by Michael Angus | May 7, 2018 | Events
On February 11th 2017, I hosted a book launch for my second book of children’s stories:
‘THE POINTLESS ROSE (and Further Assorted Stories for Children)’.
The event was held in the Victoria Halls, Helensburgh, attended by over 80 friends and family.
Readings of two of the stories (‘The Sacred Store’ and ‘The Boy Who Changed the World’) were performed by storyteller Alice Fernbank, and presentations were also made by Dr Karen McLeod, cardiology consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, and Aileen McConnell of Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.
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Altogether, the event raised almost £2000 for the charity.
by Michael Angus | May 7, 2018 | Events
In January 2017, I completed a three day challenge trek in the Arctic.
The trek, organised by ‘Breaking Strain Events’, was a Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity initiated event, attended by sixteen other fundraisers for the charity.
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Set in Rovaniemi, in Finland, the trek lasted three full days, of walking and also camping ‘on the ice’.
It was the conclusion of almost a year and a half worth of trekking and fundraising, which raised over £15,000 in total for the charity. The trek itself raised over £200,000.
by Michael Angus | May 7, 2018 | Blog
The topic for this weeks Sunday Post has been eluding me – not because there’s nothing to say; rather because there’s too much …. it seems to be coming true, the expectation, that once the posting got started again, it would not stop …. fitting really, I suppose, as metaphorical reiteration of the commonly misunderstood fact/s re grief: that one ‘gets over’ it, that one ‘moves on’, that one ‘heals’ ….. I can’t speak for ‘natural’ grief, but as for the ‘un-natural’, both experience and research is confirming the inaccuracy of such perceptions. I’m not ‘moving on’, I’m learning to live with my grief, adapting and growing – I was about to say: ‘within its constrictions’, but I am discovering that though there are definitely limiters, there are also stimuli which are effecting a surprising and therefore curious sense of release and freedom…. it’s called ‘hope’, I think; hope, unbridled, which is proving to be a rather heady tonic.
I didn’t see that coming …..but then again, why would I? No-one preps you for this….
This week I was invited to be panellist on the BBC Radio Scotland Steven Jardine Show to share experience of ‘bereavement and the workplace.’ The invite came hard upon another event recently attended: a conference organised by the ‘Scottish partnership for palliative care’ (Good Life/Good Grief/Good Grief)’.
Both events were focussed on differing aspects of loss – nevertheless I could not help but feel heartened by the very fact of their occurrence. Within both events the (increasingly familiar) point was made, that bereavement will affect everyone, but it is a misunderstood phenomenon, extensively and both culturally and individually.
This ignorance, iteratively enhanced, only breeds additional distress, to which I can most certainly attest – which I suppose is one reason why I write. There is an implicit desire to explain all of this; though it may be cathartic there is an increasing sense of responsibility, to inform ….
When I was at the conference I was explaining to a delegate, about the circumstances of Christopher’s death and the subsequent support, or lack of rather – and I was kindly asked: ‘what would have helped?’ This question is provoking a considerable amount of reflection, but critically, there’s one thing above all else that comes to the fore: ‘knowledge’.
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Song for the moment: ‘Blinded by the Light’ by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
Love to all,
Mx
by Michael Angus | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Training for Grand Canyon Trek in April has picked up dramatically. Doubled in fact, from the previous month – to 14,900 steps (that’s 74.5 miles by my simplified reckoning….)
The single greatest contributor was the (Glasgow) Kiltwalk, 23 miles in a day …. funny the things one gets disappointed about, I’d thought it was 26 miles, I was hoping to break my record (and finally complete a marathon…) – that challenge shall have to wait, therefore.
It was nevertheless, a remarkable day – to be walking alongside 10,000 people all out earning blisters for charity. I wasn’t in the best of moods on the day itself, but there’s not much I can do about the blues invasion – so it certainly didn’t hurt, to push the blues down into a shameful hole. Feeling modestly proud therefore (if such a feeling is possible) to have kiltwalked and to have covered significantly more ground this month, even without the Kiltwalk.
Such is the value of putting things in the diary – keeps the motivation motivated…it’s been a good month, getting things moving again. Got the delightful achy leg feeling back …. muscles being tested, and stretched, but the real plus is: that the mind can’t help but go along for the ride. The endorphins cannot and never do hurt…..
