#maiuko

Cancer 10: foreign bodies

On Monday I started the preparation for the op on July 7th, which will take this foreign body from my body. Except that it’s not really a foreign body. It may be an unwelcome development, but it’s still undoubtedly mine. And there again is that dualism, that possessive idea, as if I owned my body in much the same way I own the laptop I’m writing this on. In truth it’s not “mine” but “me”. I’ll…

I want to write about the return of music performance to my life, and think a little about what it might mean for education and the world of work.

For the last couple of years I’ve been playing violin in a band with a Mozambican singer, Maiuko. The rest of the band, drums, double bass, and piano, are seasoned jazz professionals. We play a kind of hybrid Afro-blues, with Celtic overtones (that’s…