The surprise of Trump - October/November 2016 Jill Lepore The election of 2016 will not be remembered for anything beautiful. Injury, fear, blame, hatred. An election gone wrong. Madison. Formation of Republicans and Federalists. We are all republicans we are all federalists 1964 parties began to diverge, public interest over party interest weakening. Income inequality… Continue reading The Surprise Rise of Trump Nov 2016
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Reith Lectures 2016 KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH – Mistaken Identities
(Reith Lectures, inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general. Since 2002, presented by Sue Lawley) Kwame Anthony Appiah - mother from Cotswold village, father from Guana, (Guess who’s coming to Dinner), born UK lives New… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2016 KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH – Mistaken Identities
Permission from Brothers
Dear Frank and John How are you both and all? I know we said we’d touch base again in September, and here we are in October/November. What prompts me to write now is about a specific event. Bob was widely known and admired here in Suffolk. His friends, and the Cut Arts Centre, would like… Continue reading Permission from Brothers
Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2016
Last year I walked into the Aldeburgh cinema office on Friday morning and got tickets for all. This year they had even abandoned a waiting list.‘Too many big names’ was one explanation given. Rupert and I (another difference between this year and last) arrived with tickets for 3 out of 12 events, an inevitable… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2016
Maidens October 2016
Cooking up Aga roasted butternut squash, upside down apple cake (thanks Imogen), bullises and other gifts from the hedgerow like late blackberries, walking by and enjoying the fall of abundant wild pears, apples, crabs, golden, yellow, and red. Clive admiring the turn of his maples. And Tinks. As I found myself saying to Barry's other half,… Continue reading Maidens October 2016
Mustang (Cut cinema)
After two of us had exchanged gratitude for cinema at the Cut (like a Plat de Jour, we are given an eclectic and good range of films we'd not know of or opt to see, and the delicious tapas food) we saw one such film. Mustang, set in the countryside of Turkey, relays the story… Continue reading Mustang (Cut cinema)
Socratic Dialogue at Magnolia House
Halesworth, September 6, 2016. At Magnolia House, courtisy of Tamsin and Micahel. Thank you Suzie for this. I am once agin all the more in awe of Tamzin and Michael, precious people who I do not dance with enough. Such concentrated listening, held so carefully and compassionately, by the facilitator, by this group of 12, in a… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue at Magnolia House
Bob Dylan
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html Oh Bob, Bob Edwards, where are you now? Your absence marked, missed, regretted. you pointed to all this, we sang Dylan all one weekend, Clarendon Road. I want to hug you for it, and at the same time, want more of you. I listen to Patty Smith singing And so i heard I saw ten… Continue reading Bob Dylan
Belcea Quartet, Snape Prom
Unexpected invitation to Snape to hear the Belcea Quartet play Schubert and Shostakovich. Unbelivably the first piece composed by Schubert aged 16, the 2nd Death and the Maiden when 28. He died at 30. The drama came from Shostakovich. Makes me want to listen to the Leningrad symphony. Oh Bob where are you. Moon almost full… Continue reading Belcea Quartet, Snape Prom
Road trip North with Louise and then Barry (April 2016)
It was a spontaneous decision begun from a remnant of Bob. ‘Go on a road trip with Louise’ he’d said ‘You’re both unusual and glorious people. You’d get on’ . I hear his words, now that he is gone. We’d collided together, Louise and I, after Toby died a few days after Bob, and begun… Continue reading Road trip North with Louise and then Barry (April 2016)
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