Topless Thinking - a blog
I’ve just posted about the Wondermentalist Cabaret – an evening of poetry, comedy, music and pleasant surprises – whose blog this blog now is. Now I want to tell you about another blog, a blog yet to come…
Once upon a time this very Wondermentalist blog was maybe going to be called, among other things, Topless Thinking. It was to have multiple contributors and be a cheeky ‘unconscious living’ companion to ‘conscious living’ blog Soul and Soil. Next year there will be a Topless Thinking blog, and this is what it’ll be about.
Topless Thinking
“Contains produce from more than one chakra”
Topless Thinking is Soul and Soil’s slightly immature yet well-meaning younger sibling. It’s concerned with the same subjects and issues but is less likely to educate and inform more likely simply to entertain and provoke. It is an opportunity for imaginative bloggers not just to think outside of the box but to box outside of the ring, to burst outside of the bubble, to sink outside of the pond, to dig outside of the allotment. It’s a place for meaningful mucking about – a chance to push the envelope of muddle-headedness through the letterbox of inappropriateness and extend metaphors beyond health and safety guidelines.
Where a Soil and Soul thread might discuss the pros and cons of small-scale education and the re-introduction of indigenous plant varieties, a Topless Thinking thread is more likely to debate who would win a staring contest between Shirley MacLaine and Deepak Chopra, or whether Hildegaard of Bingen would beat Stephen Fry in a pub quiz. (She would.) It might ponder whether tattoos really make you happy or, since the unexamined life is not worth living, whether the ungazed-at navel is really worth piercing.
Topless Thinking has its head in the clouds, its feet on the ground and its finger up its nose – foraging for truth and beauty in the least promising of places.
Topless Thinking is a celebration of unconscious living.
It is not very sensible.
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There you have it. If, having read this far, you think you’d like to contribute to the above blog, write and tell me, either here at Wondermentalist (at the end of this post) or write to me at matt.harvey@copperstrings.com or matt@mattharvey.co.uk