A woman once said to Charlotte I do not need a diary, it’s all in here, tapping her head. This so impressed Charlotte, thereafter, she felt no need to record. Indeed her memory is well exercised, practiced and acute. We talked of origination stories, how we first met each other. With Gemma she remembers her… Continue reading Charlotte and memory
Category: News
Adrian Ramsay, MP
VOTE GREEN posters, bill boards, peppered Halesworth veins and artuaries. Door knocking, exploring streets I'd never known, finding friends homes, people in stress, champagne socialists. As the day grew closer, more wanted to be involved. Worked with Sarah on polling day, at the Riffle Hall, met Oliver and still have his pen. Lowestoft Count, with… Continue reading Adrian Ramsay, MP
Sam
Just Stop Oil protesters who disrupted rugby final cleared of criminal damage Samuel Johnson, 41, and Patrick Hart, 38, will face a separate charge of aggravated trespass at a later date. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/just-stop-oil-protesters-premiership-rugby-final-twickenham-cleared-criminal-damage-b1166690.html https://juststopoil.org/2024/03/21/just-stop-oil-essex-tunnellers-found-guilty-at-basildon-crown-court/
Election 2024 and AI
This year’s general election will likely be the first where we see the emerging impact AI will have on our politics. Democracy can only function if it is grounded in honest, good-faith debate and voters can trust what they see and hear from our politicians. AI is scary in this case, because it is camouflaged… Continue reading Election 2024 and AI
Jan Pedley
Came to see me, after many years. I’d heard she’d gone through wars with body - a bleed on the brain. It hadn’t diminished her recollection of our past (I’d forgotten she knew and had stayed with Alou in Edinburgh) or her character. I am angry, she said, with the limits of my body. Balance,… Continue reading Jan Pedley
Fight not over territory but imaginary stories
Yuval Noah Harari: humans don't fight over territory or food, they fight over imaginary stories in their minds
Yuka
... She is known in the UN as a Lifer, having joined in 1998.
Haiku with Tammy
Such a long time since I turned mind to writing creatively. Could not resist this invitation from Tammy. She deconstructed Haiku. We didn't have to do the form: Every first line of Haiku has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5 syllables. This was an English invention - it… Continue reading Haiku with Tammy
Thrandeston Oak and anarchy
An unexpected gift of a huge oak to behold, as B and I meandered around his village of Thrandeston, after rain, early evening. It was huge with three branches as big as trunks soaring up. A massive wound on one side, so it must have lost a 4th branch at some time (Alice thinks during… Continue reading Thrandeston Oak and anarchy
I dream of places I will never go again
I dream of places I will never go again. I miss it all, the able-bodied freedom of my former life. Hanif Kureishi - Dispatches From My Hospital Bed
