Does History Matter?
cindyphillips What are you curious about? “Why does history matter? A better man might be able to answer with far more questions than answers. Whenever the importance of history is discussed,…
2024
EFFUSIVELY AFFLUENT FROM FRIENDSHIPS
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin…
CAN WE UNRAVEL THE BAMBOOZLE?
We’ve got ourselves a new cabinet, a brand new South African government; anything could happen. It’s all subjunctive, it’s all ‘what if this happens’, or ‘why didn’t they…’, that’s what…
BLOOMING MARVELOUS
As Quentin Crisp said, “Flowers are words even a baby can understand.” And so, abit of happy news amidst the squalid stream of bilge this afternoon. According to the Daily…
MUSIC TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS BY?
It’s the anniversary of the death of Mahler. I’ve been ferreting out bits about his miserable messy life this week, because of Gropius, but I mustn’t digress to architecture here.…
Friday Book Review. DOG HOTEL
(Children’s Fiction) The other day I visited a real-life Dog Hotel built alongside the beautifully hidden ancient ruins of a Settler farmhouse in my village. I often stop there in…
What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? My earrings. They’re fat silver hearts that dangle from my sagging lobes. They’re too big for my life now, but I wear them.…
The absence of dread.
What does freedom mean to you?
DON’T FEED THE ALGI
Categories: Stream of consciousness about all sorts of shit. (This is not a poem.) Sometimes it’s all a person can do to just go with the flow, but when –…
A PRESCRIPTION FOR MESHUGGE MEDICINE
It’s just as well we can’t foretell the future, because if anyone had told me twenty years ago that I would be given strict medical orders to blog every day…