Month: September 2006

  • no time for anger

    They say that a journey begins with the first step; suddenly that first step appears to be both full and empty at the same time: an act of courage (Simone Weil) and a letting go of all connection with every step taken in the past. How do we let go of a past that has…

  • Falling into the Narrative

    Letter from my Good Friend with news from the Turtle Mountain Monastery: "As Autumn begins to show, the rain drops tipped on downward hanging leaves. And I wait with eagerness the ‘shades of red and purple with yellow veins’ promised for the leaves of the Vitis vinifera Brandt planted outside the study window last Spring.…

  • THISISwhere we meet

    to meet Alan Kirby and Max Mackay-James go to our blog at akirbymmjamesagency.co.uk

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.