Author, Speaker and Adventurer

FRESH EYES

Image of still water

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploration Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” TS Eliot

ATTENTION

Clouds in the sky

“Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us.” Rilke

ATTEND

Motorcycling

“I see what I see and don’t need to think much about it.” Daniel Woodrell

AWAKE

Flowers on a tree

Nothing is ordinary when I am wide awake.

AGAIN

Two men on motorcycles

  I park my motorcycle for good when our son John Ryan is seven. Throw a blanket over it in the back of the garage. I entertain the delusion that parking it will protect him from the temptation to take up cycling. Fat chance. By seventeen John Ryan has not one but two motorcycles of […]