How are you feeling right now? My real problem with this prompt is how to hone in on what the questioner might mean by the phrase ‘right now’. That’s because I cannot determine enough that’s static or detachable enough from the motion of time in all of its manifestations to fix upon a ‘now’ on … More Right now?
What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? If I cannot read, and that happens sometimes, I cannot easily reintegrate imbalances in my mental health. Modern versions of cognitive-behaviouralism stress a kind of mindfulness, which is, in my view, more truly named mindlessness, and praise being in the moment and possibly … More The regulation of the relationship of emotion, thought, sensation and action through reading.
As a former lifelong member of the Labour Party, I do support Jamie Driscoll’s aim to challenge the current leadership of the party that has served him and us so ill. However I do not think that is a sound basis for standing down a Green candidate. Indeed, it feels all the more important to … More My view on The Green Party being asked to stand down a Mayoral candidate in North East England in favour of Jamie Driscoll
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? In order to answer this I feel I ought to exclude any searching I do for my blogs, for I do this merely to source links. I used to prefer the term hyperlinks that we once used instead of just … More Excluding the blogs …
A writer at Work: A quick look at Derek Owusu’s novel in preparation possibly entitled Kweku. Submitted with trepidation (but with no request for answer) to @DerekVsOwusu In a recent diary piece on a stay at the Edinburgh Festival, I included the following, about which I am ashamed enough to come clean, for I have … More A writer at Work: A quick look at Derek Owusu’s novel in preparation possibly entitled Kweku. Submitted with trepidation (but with no request for answer) to @DerekVsOwusu
What TV shows did you watch as a kid? When Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens the jobs of actors, special effect stunts persons and extras in TV and film, because of the realism achievable by simulated scenes and unlikely animated characters, I wonder why a string-puppet, with his strings obvious, and his nature as an inanimate … More Why, oh why did we love Muffin the Mule?
‘Jamie said: Rivers do not sleep, not the River Brú anyways …. And did you know that Brú means crushing? Jamie said, … My teacher said that is what it means and that it is good because rivers are important, but also bad, because if it is strong, …, it might crush fish and rocks … More BOOKER: This blog is about Elaine Feeney’s (2023) ‘How To Build A Boat’.
Sometimes we cannot, and maybe should not, visit the dark places into which our friends have trodden, and hence the idea of walking a mile in your shoes is exactly the wrong definition of empathy. I do not know the shape of your pain nor the wide extent of its blank landscapes, Amie, and your … More Imagining my friend Amie on the request of her dear mother.
What’s your favorite time of day? If twilight were a person, they would fade From you only to become a dusk That merely exchanged their doubleness, made Soft and loving by its own scent – the musk That made me feel a love, though enacted, Had something true in it. In some ideal World, we … More Twilight piece
Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Three {Thursday, Friday and Conclusion on my week}) This is Part Three (including Thursday and Friday and a summary to follow) There is Part One of a Festival Diary (Saturday to Tuesday inclusive) on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/23/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one/ Part One (Appendix FOR Wednesday) is on https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/24/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-one-appendix-a-wednesday/Part Two is at: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2023/08/27/diary-of-a-stay-in-edinburgh-part-two-howsons-art-dr-bendor-grosvenor-britains-best-known-figure-in-the-discipline-known-as-art-connoisseurship-says-of-howson-what-an/ Of course … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Three {Thursday, Friday and Conclusion on my week})
Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Two [Howson’s art]). Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Britain’s best-known figure in the discipline known as art connoisseurship, is quoted in the Edinburgh City Art Gallery webpage on their Peter Howson retrospective, saying of Howson: ‘What an artist. They’ll be talking about him in a hundred years’ time.’[1] Is that … More Diary of a stay in Edinburgh (Part Two [Howson’s art]). Dr Bendor Grosvenor, Britain’s best-known figure in the discipline known as art connoisseurship says of Howson: ‘What an artist. They’ll be talking about him in a hundred years’ time.’ Is that a good assessment?
How would you design the city of the future? Augustine conceived a city of God Whose main pleasure was to view the torment Of the damned in Hell. Most cities since Replicate that idea, the many By the privileged few, are now downtrod In the city itself, long hours are spent Draining life out of … More The City of God
