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Kidnapping, Courage and Protest

October 22, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

What does it take for us to risk our lives in defence of what we value? We’ve seen protesters in…

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Jonathan Franzen On Why We Want to Be Loved, Not Liked

October 16, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The novelist, Jonathan Franzen, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College this year and it was such powerful stuff that…

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The Littlest Hobo – An Inspiration to Travel

October 9, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I think I owe a good deal of my nomadic existence to a kid’s television program from the 80’s called…

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Songs

God’s Own Dancers

September 21, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrW_r3k1Q You’re the flame in the fire, dancing free, Ignite my desire, how I long to be Your lover, but…

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The Rainbow Musical, Portugal 2011

September 4, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

This was a dream come true for me. Thanks to everyone involved! (Here’s another version with better sound but no…

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Songs

The Freedom Song – Under the Rainbow…

July 3, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I finally managed to write a song about the Rainbow without any irony in it…. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8avP7BmJU0 Thanks to Yasmin for…

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The Story of the Ancient Polynesian Navigators

June 28, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

You think of a navigator and you picture someone bent over charts and maps, studying a sextant and making longhand…

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The Courage of Sinead O’Connor

June 24, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The strength of character shown here by Sinead O’Connor really blew me away. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fVxcT00Sc She was due to sing at…

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Thoughts

Graffiti Love Story – How Could You Do That to Me, Mary?

May 13, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

One man’s forlorn message to the world, painted on concrete and lasting for years.

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Theo Jansen and His Magical Creatures

February 2, 2011 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Theo Jansen makes herds of beasts out of plastic tubes that will live their lives on beaches, powered by the wind.

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Songs

Alternative Rainbow Songs

December 22, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

These are some of the songs I’ve written about the rainbow gatherings. When I first started going to rainbows I…

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Stories

Hitchhiker at the Crossroads – Travel Comic

December 17, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

With the wonderful artwork of Daniela Petrozzi, this is my first comic – a voyage through themes of hitchhiking, immigration,…

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How Loki Killed Baldr – Stories of the Norse Gods

November 30, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

A story of the trickster god, Loki, and how too much goodness and purity is just asking for trouble.

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Stories

The Tale of Abu Hasan and the Fart – 1001 Nights

November 30, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

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Songs

I Love All of Me

October 28, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I always loved the melody of the classic jazz song, All of Me, but it was way too self-pitiful so I rewrote it with a positive feel.

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The Most Bizarre Creation Myth – the Norse Legend

October 15, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Clouds made from giant brains, humans from drops of sweat and the sun and moon desperately trying to outrun ferocious wolves in vain – the vikings easily had the coolest creation story.

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Stories

The Inichua – The Amazonian Tribe Who Believed Everything

October 15, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The indigenous tribe in the Colombian jungle had no word for ‘to lie’ or ‘to deceive’ and so were tragically ill-equipped to meet the modern world.

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Stories

Salim and the Flying Carpet

October 15, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Our story concerns a kingdom deep in the Middle Easy, long ago, ruled by an old sultan whose wise and…

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Stories

Fea – The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

October 15, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

There was once born a baby girl so beautiful that one of the nurses screamed in delight, picked her up…

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Once Upon a Time There Were No Cell Phones

October 9, 2010 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I was walking down the street some time ago and I heard a man explain to his son: “You see,…

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