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Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
I almost didn't go. The garden pulled, so much to do, this great doingness, spring action, drive, (reminding me of Norway with its limitation of spring summer). But I did, and as soon as I walked into the gallery barn, I breathed out, in that way I have done before here. for so may reasons.… Continue reading Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
Conrad
In later teenage, I considered that the ideal life would be one without many wants or base ambitions, based on a minimum of economic striving, and given to thought and creative expression – probably framed in some degree of solitude. Thoreau and Herman Hesse were whispering in my lug-hole… Then I got distracted by politics,… Continue reading Conrad
The Post
Stratford Picturehouse, with Barry. Unusually we are on time. I wondered what happened to the whistle blowers after the film ended. Daniel Ellsberg, the main source, worked on a top-secret report ordered by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara entitled U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-1968 - pre Nixons involvement in Vietham. Better known as "The Pentagon Papers". Ellsberg called… Continue reading The Post
Woodland gathering
Science Cafe: Sound and Vision Oct 2017
Midnight’s Children
One am, a film of Midnight's Children on BBC Iplayer is just finishing. Coming across it randomly i had 1 day to view it. Stayed up. Looked up Ravi on the internet and found him: http://raviagarwal.com/bio.php: 'Ravi is also the founder of the Indian environmental NGO Toxics Link which has pioneered work on waste and chemicals'. Another… Continue reading Midnight’s Children
Comings and Goings
The Air bnb guests - Louis and his brother and girlfriend - left me two gifts. The first tangible, was a book Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia by Patrick Cockburn, which had come knocking on my door before but I had not taken it up. We’d exchanged sadly similar stories of dreadful experiences in mental health… Continue reading Comings and Goings
Three nuns and a head girl
I was about to drink my free pint of Orange Wheat (Greenjack) after my Folk East bar shift, when I noticed a foreign number come up on the phone. I had to put the pint down when she said ‘This is Capps, Veronica Capps.’ She was staying with Tre and Gabriel the keepers of Magdalene… Continue reading Three nuns and a head girl
Blackbury and Apple
This slow unpacking involves coming across frequent surprises, jolts, back into the Bob. Today was 'Poplar Farm Blackberry and Apple, 2002' One of our periods of estrangement, a geography of a Suffolk long house Linstead, with Annabelle. I remember his pleasure in making jam, and gifting it, with all that time that he had on… Continue reading Blackbury and Apple
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