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How often have you heard the expression ‘it’s off the map’, or ‘I haven’t planned for this’, or ‘there is no routemap for what I am going through?’ The language of life often delineates where we go and what we are prepared to try. ‘That’s off limits’, or ‘don’t go there’ have far more impact… Read more
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What do people hear – you or your voice? Is your voice saying things about you without you knowing? As someone who didn’t speak until I was five years old and who has intermittently lost my voice at times of stress in my life, I am interested in matters of the voice. What does your… Read more
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Sea Whispers On the less travelled side of the horizon Two gypsy birds slide along the Channel trades The sun inlaying their jewel antics. When we were young our bodies wrote love in the sand We burned without fear of carcinoma And every star was a supernova Pieces that couldn’t help fitting together… Read more
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You’ll have yours. I’ve got mine. Sixteen British Indie pop songs and one Swedish classic that changed the world. Inside my head at least. Some are deleted and impossible to find, one or two are recent and surprisingly capable of making a veteran Indie roller catch a little tear somewhere back in the throat. Geneva,… Read more
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It’s liberating not to be an expert. Great to admit that there’s a million things that I simply don’t know. All I’m sure about is that I’m still curious. For example, I don’t know for sure if the Earth is warming up or that the Poles are thawing at a faster rate than the oceans… Read more
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We often get to a place of stasis or resignation in our lives. Stalemate is the endgame in Chess where the King is safe, but is cornered and trapped by his opponent’s pieces. It’s his turn to move but he is not permitted to move into a place of danger. When neither player is… Read more
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When you’re sick and tired of everybody lying to you you just want to walk away….. walk right into better days if you can just stop wanting it….. it will come to you I know you try….. but don’t try too hard when I see you cry….. it breaks my heart I won’t stop loving you…..… Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Top 25 Albums of 2009 1. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 2. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains 3. Grammatics – Grammatics 4. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances 5. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter 6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 7. The XX – The XX 8. Bombay… Read more
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My colleague Andrew Sercombe and I had a great conversation over lunch last Tuesday about people’s fear of stepping out and following their heart in pursuit of their true passion. I came up with the title of the blog – Quitting the Fear Factory – that seemed to encapsulate that feeling of petrified stasis. Andrew… Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Albums of the Decade Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes The Veils – The Runaway Found The Dears – No Cities Left Acorn – Hope Glory Mountain Wild Beasts – Two Dancers Grammatics – Grammatics Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains Damien Rice – O British Sea Power – Do you like… Read more
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