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Month: February 2008

  • Directions to Rome

    Because… – "all roads lead there", as it is commonly said. Fewer have listened to the antique Roman saying in full – “If you do not know where you are going, all roads lead there”. A useful proverb for those lost on journeys, and especially at clefts in the road, since it could be read…

  • After all it is Lent

    “Auden accepts the correction or reform of the self as a prime human responsibility and a matter with which poetry should be concerned, difficult because of what he called ‘the radical gulf between Christian faith and all worldly values.” (Frank Kermode in the LRB 7.2.08, www.lrb.co.uk) Here we were again; in that same sharp, awkward…

  • “If only we could find the right way to love” PART 2 –

    If only we could find the right way to love” EXEM PLUM 3 – by drum, dance and song – a poem, one sentence at a time: A sweetness taken and not taken towards the mouth, sooner or later seeking out the pleasure of her company, touch, the young waitress with East European looks had…

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.