You must be right that conflict is situation normal. Yet, at the same time, most of us don’t live our live our lives gripped in the urgency of conflict. We know times of peace, shared interest, cooperation. Those times may be brief moments or more extended but they will be part of the rhythms of…
We meet after an absence of a few weeks and resume our primary task of remembering. Our conversation wanders between the seafaring prospect of eating soggy muesli aboard a storm tossed sailing ship to the more refined cosmopolitan pleasures of enjoying poached eggs on a bed of spinach with a hollandaise sauce on dry land, the…
I’m thinking . . . a man without qualities (character) and on the cinema screen there arises mug shots of George W Bush, Tony Blair (and his successor David Cameron), Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin . . . could we put them behind bars in a small provincial zoo so that they might be examined, interrogated,…
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.