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…
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…
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:
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.