None of your actions hold sway. Each step a practiced choreography. Something coded in your genes. Orchestrated mechanics keeping time. An Unconscious turning. As if a clockmaker made a watch and walked away. A world indifferent to everything you were, everything you are, everything you thought you’d be...
Today is Rosalind Franklin's birthday, and our memorial anthology Rosalind's Siblings with @atthisarts is coming soon! This project was a delight to edit & I am so glad one of the Franklins reached out to me.
'The Auroras & Blossoms Haiku Anthology: Volume I' has been out for a week now. I still have a big smile on my face, because five of my haiku are featured in it. You've got one more week to purchase a copy ot this e-book for the special introduction price of only $ 1,99 or € 1,99.
Does anyone have a copy of Robert Lowell's poem Since 1939 to hand? I need to check the exact wording of the two lines about the light of an oncoming train. Thanks
There is no frame of reference that is absolute. Nothing is unmoving. Everything exists in transit. Everything is transient. Neither subject, nor object, but verb.
Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare
head.
-- Li Po (tr. Arthur Waley)
Something happens when you feed a thread through a needle. When you sit cross-legged counting breaths. When you learn every lyric to a song. Something happens when you give your awareness to things that happen gradually. To the sure strum of a chord, to good books, to writing, to words. Things that need time to proof. Things that rise and bake. The things that make you wait.
To anyone who's interested in reading a collection of great haiku: 'The Auroras & Blossoms Haiku Anthology: Volume 1', featuring five of my haiku, can be purchased as an e-book for just
$ 1,99 until 1 August.
A daisy chain of numbered boxes marked off in neat, successive rows. The unavailing hope that today will be different. And yet, none of your actions hold sway. Each step a practiced choreography...
"Our ideas about property and theft depend on a set of assumptions about how the world is divided up”, Lewis Hyde says. The way it is hoisted, hung, halved, and drained. Every vital thing removed. The way it is sectioned off and carved apart. Packaged in plastic. Tagged with parallel lines. Machine readable data. A representation of a life put out for sale.
Grateful to see New York Times bestselling #author, Gretchen Rubin recommending my first #book, Signposts to Elsewhere—which was reissued by Hay House #India (publishers of Deepak Chopra & Dr. Wayne W. Dyer).
Re-sharing for the weekend crowd. The official link to our lovely #OpenAccess collection, 'Minoritised Languages and Travel' in the Modern Languages Open journal.
This is a collection of 5 essays + introduction that explore frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of social, cultural and language hierarchies.