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Category: LA Communita

  • Letter from Rome

    What is it that makes Rome Rome? History? The light? The piazzas? The churches? The people who live here? The tourists? Of course, all of these play their part in creating the fabric that is Rome. But when I was checking some facts in Georgina Masson’s The Companion Guide to Rome, published in 1965, my…

  • Ensiao na Morte [1]

    Garbatella [2]. Bereavement.  And what is the language using us for [3]. For something, A letter of condolence, which of course I have never sent you, No, I don't think so, But definitely for something, I was writing after a visit to Rome, four days in which we had walked through parts of the centre…

  • There was something I wanted to find

      My indecisiveness; my, this café or that, was cut short by a heavy downpour, typical of rain in Rome. There had been plenty of warning, the clouds gathering, packing ever tighter into this late Sunday afternoon in December; a darkening presence as I pressed on down the straight and cobbled canyon of the Via…

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.