as the nights draw in

I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused - David Ford


He sounds familiar - brittle, but never broken. A light at the periphery of vision, insistent, almost maddening - there to remind you of something you dare not forget.

The tracklist alone reads like the note that you stick beside your mirror - a mantra of all the things you said, all the places you avoid, all the people you could be.

An album comfortable to face up to contradictions - it resonates with a poem I read this week claiming - 'My tears despise my knowledge, and vice versa.' Patrick Mackie


Current highlights - Katie, If You Only Knew, Laughing Aloud.

Current favourite lyric -
'the truth
Well its for students of philosophy,
and faith is for losers like us.'

Poem for today

Metaphor


A tear flames - falls,
carrying light downwards -
another thing that won't come back.
The table you sit at is solid with factuality
that a tear won't burn a hole in.



Patrick Mackie

Word of the day

susurration

A soft, whispering or rustling sound; a murmur.

on autumns doorstep

All Maps Welcome - Tom Mcrae

Current highlights - For the Restless, Packing for the Crash, It Aint You, My Vampire Heart, Still Lost.


"I’m excited and if not happy – it’s me after all – then at least as close to peaceful as I’ve been recently. It’s a strange life at times, and I’m no closer to understanding anything, but somehow singing and writing songs is as good a map for this journey as I’ve found yet." Tom Mcrae






Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett


... set in a Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky.

Think before you lay the foundations for a lie - once built they are near impossible to demolish.








deliquesce \del-ih-KWES\, intransitive verb: 1. To melt away or to disappear as if by melting. 2. (Chemistry) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. 3. To become fluid or soft with age, as certain fungi. 4. To form many small divisions or branches -- used especially of the veins of a leaf.

Deliquesce comes from Latin deliquescere, from de-, "down, from, away" + liquescere, "to melt," from liquere, "to be fluid." It is related to liquid and liquor.