Ullan's Page

A blank canvas. Why do I attempt this? Let's start at the beginning.



When this community was young, I joined. A young man with ideals, much anger within me at the way of the world, and no solutions but an eye for problems. As I became more active, some of you may remember my posts seemingly written by someone else halfway through. They were, in a sense. When the feeling came that something needed to be said, I closed my eyes and let my fingers do the typing.



Was this my… Continue

Greetings all,



Some of you may wonder why you haven't seen much of me in the last few months. My reasons are many, but mostly I feel it hasn't been safe for me to post lately. Things are happening that I would rather not discuss, but my home has been invaded several times and great care has been taken to look like nothing has been disturbed. I'm trying very hard not to think about it all, but suffice to say that I can tell when someone has been messing around my personal documents… Continue

Greetings all.



Some of you may wonder where I've been in the last few months. Others probably don't know me well enough to have noticed I was gone to begin with. To both, however, the message is the same: I am still here.



Despite an emotionally draining few months that has seen me detach a lot of junk from my life, centering myself as my carefully crafted life came tumbling down, gaining antibodies to H1N1 the hard way, two attempts on my life and criminal damage done to… Continue

Dear all.



We get told by so many sources that we co-create or even entirely create our own reality. The strength that we possess, so we are told, is the power of imagination and thought. What we think, and how we react to that, will steer our reality and with it the future of ourselves and those around us. We get told to start thinking of how we want things to be, how we wish for things to go ahead, and are assured that somehow reality will find a way to make that… Continue

Greetings all.



As should no longer be a surprise to anyone, the G20 is due to start in a scant few hours here in London. As a resident that has seen the Tube bombings, the many scares and the frequent outbreaks of disorderly conduct, I feel I am uniquely placed to observe that which will unfold.



Let me begin by saying I am not afraid.



A great many residents though are very scared right now. In a city of ten million with tensions bubbling beneath the surface, a… Continue