I was reading something by Tom Cox, whose writing makes me feel like there is a point to things and began thinking. That is to say, started to organize and categorize all the ideas and thoughts that one wakes up with. The feelings and scenes and characters that sink away, the crash landing from dreams…… Continue reading Feed the Birds
Category: fighting back
Plastic Rosary
Another holiday. It’s been a long time since the last blog post. Is that even what they are called anymore? Time seems to have changed again since the new year. New Year! A few years ago, I mean weeks, we celebrated. Then the wheel turned, and we were thrown into the everyday. January lasted for…… Continue reading Plastic Rosary
Help Hazel
Good morning from a small town by the ocean. Hazel update – she is still fighting hard. I’m thinking about our walks by the ocean, her happy smile, and how much she loves her little family.Thank you to everyone who has donated. It means so much. Please click here to help and read about her.…… Continue reading Help Hazel
Look After Each Other
Today, the feast of St. Stephen. Boxing Day. In the USA, another day. It’s still quieter though – that’s something. Today I had a moment where I realized a deep feeling of sadness and kindness towards America – the one I glimpsed in moments, the faces who stared back at me. Perhaps it is the…… Continue reading Look After Each Other
Mint
Some thoughts after being bludgeoned with sales and offers and new and must have and every party should and everyone ought to and nursing bruises that only the internet can inflict. It occurs to me why out-of-control capitalism (is there another kind?) is destroying the earth. It occurred to me just this morning. This morning,…… Continue reading Mint
Well, well, well
Well. A deep subject. Don’t worry. It’s an inside joke. I must be feeling better, because I feel compelled to write something about the experience. I doubt it will have any linear clarity, but linear movement, like constant growth, is a post-capitalist economist trick of the light to make everyone feel that if they aren’t…… Continue reading Well, well, well
Heroes in the Bin
Another Sunday. And while reading an elegantly written review by Olivia Laing of Wifedom in The Guardian – another hero hit the bricks. One tends to believe that those devoted to social justice and unveiling the manipulations of society would be removed from treating others, particularly their women partners, badly, though why I would believe…… Continue reading Heroes in the Bin
Where have all the flowers gone…
I’ve been thinking about how the discussion on climate change reveals certain trends. There is the falsely reassuring market in carbon, now collapsing. Pictures of fires and smoke and holiday makers evacuating are juxtaposed with talk of El Nino cycles. Currents in the ocean may stop. The ocean water in Florida is warmer than your…… Continue reading Where have all the flowers gone…
Humanizing the demonic
Which page to start on? You don’t have those issues with a computer. Should we be thinking about tactile objects more? Is there a danger living too much in a virtual or as they say in food, super processed, world? So many smells, tastes, and now thoughts and images are artificial, that is to say,…… Continue reading Humanizing the demonic
Healing Reality
Healing Reality Nowhere in Two Places. Well, it’s out in paperback. I am working on new material. I do hear a voice in my head saying work harder. But then again I see bands cashing in on the 50th anniversary of this or that, releasing a box set of singles, with photographs, blah etc. blah.…… Continue reading Healing Reality
