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Month: July 2008

  • Seeing

    Let us agree, reality is not something that I (or you) will ever grasp in its entirety or its essence, but there is every reason to hope that we will receive glimpses. And if we are graced with such glimpses how do we use them to feed into the construction of our lives? One glimpse…

  • How I write

    How I don’t write. Always in the news, according to Salman (aged 61), nothing gets in the way, when asked recently by a reporter how he kept it up last year while his marriage to Padma Lakshmi was falling apart, You would’nt expect a carpenter to give up working, would you, he replied, so why…

  • Oh, that vice

    Boston’s, Wednesday, munching on one of their chunky avocado, tapenade, sun dried tomato and spinach sandwiches, slurping on their ‘home-made’ lemonade – actually a nice balance of sweet/sour. There we were trying to set our minds to the question of the big narrative versus fragments – those disconnected moments of life before they’re dragooned into…

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.