It is simply true that life is big and we are small and we have to find ways of managing that discrepancy and the resulting tension. Excuse me, can I help you? Are you lost? Of course he might be mad, I thought, perhaps too late, as I attempt to ascertain the degree to which…
I don’t mean bloody mindedness, rather the rhythms of attention; where and how it moves. Writing in a cold garden in Rome a couple of weeks ago, I discover that I described something of this movement: Lemon Tree If this goes on If I let this go on If I don’t break the spell Or…
Arriving at Fiumicino, arriving in Rome, all the practical details of the journey had so far worked smoothly. The next stage was meeting whoever it was who was going to drive me into the city. They, the waiting collectors, scan the arriving bodies; we, the arriving bodies, scan the faces and the cards held up…
Categories (2024) are:
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.