, breaking a federal … Continue reading To Settle in Another
CLB Collins 