James' Coffee Blog

My home page is a poem. I designed it in this way to explore the extent to which a literary medium – a poem – could be used for navigation, for way finding. Poems help me see the world differently, to navigate thoughts. So too does navigation: every link is a bridge to...

I woke up in excitement this morning. Today is the day I can start to access my course materials for next year. My second year of university doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, but from today I can start reading through the introductory material. I spent the morning reading about the structure of the year in the art history and creative writing modules th...

You get that darkness out your head, yeah
You had it with you from the start
The lightning in your heart
~ Kid, The Revivalists

Last evening – and for the last few days – I have been feeling a little bit down. But music was with me, and helped me see through the grey clouds and look up to see a sunset unlike any other I have seen before. The way the...

We’ve gotta keep going. The words flowed back to me with unexpected fluency; the sound of the song was all it took. I sang word after word, words deep within that I forgot were there, a reminder of how much I loved the song, of how much I listened, and, in this case, of how much I played it on piano; a sound steeped in blurry significances for I can’t remember when I...

The eighteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 18, I chat with Ava, the author of blog.avas.space ab...