We seem to be supposed to admire and even envy Tom and Gerri's cosy contentment, but in fact their allotment-centred lives seem mind-numbingly boring.
I like Matteo's best - some people will stop in their tracks and think shrimp, the little creature that swims backwards, and maybe, just maybe, think back on their own self-centred lives and the jam that modern Italy is in.
My stay in Marajaì reinforces my belief that the questions that challenged McIntyre are radical and urgent in the self-centred times we live in.
This, he understands, is a fraught question for many writers, who for decades have been told "if you write books centred on queer lives, where the gay guy isn't just one strand, or a friend, then there are straight people for mainstream readers to identify with – but if a book really is centred on gay lives, you'll be in this gay ghetto".
As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You, which was specially commissioned for the Photographers Galleryy show.
There are the T-shirts and the tattoos; there has been This Is Water, a book made from DFW's address to the graduates of Kenyon College in 2005 urging them to live a centred and aware life, which in turn led to a hammy dramatisation that got over four million views on the internet before his estate ordered it taken down – though, of course, in the modern era nothing is ever truly gone.
Seeks a patient-centred understanding of lived experience.
'We're both intensely self-centred.' But they no longer live together.
I want to live in a citizen-centred, rights-based society.
We live in a profoundly work centred society.
The VERA framework (validation, emotion, reassurance, activity) was designed to promote person centred communication between student nurses and people living with dementia, but there is limited evaluation of its impact.
