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Month: December 2006

  • CHRISTMAS DAY – The Journey accross the Boundary

    A pain in the knuckle of the fourth finger – the ring, the one that also supports the fingers and thumb that holds the pen in my right hand; joint swelling, the crackle of crepitus, and bruising; from recent spade work creating a small new vegetable garden, outside the walls so that rabbit netting must…

  • By way of a post script

    This morning’s Guardian carried the headline: “Religion does more harm than good – poll 82% say faith causes tension in country where two thirds are not religious” No wonder I often feel like keeping quiet about my religious leanings! Yesterday, sitting on a train and coming to an end of a very slow read of…

  • Never a day off . . . (ak)

    This morning a sparkling walk on Dartmoor in glorious sunshine and freezing air; a circular walk from Hay Tor Vale to Hound Tor and return via Hay Tor and thence to Hay Tor Vale for a drink (it is Christmas!) at the Rock Inn. A familair walk (three and a half hours) for us (mmj…

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.