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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.…
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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.…
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Green in India
There’s plenty of green here. Perhaps too much. mmj will report next week
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In-dust-tree
In-dust-tree The colour green can produce nausea. What is the toxic in the green? Envy? Jealousy? We have a Green Party to look after the green. We have a Tory Party, nestling in their surbanised rural retreats, to look after forever England or Britain or Ukania or whatever we might call this wonderous jewel…
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Apples More or Less Like Us
From Prognostication for 1533: “I do warn you one thing, however, if you fail to believe it all, you are doing me a bad turn for which you will be grievously punished. So now, my little lads, wipe your noses, adjust your glasses and weigh well these words…” (Rabelais) “…old age will prove incurable this…
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Ground Zero Violence
I told you to put that machete down, put it away, hide it from yourself. I knew nothing good would come out of this . . . this mess. Well, it wasn’t so much of a mess until you started waving that machete around. Then it was first my left arm and then my…
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Cutting Back Hard
They say it is for your own good. The cut backs (“The Cuts”). Is it possible to cut too far? Cut far beyond last year’s growing point. Back to the main stems. General wisdom says, the most the pruning saw cuts should be to above the first major stem divide. Hoping for new sprouts the…
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The Orchard
The glossy livid leaves and bunched flowers of ivy hung down in cloud masses from high in the old apple trees. Better to cut through at the stem and let their high branches slowly die. Then break off the thicker stems from the apple tree branches another year, when the dead ivy had died and…
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Almost surfacing
Sunday afternoon and I am caught napping by the sound of brushing. Inside, outside, I don’t know where the sound is coming from in the confusion between the dream which has been banished from memory, the sound, the possible time and day, and where I might be. This morning Gerald commented in relation…
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What a Cheek!
“Let’s watch”: the ‘O’, the beginning of everything, and the open mouth of sound (as it was described before) is starting. Yes, ‘O’ is for orifice, the original inspiration, then the loud report and vibrating buttocks that gets everything going. It is a hoot! We put up one hand. Yes, it was us, we say…
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Some sort of disorder
Is this some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder? Obsessive/compulsive tendencies? Sexual dysfunction? The need for a filing clerk? Filing clerk? Surely they don’t exist any longer. In fact the idea of any sort of clerk would seem to be so twentieth century. The tribe of clerks decimated by the incessant waves of digitisation. Drowning by…
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See You In A Minute
It is a fresh start, and at the beginning of each year I begin a new Wordstall folder. Through the year I collect in it handwritten notes, drafts and print outs of some of our posts, newspaper cuttings, book reviews, and other bits and pieces from the internet and elsewhere. Each annual Wordstall folder is…
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.