Did our dog Daisy roll over leavesThat toned through every shadeOf ochre and walked us throughAutumn today? Or was it not so? For Autumn was a tunnel into wonderThat open at each bank to azureWhich by remnant greens was tinted;Of summer growth, still proudOf clinging on when time’s pastOr passing quick, as soon it does. … More Rolling through the colour tones to the end.
There is something of the apocalyptic in the image above of Trump supporters wrapped in the flag outside the Trump residendence in Florida, as if the official worship of power and the rule by the idiom of ‘might is right’ had been established, or as Gladstone said of Bourbon rule in The Two Sicilies, ‘ … More Shoulder to shoulder with the shared values of a ruling group who believe might is right. The endgame begins with a Trump of Doom.
Bridging Gaps in Personal Learning No. 2: This blog is yet again an attempt to understand my own process of learning. It is based on thinking about the debt of influence of Francis Bacon to his painting hero, Vincent Van Gogh, as a portraitist. I start with the configuration of that debt by Rosie Broadley … More Bridging Gaps in Personal Learning No. 2 : This blog is based on thinking about the debt of influence of Francis Bacon to his painting hero, Vincent Van Gogh, as a portraitist.
Providing Care That is Right the First Time That seems a laudable aim wereIt not a label tearing from the wallthat once told people how far theyshould distance themselves from each other.The other in this case is a promisealso peeling at its edges that:We are committed to Safe Compassionate joined-up care. And then just outside … More THE ENDLESS PASSAGE BETWEEN MODULES to someone’s fate. IS MODULARISATION REALLY COMMODIFICATION?
Yesterday good friends, Rob, Linda and their daughter, Eleanor, visited my husband in hospital and cheered him up with stories and banter and useful information. They brought a card in the right spirit, and I have no doubt that made the queen lurking in my husband assert herself. It was a clever card with even … More On the virtue of friends who don’t enter in too far and love with laughter.
Bridging Gaps in Personal Learning: This blog is an attempt to understand my own process of learning. It is based on a highly situated and contextualised reading of Émile Zola’s The Sin of Abbé Mouret (La faute de l’abbé Mouret) translated by Valerie Minogue (Oxford World Classics ed.) Oxford, Oxford University Press, an edition recommended … More Bridging Gaps in Personal Learning: This blog is an attempt to understand my own process of learning. It is based on a highly situated reading of Émile Zola’s ‘The Sin of Abbé Mouret’, translated by Valerie Minogue
Do we guess when Detective St. John Strafford’s consciousness notices that there ‘was something odd about him today’ with regard a long standing character in the Quirke stories by Benjamin Black and the Quirke and Strafford stories of John Banville, Chief Inspector John Hackett, that Hackett is about to depart his place in the series … More This blog ponders on the latest John Banville crime novel: John Banville (2024) ‘The Drowned’ London, Faber.
The Next blogs – the plan: I intend to keep up the blogs, lest the pin of my mental world is withdrawn in the present crisis in my husband’s health. For Geoff has become increasingly breathless over a week or so – the GP surgery thinking that at 83 all that was required was consultation … More In lieu of a blog in a time of confusion: The Next blogs – the plan.
In the second part of my blog on my birthday visit to London, I predicted what I might write about when I wrote a second blog on it [the first is at this link] based on seeing the work ‘in the flesh’. Saying it was ‘almost certainly the strongest art exhibition I have ever seen’ … More ‘On reflection the use of impasto is as good a place as any to start with Van Gogh’. Random thoughts about the current National Gallery exhibition.
Who would have thought that ‘screen time’ is a phrase that could be discussed on Wikipedia but it is!. That discussion focuses on the bad effects on the developmental physical and mental health of children but adults are considered as in this extract, which makes the point that screen time for adults is divided between … More ‘Screen time’. Another red herring of an issue in a world where time is seen as a commodity for consumption.
I had intended not to write up actually seeing Danez Smith, given that I have written up my response to his written poems (at least that is what is I say at the linked blog here), which I love. You can read these responses at the links: on the poem Sioux Falls, and on the … More On seeing Danez Smith
I looked at the play Waiting for Godot in an earlier blog (available at this link). I often do this, preparing myself by looking at my expectations of a production based on knowledge of its text and the prognostications of such critical review material of the actual production that I have seen. It amuses me … More ‘[The moon rises at back, mounts in the sky, stands still, shedding a pale light on the scene.]’ In the Theatre Royal Haymarket production of ‘Waiting for Godot’, is the unlabelled moonlight compensation enough for an absenting a visible moon?
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