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Category: REPARATIVE Readings

  • Flirting with Danger

    Pimlico powercut, Snow is coming from the north. The men grunt silently. The women are streaming.  It is the realm of fear and contrary to all the best scientific evidence I am still breathing. In fact I am breathing easily and the air smells curiously fresh. Ok the written word is proving difficult to use…

  • Mad dogs in the woods

        Setting off just after nine in the morning on the return journey, completing the circle, begun the previous day, dry to start with and only in the closing miles the rain, that driving fine rain of Dartmoor, accompanied us down from the high moor towards Tavistock and then the last couple of miles…

  • Owl Suit

    Owl Suit

    Zip. Click. Ready. Snug in the feather down you rise into the night sky, Owl eyes searching the foggy banks below. Somewhere out there Mr Fox is sleeping, Somewhere out there, Sleeping off the rich feast which he came across last Sunday, Hunger put off for a time: Travels in a Middle land Wolves, Dreams, Transformations…

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.