Tag: life

Obviously, for me, most of screen time is taken up by WordPress, and sister app Jetpack (on my mobile): ‘feeling bad’ is often its subject because it is about using my time for registering or reflecting, consolidating, and furthering personal learning.

July 20, 2026

As always, the title is the only way the answer to this prompt will get expressed. The rest becomes a test case and example of what that title’ means in practice. The aim is to extend my learning to state how I prepare to use time in that process – by planned theatre or arts … More Obviously, for me, most of screen time is taken up by WordPress, and sister app Jetpack (on my mobile): ‘feeling bad’ is often its subject because it is about using my time for registering or reflecting, consolidating, and furthering personal learning.

The ease of modern ‘travel’ can hardly be inspired. Only when ‘travel’ equates to ‘travail’ (hard labour and unforeseen difficulty) does it require that input of strong breath from without.

July 19, 2026

For some travel will always be made to include hard work and uncertainties If you test an AI searcher like Co-Pilot on the origins of the word ‘travel’ these days, you get something like this (what I got today): The validity of some of those sources used by the AI tool can be queried but … More The ease of modern ‘travel’ can hardly be inspired. Only when ‘travel’ equates to ‘travail’ (hard labour and unforeseen difficulty) does it require that input of strong breath from without.

A habit, implies that splendid queer aesthetic philosopher, Walter Pater, must, by its very nature, sully the claim that it has improved your life. If so, could it be because a habit like a cloak enfolds and hides the body of healthy action, and lets it corrupt.

July 11, 2026

A habit, implies that splendid queer aesthetic philosopher, Walter Pater, must, by its very nature, sully the claim that it has improved your life. If so, could it be because a habit like a cloak enfolds and hides the body of healthy action, and lets it corrupt. A habit, implies that splendid queer philosopher, Walter … More A habit, implies that splendid queer aesthetic philosopher, Walter Pater, must, by its very nature, sully the claim that it has improved your life. If so, could it be because a habit like a cloak enfolds and hides the body of healthy action, and lets it corrupt.

‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness.

June 7, 2026

‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness. The website Idiom Origins has a brilliant page on the sentence I use in my title, ‘build it and they will come‘: discussing both its original source, … More ‘Build it and they will come’: But, since change is the only constant in our lives, never demand ‘loyalty’ from anyone in any context, just honesty and openness.

‘You’re in Denial!’… ‘I’m not!’ … ‘Now you’re denying you’re in Denial!’ With apologies to ‘The Golden Girls’ from which this exchange comes, let’s think about the struggle involved in learning always to ‘know’ things one ought to know.

April 11, 2026

You’re in Denial!’… ‘I’m not!’ … ‘Now you’re denying you’re in Denial!’ With apologies to ‘The Golden Girls‘ from which this exchange comes, let’s think about the struggle involved in learning always to ‘know’; things one ought to know. And make the decision I did: ‘Do not always trust denials, but do not always disbelieve … More ‘You’re in Denial!’… ‘I’m not!’ … ‘Now you’re denying you’re in Denial!’ With apologies to ‘The Golden Girls’ from which this exchange comes, let’s think about the struggle involved in learning always to ‘know’ things one ought to know.

The institutionalisation of social-distancing! Does it make a difference to the kind, quality or measurement of social distance?

April 1, 2026

The two terms in my title are near enough in appearance. However Wikipedia defines and discusses them separately. Social distancing is the name given to a public health measure, called for by government or other authority to prevent the spread of air-borne communicable diseases, practiced widely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Social distance is a descriptive … More The institutionalisation of social-distancing! Does it make a difference to the kind, quality or measurement of social distance?

The threat of involuntary laughter – a release of tension or a weapon.

March 23, 2026

The threat of involuntary laughter – a release of tension or a weapon. Asked to define the issue in which a person laughs AT another person, or type of person, my AI Co-Pilot comes up with two categories, one a symptom of mental disturbance (katagelasticism) , the other a supposedly common emotional strategy for managing … More The threat of involuntary laughter – a release of tension or a weapon.

I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: ‘Threads of Life’ and Yin Xiuzhen: ‘Heart to Heart’ at the Hayward Gallery.

March 7, 2026

I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life and Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart at the Hayward Gallery seen on the morning of the 5th March 2026. This is a prompt question response and a reflection on the dual exhibition currently … More I learned last what I ought to have learned first: that things connect most when they separate. Transit, Transition & Transfusion: Chiharu Shiota: ‘Threads of Life’ and Yin Xiuzhen: ‘Heart to Heart’ at the Hayward Gallery.

‘In it to win it’: How did the verb ‘to win’ take on the expression of  magical thinking: ‘The sense of “exert effort” in early Middle English faded into “earn (things of value) through effort”‘

January 28, 2026

I queue in a local One-Stop every Saturday because it is the only place I can use my Saturday only pre-paid collection card for The Guardian. Shops like this have garish counters now, festooned with various kinds of prize lottery tickets, each numbered and behind it an assistant who acts to sell these and pay … More ‘In it to win it’: How did the verb ‘to win’ take on the expression of  magical thinking: ‘The sense of “exert effort” in early Middle English faded into “earn (things of value) through effort”‘

You mostly remember the road trip you didn’t take only because the ‘other one’ is an illusion, ‘knowing how way leads on to way!’

January 8, 2026

You mostly remember the road trip you didn’t take only because the ‘other one’ is an illusion, ‘knowing how way leads on to way!’ First, let’s read the poem by Robert Frost once again! It is a well-trod road trip – by us and so many more. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry … More You mostly remember the road trip you didn’t take only because the ‘other one’ is an illusion, ‘knowing how way leads on to way!’

How do you do? How did you do? How do you do that differently?

December 29, 2025

There is a world of difference in many usages of the verb, ‘to do’, that all live depend on cultural assumptions. It is rapidly becoming archaic to use the term ‘How do you do?’, roughly meaning meaning ‘how are you?’, but possibly extrapolated to ‘in the doing that constitutes your life, how do you assess … More How do you do? How did you do? How do you do that differently?