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Month: January 2007

  • To Paul at the Washington Post – Part 2

    After the first post to Paul, he emailed me back, his message ending with a question about my past – "I’ve wondered what waw (sic) it like to be a child in the library at Glen Cruitten?". Glen Cruitten is in Scotland, and is – for readers who do not know the location – a…

  • Raw Materials

    I can see God walking–well, let me be clear about what I can and cannot see because there’s two views alternating in some systolic, diastolic rhythm: God, an old man with regulation long beard, ambling, comfortably but with a certain elation, a certain pride in his step; and then the more difficult image of walking…

  • To Paul at the Washington Post

    I took your advice Paul. After meeting on the water returning from Burano (11 January 2007)…  … I bought myself a copy of The New Yorker at Waterloo station on Monday night to read on the ‘last train’ back to the West Country. It was full of words – just as I remembered – especially…

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.