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  • I breathe therefore I am

      What is this? Where am I? Are these the white tiles of the morgue? I think I can hear the whispered voices around me. Is he breathing? No we’re too late, let’s see where the breath has gone, open him up, see if we can catch the last and final fleeting thoughts. Ha ha!…

  • I breathe therefore I am

    What is this? Where am I? Are these the white tiles of the morgue? I think I can hear the whispered voices around me. Is he breathing? No we’re too late, let’s see where the breath has gone, open him up, see if we can catch the last and final fleeting thoughts. Ha ha! There…

  • I breathe therefore I am

    What is this? Where am I? Are these the white tiles of the morgue? I think I can hear the whispered voices around me. Is he breathing? No we’re too late, let’s see where the breath has gone, open him up, see if we can catch the last and final fleeting thoughts. Ha ha! There…

  • Some kind of painkiller

    Some kind of painkiller

    Call it freedom – that stuff we all want more of. Where do I find the guides to help unravel the perplexities of daily life? Up there? Down here? The casual meeting in the street? ‘Whatever may be meant by moral landscape.’* Archaic corners of the industrial wasteland where only cold winds blow. OK, the…

  • Ventrem Omnipotentem

    Ventrem Omnipotentem

    “And I wrote her an answer, just for to let her know That no young man would venture where he once could not go, O he once could not go.” * She provides the allegorical element, Uncle Wally added thereby setting himself off on his latest ‘last adventure’ again. From which arises that essential feeling…

  • What if I am not ambitious?

    Or worse, what if I am really ambitious but too scared to admit it and then to find myself wanting? Lacking drive and skills, courage and the fear of humiliation and failure. That what happened was that many years ago I attempted to opt for a quiet life only to be faced with the depredations…

  • Intrusions

    Intrusions

    Energy, potential, conflict, resistance . . . the lively daring of democracy that must struggle with the tendency for power to entrench itself and with a mixture of clever advertising, propaganda and scapegoating, plus the occasional demonstration of the willingness to use lethal power. Power and it’s paymaster, wealth. It seems that as long as…

  • You Are Pulling My Leg, Aren’t You?

    You Are Pulling My Leg, Aren’t You?

    PART I There is a lot of green in India. Probably too much. The artist Howard Hodgkin will be exhibiting a group of new paintings later this year. Some of the paintings connect with the part of his life which he spends in India each year. He stays mostly on the west coast for about…

  • Build me my ark of gold

    Exactly how long will this rain continue? No, I know you can’t tell me but, you see, I journeyed long and hard to escape the Devon rain only to discover that it is much the same in London. And I only have a couple of days here before I have to head back to Devon.…

  • Build me my ark of gold

    Exactly how long will this rain continue? No, I know you can’t tell me but, you see, I journeyed long and hard to escape the Devon rain only to discover that it is much the same in London. And I only have a couple of days here before I have to head back to Devon.…

  • Build me my ark of gold

    Exactly how long will this rain continue? No, I know you can’t tell me but, you see, I journeyed long and hard to escape the Devon rain only to discover that it is much the same in London. And I only have a couple of days here before I have to head back to Devon.…

  • Build me my ark of gold

    Exactly how long will this rain continue? No, I know you can’t tell me but, you see, I journeyed long and hard to escape the Devon rain only to discover that it is much the same in London. And I only have a couple of days here before I have to head back to Devon.…

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.