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Tag: Friern Barnet Mental Health Hospital

  • 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…

  • COMING OF AGE: When the Shade Slips

    Schizophrenia: until for a moment the shade slips (or should one say the mask of self), and We stand with no protection staring directly at the sun.In 2012, and today it is not Friern Barnet but Highgate Mental Health Centre – the word Centre being preferred to that of Hospital. Friern Barnet closed and was sold off…

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  • 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
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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.