Tag: JDS Insights
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JDS Insights: Feb 2013
Writing that post in January helped a lot. Perspective shifted again in February with some news that went to my core. It made me think about how I define myself. What makes me who I am? My actions? My choices? Stuff that happens to me? The more I thought about it, the more I began…
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JDS Insights: January 2013
Yeah. January. Well. I think there’s only one post that can sum up that month…and that’s Live Shit Binge and Purge. So yeah – more death in January. Hah – that sounds like a good name for a band. January is always the whole looking back, looking forward thing. But sometimes life has a way…
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JDS Insights: December 2012
And there I was. Looking back and another year passed. It started so optimistically. And ended…well not un-optimistically. Just tired. Commitment ended. And space began to emerge. No doubt something will fill it. I also got to experience some live music – on a local level – at a venue I played when I was…
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JDS Insights: November 2012
This month there was death. And it was difficult to deal with. In the way that any death is. It was also Ten Years of YLGS. That made me think a lot. How much things have moved on. It’s not about the person who starts it – it’s more about whether the idea keeps going.…
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JDS Insights: October 2012
Holiday…can you tell? This month I was another year older. My ambivalence towards ageing increases with each year that passes. But the holiday was a chance to relax and drink in another perspective. And also forget. So I did. Read the block of text below and have a think about what emerges. ——- Onward to…
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JDS Insights: September 2012
What if he was *my* chemistry teacher? September: the days draw in, darkness descends and we return to school. Summer is over. The longer I’ve taught, the more attuned I’ve become to the rhythm and routine of the year. September is a month that really marks the beginning of the cycle; another year begins. This…
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JDS Insights: August 2012
This year’s summer holiday was not really any different to others. I read, I explored my writing a bit more, I shopped, I spent time in coffee shops…the usual. As well as that – we celebrated ten years of being together and five years of marriage. I can’t believe it’s gone so quickly. It did…
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JDS Insights: July 2012
Hilariously twisted, maniacally funny and disturbingly lucid. That was then. This is now. It’s December. It’s nearly Christmas and here I am writing about July. Sometimes I wonder is it better never than late? July was a memorable month for the country. Who could forget Olympics? The Olympic Ceremonies represented London and this country: horribly…
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JDS Insights: June 2012
No screens! Following on from the wonders of exams, June is full of report-writing for teachers. Most of mine had been done a little earlier because the pupils I teach tend to go on exam leave before the rest of the school. It *should* have felt more like the summer was approaching, winding down time…
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JDS Insights: May 2012
It’s in your head… For a teacher May is a month brought sharply into focus because of those little things called exams. The particularly depressing weather through the month didn’t really help matters – in my mind it was supposed to be warmer, sunnier and feeling like the end of the year was approaching. Instead…