A Frame on Life

Tag: Summer

  • Alive

    Alive

    “Your ear is a muscle,” said Paul, the ukulele workshop tutor. To be alive is for the muscles of your ears to engage their most minute fibres to keep you balanced. Sometimes, you are a fiddler, balanced on a tightrope of septuplets and bodhrán with just enough give that you may make a calculated small…

  • Oh, yeah, the toothbrush

    Oh, yeah, the toothbrush

    It’s 10:54pm and my body is contentedly tired the way  it always is after a long, sunny day at the beach. I wander into the bathroom and become conscious of my presence there when I stick my hand into my toothbrush/toothpaste cup and discover the necessary items are not there. Of course they’re not, didn’t…