Mutable fire: mass psychic currents, desires, teaching and learning

In the writing workshop, there is more free association than we admit, and there is more impossibility than the form officially allows.

Cardinal air: signals in the dark, secrets coming to light

A creative block is so often about being in the liminal space where something new is waiting to emerge.

Cardinal air: new ideas, pleasure, play, obsession

Scheele’s Green: the story of arsenic-laced wallpaper and the most gorgeous colour ever to exist.

Mutable earth: locked room mysteries, the sacred and the earthly

I don’t know about you but I love stories set in haunted houses because they offer a closed set, a liminal zone for transformation to occur, and mysteries to be explored but not necessarily resolved. And because they remind me of dreaming.

Fixed fire: sun, bright colours, festivities

The bare tree still looks pretty.

The reindeer glow.

Fixed earth: sensual pleasures, bodily responses, love

As well as honouring blood that has been spilled, I want to write about blood circulating in warm bodies, flushed cheeks, and beating hearts.