Eva Bonnier

I found myself captivated by this portrait of Julia Hasselberg painted by Eva Bonnier. Eva Bonnier was a Swedish artist and this painting is of her lover’s illegitimate daughter who Eva adopted after Julia’s father’s death.
This girl has a look which is very familiar to me. It’s a combination of pain and resilience. There’s reserve, [...]

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Red White and Blue

french family, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Here’s a variation on my Five Days, Five Colours idea.
I was in France on the weekend of Bastille Day so I thought I’d go out and photograph red, white and blue.
Here’s the set of photos I took

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Who am I?

It is that loving you as much as I have been able to manage has defined the person that I am. That is who I have become.
Sebastian Faulks. Human Traces.
How do we gain a sense of self? How do we answer the question “Who am I?” It seems to me that we gain a sense [...]

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The evolution of heroes

Evolution is a passage from the most automatic to the most voluntary.
Sebastian Faulks. Human Traces.
The zombie life is the automatic life. Becoming the hero of your own personal story involves developing awareness and making more and more conscious choices.

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traces…..

ripples in the sand, originally uploaded by bobsee.

Then the long trail of her footprints, stretching back towards the sea, became slowly indistinct as each one filled with water and edged in upon itself; and in a matter of minutes, as darkness began to fall, the shape of the foot was lost at every [...]

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Human Traces

Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks (ISBN 978-0-099-45826-5) is a novel of ideas. Set in the late 19th, early 20th century it tells the story of two young men who become idealistic doctors, determined to work together to understand mental illnesses so that they can cure them. In addition, they hope that in understanding the interface [...]

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Raindrops on a spider’s web

web water 1, originally uploaded by bobsee.
As i walked to my front door this evening something sparkly caught my eye.
Look at this!
It’s raindrops lying on a spider’s web! I’ve never seen a range of water droplets of such varying shapes and sizes before. This is SO different from how dew or frost looks [...]

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Becoming a hero…..slowly

I read a great post on the SlowDownNow.org blog. In it Christopher Richards describes his experience of being looked after by a doctor who took his time, then his experience of trying to find a new doctor after this first one had retired.
I’m pretty sure we’re losing something really important with our current round of [...]

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Getting published

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
Hands up if you recognise that opening line……
David Lassman, the director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath decided to copy out opening chapters of Jane Austen novels, changing only character names [...]

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Why your uniqueness matters

The Guardian today has an article about a research paper published back in May in the British Journal of Psychiatry. There are more and more attempts to control the future in our society. Predictive statistical models are increasingly being used by everyone from supermarkets (to “target” their marketing to you on the basis of what [...]

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