word collecting

today: embrace absent

tired

Dear Joannusmolen I bought your Mais Flips in my local health food shop in the UK recently, I have seen them for a few months but was reluctant to purchase them because of the packaging, please, please change it, the face of the beautiful black woman smiling is ruined by an inexplicable covering of salt (?) on her face, it is unnecessary and degrading, surely you could have the same portrait without the covering... the contents of the packet was interesting and I would be happy to buy Mais Flips again but only if the image changes.from someone who rarely sees herself positively represented and is tired of it, thank you in advance, 

harm

you rarely see us crying about the pain racists cause, for some very strange reason we are expected to be strong in the face of such intense hatred, racism harms our souls

word collecting

found on various scraps of paper:meeting fuss cutout elliptical absorbing calling tributary momentum chorus jackpot vocabulary fundamental disavowal alliance syncopation lifetime elide fool blemish triage ambushed abysmal diligent incantation interpellate hinge impersonate parentheses

word collecting

end of July: edition affiliation inertia fortitude restored resolve kind

a day's worth of rain

word collecting

this evening: insubordination disobedience  

human stuff

'psychologically, women are forced to look at the world through men's eyes, I wanted to put the other point of view: what it felt like to be a woman expressing yourself, being free, doing your human stuff in what is a pretty patriarchal society' Jane Campion

Claudia Rankine: How Art Teaches a Poet to See

word collecting

today, yesterday and the day before: upkeep soliloquy enchanting abstemious preside testimony

mindjournals.com

I read about this project by Ollie Aplin recently, really important work, this article is in his blog: Stormzy talks about his depression

letters

http://letterslive.com/about/

Thanks Mark!

"artist Maria Amidu needed a clean layout which reflected her eye on the world and could display her work without distraction. Over a number of months we worked on her gallery of incredible work and utilised the great backend system, Divi Builder, to allow an easy way for her to update the site herself"

how guilt is productive

ladders

OMG so many ladder scenes I keep missing on my train journeys, short of pulling the emergency cord I have to let them whizz by...

word collecting

yesterday: congregation granularthe day before: implausible

'lateralness'

A Little Lateral Thinking fifty years ago, Edward de Bono coined the term "lateral thinking"  

adaptation

The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel, Adaptation'pick a path through the facts to meaning... the hardest thing to do on the page is something that happens suddenly'

Lorna Goodison

Poem of the week: Signals from a the Simple Life by Lorna Goodison

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today: recall