I’ve really enjoyed reading Jeff Tweedy’s book How to write one song – a pocket-sized edition focused on taking the first step of writing a song (as distinct from becoming a songwriter). In the first chapter he makes this statement: Maybe it’s a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns – what …
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Mr Black tour at Distillery Botanica
Mr Black is an incredibly delicious cold-brew coffee liqueur which is created (relatively) local to us on the Central Coast of NSW. We’ve been enjoying it for years – but it has really started to gain popularity through Australia and internationally. Recently they’ve been running tours at the distillery where they create everything – so …
2021: Looking forward
I’ve never really liked the idea of ‘resolutions’ as such. They always feel like grand gestures. Huge changes which seem, by their very nature, to be set up to fail. What I do like is this thought…
When I look back on 2021 – what things will I be proud of, and glad I did.
2020: A retrospective
Enough has been written about 2020. For my own reference (and a reminder for the future) I wanted to note the things I’m grateful for coming out of 2020.