Check your inner monitor for ambivalence!

I get some news!The first thing IDo, without thoughtApparentlyIs carelesslyInterpret it. News that you receive oft takes a moment to interpret. Is it good? is it bad? Or is it somewhere in between. Perhaps the news contains a mixture of good, bad, or nuanced degrees between positive and negative interpretation as well as a mixture … More Check your inner monitor for ambivalence!

I have always avoided this WordPress prompt question because the word ‘sport’ feels a source of great discomfort to me. Why might that be so?

I have always avoided this WordPress prompt question because the word ‘sport’ feels a source of great discomfort to me. Why might that be so? The occasion of ‘sport’, even a too frequent use of the word, does cause me discomfort and I have no explanation of this beyond that I felt as a young … More I have always avoided this WordPress prompt question because the word ‘sport’ feels a source of great discomfort to me. Why might that be so?

Exhibiting the subject of ‘the local’ locally. What is local art? What do its images capture? A subject or a viewer?

Geoff and I are confined these days following Geoff’s serious illness, and we don’t  think we can visit the great art exhibitions, theatre, or even cinema in the cities we would take pains to go to: Edinburgh, London,  Manchester,  Liverpool, or even the nearest of the great cities, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Macbeth knowing that his agents have … More Exhibiting the subject of ‘the local’ locally. What is local art? What do its images capture? A subject or a viewer?

‘Krapp’s  Last Podcast’, with apologies to Samuel Beckett.

What podcasts are you listening to? I desperately want to see this production A late evening in the future.THUS THE STAGE DIRECTION READS.To show you that the podcast to which IListen is probably that I’m making,Is probably that I hear in my playIn that future, where the true present lies. Krapp listens hard in the … More ‘Krapp’s  Last Podcast’, with apologies to Samuel Beckett.

I need a plan for doing daily blogs. The task gets harder as my capacity for invention diminishes.

I need a plan for doing daily blogs. The task gets harder as my capacity for invention diminishes. Verses about how the daily blogs started ‘A blog a day Keeps blues away’. At first it was a need To find in chaff a seed Through diversion of that rumination Into futures planned by my creation. … More I need a plan for doing daily blogs. The task gets harder as my capacity for invention diminishes.