excerpt from my journal: ———————”I think there’s really something magical about folk music. I’m sitting in Connemara in a pub and there’s these 3 guys just chillin’…… Read more “^folk, (o)=e”
Category: personal^blurbs
Hilariously Flippant Lecture Quotes !!!
Sometimes looking back at your class notes from University is really enlightening… other times… it goes like this: “don’t blame Catherine, Henry…we’ll get you some fertility counselling”…… Read more “Hilariously Flippant Lecture Quotes !!!”
blog setup
Blog setup is a real beast. I am having a stab, yet again, at making this thing navigable, but my brain is out to lunch and there's… Read more "blog setup"
Grey
https://youtu.be/808nTiXLam8 I’m still in this place. Sometimes it seems I never leave. * Gallery, 2014 Imagine, if you will a gallery piece installed, a row of plants at… Read more "Grey"
The Ever-Processing Machine
I can’t find my incense. I don’t want to write. I desperately want nothing more than to write. For ever. So then, perhaps I’m just a stymied…… Read more “The Ever-Processing Machine”
The Danger of a Single Story
This is fanTAStic! Filmed July 2009 at TEDGlobal 2009 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
‘soul not found’
so much laughter…
Musingly, Further
Further Always )i’ve a notion tonight that there’s a further way to live than i do, and that it is far from impossible to live. i’ve always…… Read more “Musingly, Further”
Memo # 12
I have finally instituted a writing day for myself. Non-interpretive, uninterrupted. Awesome. There is a rose on my desk from Valentine’s Day, I’ve eaten a delicious maple…… Read more “Memo # 12”
Memo # 8 ~ Deep River (Shusako Endo)
“…And death itself began working backwards…” A tree grows up into the light, oxygen-laden air from out of the dark, decaying remains of its parent. Forest fires…… Read more “Memo # 8 ~ Deep River (Shusako Endo)”
Memo #5
Memo #5 ~ Simone Weil and Stringfellow The nature of Love is, enigmatically, found in perpetual Act, defined in the solitude granted within the oneness of intimacy,…… Read more “Memo #5”
Thoughts on Paul Farmer and A Vine of Neighbors…
Love your neighbor as yourself, the Scriptures say. John talked about it in lecture the other day. The good Samaritan, like Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains,…… Read more “Thoughts on Paul Farmer and A Vine of Neighbors…”
Memo #3 ~
Memo # 3 ~ Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran “What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire. We do no…… Read more “Memo #3 ~”
Marx & Foucault Meditation
I was going to write a piece I could be proud of this week. Something perhaps with a twinge of the intellectual child hiding out in my…… Read more “Marx & Foucault Meditation”
From For the Light
Solstice There is little snow on the ground when you begin your morning walk on this the shortest day of the year. This is the season of…… Read more “From For the Light”
Beauty
It’s pouring in clear sheets outside in the dark, and the trees’ branches are like many arms in a wild dance with the wind… The sound of…… Read more “Beauty”
an abandoned subversion
… watching Fellowship of the Ring — thinking that we desperately need to keep alive certain fictions in our lives. The ones which invigorate our hearts to…… Read more “an abandoned subversion”
The Night House. . .
Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a sickle through the tall grass— the grass of civics,…… Read more “The Night House. . .”
Kate Gough 