Month: August 2011

  • Action and Language

    At what point do I make the shift from passivity to action? Make that decision to get out of the chair and do something? Last week we were amazed by the eruption of rioting; the sparks of wildfire blowing in the wild winds leaving no area that could really be called ‘safe’. It was a…

  • Nearly (out of) Sight

    The last word on the subject – Yes, like an extended essay on grief – as if it was being interminably beamed back from a fast disappearing speck on the far reaches of the cosmos, a Voyager (“a futile, man-made machine, a gleaming spider in empty space, wafting past lifeless planets where sorrow had never…

  • Shadows in the glass

    I came out of The Tree of Life with one possible interpretation on my mind – I had just sat rather uncomfortably through an extended essay on grief. Whose grief, I’m not sure – the director’s? Mine? The world’s? No, way beyond that, the grief of the universe. It could have been called The Black…

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.