“Upside Down” was born out of a deeply personal experience - one of corporate injustice and disillusionment. This poem explores the darkness we face in society, drawing on the metaphor of freediving.
Dive with me into the blue unknown Where the sea's mysteries are in the hearts of our own
Despair is a difficult, beautiful necessary, a binding understanding between human beings caught in a fierce and difficult world where half of our experience is mediated by loss, but it is a season, a wave form passing through the body, not a prison surrounding us. A season left to itself will always move, however slowly, under its own patience, power and volition.
They say we need to smile, but together, they smother a smile They say team, but together, they exclude one They say collaboration, but together, they make it a nightmare for one They say flexibility, but together, they are rigid for one They say empathy, but together, they are cruel for one
Richard Feynman was one of the best-known and most influential physicists of his generation. In the 1940s, he played a part in the development of the atomic bomb; in 1986, as a key member of the Rogers Commission, he investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and identified its cause; in 1965, he and two colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize “for their fundamental work in quantum…
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain.
No more sailing from harbour to harbour with this my weather-beaten boat
When you are old and grey and full of sleep