When one locks down the body, the mind, in all its fickle nature, is released.
That thing we hardly need to consider, well for much of the time anyway, steps from behind the confines of busyness and buying, of bickering and blundering, puts its hands on the bars and looks down.
It listens as we take guesses on the future and make our promises, our New Times resolutions.
And we so desperately want it back in beside us, where it belongs. “We think therefore we are”.
Tie down the body, and the mind goes for its specified 24 hour a day exercise, 2 metres apart.
Before graduating in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 1995, I worked as a master joiner/carpenter. Following graduation from university, I studied for a post-graduate diploma in Community Education and worked as a literacy tutor in Community Learning and Development. I have gained education awards and published an academic paper on the use of Scots language in family literacy work. I have produced teachers' notes for the Scottish Book Trust.
My first work of fiction, Justified Sinner, was completed in 2016. Since then I have published three more novels in the JP Associate series.
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