Next month, plan is to keep the training rate at least in the 1000 steps bracket, prep for next training Trek in June: Hadrian’s Wall.
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All funds raised go to the Christopher Angus Fund, supporting initiatives in the cardiology unit of the Royal Hospital for Children.
Training song for the month: ‘5.15’ by The Who (training…gettit?)
Love to all,
Mx
by Michael Angus | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Lately I’ve been rather consumed (even more so than usual…..) with a piece of music that changed my life: ‘Tommy’ by The Who.
This consumption has been provoked by (finally) getting an opportunity to play it live, and in its entirety – with a sterling bunch of fellow Who fans, in our band: ‘The Substitutes’.
It’s actually harder to play than expected, much harder than it is to listen to (- so often the case!): to remember the length of bars, the structure, the changes…… it’s getting there though; and it’s definitely getting me fitter in the process: trying to play like Keith Moon for hours at a time is unquestionably, a workout.
I suppose I could sit back, and coast – but that’s never been my musical nature, I never learnt the art of compromise in playing music, not in drumming. It’s an anathema in rock music anyway, coasting, and most decidedly when playing the Who – the ‘all or nothing’ rule applies; if no passion, no point – and there’s scope for performing with a passion totally unfettered when playing ‘Tommy’.
It’s seriously powerful stuff………musically, emotionally, and personally …..
Something about the central themes of ‘Tommy’ resonated from the very first time of hearing it – the ‘inner search’, the isolation from others, the appeal for understanding, the revelation of vulnerability, the desire to connect, the discovery of unquestionable truth….. I could never have predicted that such themes should become a tangible reality in my own life.
The premise of the narrative for those that don’t know, is that a child is traumatised, and as such becomes emotionally distanced from real life, manifested physically by becoming (apparently) deaf, dumb and blind – but ‘his eyes can see, his ears can hear, his lips, speak’, there is in fact no actual loss of sensory capability, there is only withdrawal – until such time as an act of rage shatters the illusion; the mirror is broken provoking, dramatically, a sudden release and re-birth….but then folly ensues. Though well meaning, misguided appropriation of the newly found knowledge, as means to enlighten others, leads to dissent, revolution – and ultimately, redemption: from the ruination comes a re-affirmation of the core truth…..
Your fairly typical late 60’s pop album then….we’ll, maybe not. It’s hardly a lightweight in its overarching thematic aspirations – and delves into topics that would most likely be stalled contemporarily, of abuse, physically and psychologically ….but what I now find so remarkable, is how accurately trauma is portrayed. I could never have appreciated this accuracy had trauma not featured so recently in my life …. it’s capacity to isolate, and to disable sense and reason.
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I know in the year succeeding Christopher’s death I walked and talked, slept and ate, went to work and applied myself; I functioned basically – but I have virtually no recollection of any of this …. this period of time is all a blur. What I can remember are only snapshots, surreal and fleeting memories as if from a dream. I have no sense of hearing, seeing, or feeling, other than a crippling sense of compression and distance.
Tommys release from such a state is effected by a deliberate and enforced act … my shifts of comprehension have been effected much less dramatically, my mirrors smashed as of in slow motion – but the realisation of more profound truths no less of an epiphany, the re-birthing, as astounding and total….and the subsequent search for meaning, so prevalent at the albums centre, undeniably paralleled.
I can only be grateful to the author – to have scribed such a piece of work; but more so, to have presented so openly, what are obviously deeply, deeply felt concerns, and feelings which are in fact staggeringly raw – and seem ever more so now, witnessed as they are through eyes and ears subjected since to the worst of life circumstance.
Such it seems to me, is the value of words…. and put to such music…. but words, more than anything, derived and arranged so as to reveal, and by doing so, explain the inexplicable….and thereby, comfort. If we none of us shared, our isolation would be both enhanced and consolidated – and as mentioned previously, isolation is the last thing I need, (especially not if effected by duress…. as it was, with Tommy.)
I’m tempted therefore to cite ‘1921’ as the song for the week, in acknowledgement of the undue and negative influence of others….but I think not. Going to go with ‘I Can’t Explain’, by The Who of course ….. where it all began.
The Substitutes set starts with this song …..we’re described as a tribute act, but it’s definitely no act…..
Love to all,
Mx
