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Category: LA Communita

  • To My Friend in Rome

    The Dioskouroi. Was it those dangerous twins Who had come knocking at the door to warn you To leave the building At once, immediately Before an earthquake struck?   It was also an earthquake, you see, During the middle of that night while We enjoyed the gifts Of our wealthy host, Which had made us…

  • Letter from Rome

      The semester draws towards an end and we are right in the middle of exams. I’m picturing these as little yappy dogs demanding my attention. ‘All right, all right, I’ll do a bit more study . . . later . . . tomorrow . . . just keep quiet would you.’   After weeks…

  • Letter From Rome

          The essay that’s due tomorrow is finished except for a final brief read through before printing it out. I keep telling myself that a better plan would be to finish the first draft a week before the deadline so at least there’s a week for reflection and changes, but no, there are…

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.