Is Milky Chance bringing back the 2010s?
Feeling nostalgic? Milky Chance’s Trip Tape III is a sun-soaked, folktronica-filled trip back to the 2010s. Ailsa Gillies advises sunglasses for this — even if it dropped in September. Continue reading Is Milky Chance bringing back the 2010s?
Bargaining My Soul
This poem captures the tension experienced on what Robert Frost called ‘The Road Less Travelled’. Ailsa Gillies dialogues with the soul when she takes it to auction. Continue reading Bargaining My Soul
A Plea in the Passing of Time
No one talks about that silent space during transformation. Where you’re ready for your new life, but not quite done with your old one. This poem captures exactly that – vulnerable, desperate…and ready. Continue reading A Plea in the Passing of Time
5 things you didn’t know about Ettrick Bay
Tea parties, concerts, donkey rides, shipwrecks, history-making flights and hurricane destructions — and that’s just a standard night out in Rothesay.
These are 5 things you might not know about Ettrick Bay. Continue reading 5 things you didn’t know about Ettrick Bay
Checkbox liberalism is ruining film & TV
Can liberalism ever go too far in art? Ailsa Gillies explores the counterproductive consequences when storytelling is confined to the safety of checkboxes in TV shows such as You. Continue reading Checkbox liberalism is ruining film & TV
A Psalm from the Window
‘How easy humans are to love when they’re not performing’, says Ailsa Gillies in this piece that finds reverence in the ordinary and compassion for humans when they’re the most ‘themselves’. Continue reading A Psalm from the Window
Something Borrowed
Everything in life – time, love, possessions, and experiences – are something borrowed. Ailsa Gillies explores the fleeting nature of life and the illusion of ownership. Continue reading Something Borrowed
The Price of Pomegranates
Transformation. Death and rebirths. The duality of beauty and pain. The messiness that comes with ‘pomegranates’, the metaphor for a life rich with experience.
These are all the things that Ailsa Gillies explores in this visceral and raw piece of lyrical prose. Continue reading The Price of Pomegranates
Lilac & Lemon
This poem explores the eternal bond between sisters, rooted deeply in the fabric of time. It navigates the themes of unconditional love, shared history, and the interconnectedness of all life—whether through blood, roots, or stories by the fire. Continue reading Lilac & Lemon
Olives & Roses
This love poem, set in the Tuscan mountains, intertwines two cultures through the symbolism of the olive & the rose. Ailsa Gillies explores love as a journey, not a destination – a celebration of the moments between milestones and the creation that takes place when two become one. Continue reading Olives & Roses
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