Love More

It’s not that often you see quotations in the environment so for today’s post I’m going to take advantage of having spotted this sign near Old Street at the end of a long circular walk through Shoreditch, Spitalfields and around Petticoat Lane (where I used to work in the school holidays as a teenager). This is the school where the Kemp brothers of Spandau Ballet went, as well as a range of other famous folk from DJ Trevor Nelson to Ronnie Scott, from scientist Jacob Bronowski (of ‘Ascent of Man’ fame) to architect Richard Seifert (of Centre Point fame).  

Almost all of these have crossed my path in the last few days: Gary Kemp was in the documentary ‘David Bowie: The Final Act’ I saw in the cinema yesterday, Centre Point I walked by a couple of days ago telling my Other Half that my dad is buried in the row in front of Seifert, singer Sarah Jane Morris got me a couple of tickets last week for her show at Ronnie’s next month (we’re developing a doc together). I love this kind of nexus as it is the web of connections that lies at the heart of Creativity.

Martin Luther King Jnr.’s son features in the feature documentary I worked on last year ‘Shoot the People’. That documentary and its protagonist Misan Harriman throw up big questions of love and hate, and how hate is spread. 

Hate is corrosive, poisons the system and rots the soul. The notion of choosing love is an uplifting one.