Month: March 2012

Listen: Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks

Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for… Continue Reading “Listen: Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks”

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Bookshed: What’s Wrong with my Vegetable Garden?

What’s Wrong with my Vegetable Garden? David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth 2011 Ever find yourself looking at a greyish leaf or a pattern of insect damage on a plant and asking yourself what’s going wrong? In my backyard I invariably find myself fighting the… Continue Reading “Bookshed: What’s Wrong with my Vegetable Garden?”

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The system by which I clear out my psychic space.

It’s crazymaking – how much I want to cram everything in. Read every book, magazine, journal I come across – listen to music across genres and times – play music even, write. Make photographs and clothes. It feels like a sickness at times, and… Continue Reading “The system by which I clear out my psychic space.”

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Fragments.

I have been quite busy in the last couple of weeks, the happenings of which have encroached into my brainspace in a way that has made it difficult to separate and write anything of length. Not reading reflections nor secret poems, not essay starts… Continue Reading “Fragments.”

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Pesky Science!

No time for a decent post today because I’ve got an all-day union meeting to attend, with a social afterward and then dinner – so I leave you with this amusing short from Rick Mercer. Grains of truth? Oh yes. You have no idea.

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