tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21945348813289540612024-03-16T11:53:06.781-07:00touches of sense...notes on technology, learning languages and life.sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comBlogger483125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-1809634203307213152022-05-13T06:41:00.006-07:002022-05-13T08:25:18.526-07:00Some way back...<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” Pablo Picasso</i></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-595574cf-7fff-80a1-391b-980fde951b5e"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-AiUIVIWJHxokvu3yKuwNbYLjq3nfuK98uLl9qs_4XRuH1QAR5NmcVXMQM8y0ennjrmECRVU6YKF2knqXBVC3aSs_isoj0HG9sJr4F0Xb9xe8Vv-PoQjqftCO-yHQQjVuMCujvQCDkd4Do1g9l7BFn-o1tfuyGO_NGLUtnrntiL6tWYQ_8NC8aJJ/s320/stanage.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-AiUIVIWJHxokvu3yKuwNbYLjq3nfuK98uLl9qs_4XRuH1QAR5NmcVXMQM8y0ennjrmECRVU6YKF2knqXBVC3aSs_isoj0HG9sJr4F0Xb9xe8Vv-PoQjqftCO-yHQQjVuMCujvQCDkd4Do1g9l7BFn-o1tfuyGO_NGLUtnrntiL6tWYQ_8NC8aJJ/s1600/stanage.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I was 19, I was happy, wasn’t sure where I was going. Not much has changed in 30 years.” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those were the first lines written on this blog, </span><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-boldly-go.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Touches of sense…</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here I am in 2022, starting a new adventure, a web site, to be entitled: </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some way back…</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Simon.Ensor.Art</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have always known that I was an artist.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My father used to ask me to illustrate his sermons. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My mother told the school I painted like Lowry (I didn’t).</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>John Steinbeck.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My art teacher was a great teacher, he would give me excellent marks and then fail to convince me to do some work. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Others told me to concentrate on more serious subjects.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is a drawing I knocked off for homework when I was 16 years old. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRhiBSmiTI7ENVaPXyhz2Da1w2DeefL-B1oXno9C5VOcsvuGlDnQGq4Fcu4xaXiC38-w5FgbT6qK99QJ12z-ComgpI8am9NO73phfDtldfboJMQkpPip6tKNZi0dKxt9wfTqZf3O6Nx8oxVwf9aHqJFKD2iOxwPjxEezuXDowPchV4XUN4BYEuvW/s2048/DA3EFD4C-460A-40A1-A670-C6519DF74AD5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRhiBSmiTI7ENVaPXyhz2Da1w2DeefL-B1oXno9C5VOcsvuGlDnQGq4Fcu4xaXiC38-w5FgbT6qK99QJ12z-ComgpI8am9NO73phfDtldfboJMQkpPip6tKNZi0dKxt9wfTqZf3O6Nx8oxVwf9aHqJFKD2iOxwPjxEezuXDowPchV4XUN4BYEuvW/s320/DA3EFD4C-460A-40A1-A670-C6519DF74AD5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The art teacher’s comments have been nagging me ever since.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am writing now as a 60 year old Anglo-French artist, driven by a single question: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“What happens when I really put my mind to developing a body of visual art?” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some way back… </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a means to document and share responses to that question. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“An artist without faith is like a painter who was born blind.”</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Andrei Tarkovsky</i></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As an artist, I have been working passionately for the past 34 years as an English teacher with thousands of students, exploring the medium and discovering the desire and the means to transform it. I have spent years studying and adapting my actions to the complexity and unpredictability of human interactions and learning. Faith and hard work has enabled this artist to see further…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art has always been a way to lose myself and to find myself elsewhere. </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Along the way, </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have developed my voice as a blogger in Touches of sense…, connected and collaborated as an educator and as an artist with kindred creative spirits from around the world and employed more or less academic genres to communicate and to publish radical educational messages</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 482 blog posts that I have written since 2010 have become progressively more and more concerned with visual art. The last one, </span><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2021/08/touches-of-light-preciously-preserved.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Touches of light, preciously preserved</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> marked some sort of epiphany.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A page escapes to leafy paths[...]Ephemera rendered eternal.Taking a moment to contemplate. Pause, gaze, breathe in, remember. Moving, losing sight, feeling loss.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ever since I was born, I have been acutely aware of the ephemeral nature of life and the infinite value of artistic expression. My father’s work was </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">rhythmed</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by life’s passing seasons and the rituals of baptism, marriage,and death. My mother shared her love for music, poetry, gardening and nature,and an eye for beauty to be found in driftwood, pebbles, and bric-à-brac. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some way back…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Is made up of moments of figurative and abstract meaning making. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I find flow and express emotions by letting myself be moved by the moment, the media, making marks intentionally or serendipitously. I am drawn to gaze at distant horizons and to investigate universes glimpsed through close focus. At times, images emerge organically with no apparent source. Certain motifs are recurrent: nature, landscape, seascapes, mountains, rocks, trees, paths…the objective is always to discover new lands to be able to perceive what lies beyond the self, the subject, the page.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i>"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."</i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i>Marcel Proust</i></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Touches of sense… </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has been a means to map out areas I want to explore and to excavate and to study the reasons why they are important. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each collection, each image has its back story. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some way back</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will build upon these foundations. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Between 2014, and 2018 much of my artistic work was multi-media,collaborative and digital, combining poetry, spoken voice and images in assemblages. I owe much to my friends of #clmooc.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since 2018, starting with </span><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-vine-branches-wildly.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A vine branches wildly…”</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I have concentrated my art practice predominantly on watercolor painting, ink, charcoal and graphite drawing. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The more you learn, the more you </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">realize</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> how little you know and how much you need to learn. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I speak to those who I consider to be master artists, I am comforted when they agree with this quote of George Leonard:</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“We fail to realise that mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to fail, and try again. For as long as he or she lives.”</i></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have stayed true to my path day after day, year after year. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To my surprise it appears that this is its latest twist. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am working now on some way forward.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Simon Ensor</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Artist exploring the ephemeral nature of life via figuration & abstraction, flow & scribble, intention & serendipity.</span></span></p><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Courier New;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>P.S.</b></span></span></div><div>I have no idea whether this will be the last post in Touches of sense...</div><div>It has been quite a while since I felt moved to write here.</div><div>The words just wouldn't come...</div><div><br /></div></span>sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-82659560566429849712021-08-12T06:01:00.001-07:002021-08-12T06:01:15.075-07:00Touches of light, preciously preserved.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3VMZF3vyU5I/YRULMMPTy9I/AAAAAAABdWs/ueuvrat7RFALpbUy2w-b47nfVQXIU5KxQCPcBGAsYHg/s3974/IMG_4218.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3974" data-original-width="2674" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3VMZF3vyU5I/YRULMMPTy9I/AAAAAAABdWs/ueuvrat7RFALpbUy2w-b47nfVQXIU5KxQCPcBGAsYHg/w269-h400/IMG_4218.HEIC" width="269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A page escapes to leafy paths.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6x84uJqR9Y/YRUUg8j1h5I/AAAAAAABdXs/A_Bthx5GDGsxHU_mgraHTr9mIDjeIBfkACPcBGAsYHg/s3814/IMG_4160.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3814" data-original-width="2537" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6x84uJqR9Y/YRUUg8j1h5I/AAAAAAABdXs/A_Bthx5GDGsxHU_mgraHTr9mIDjeIBfkACPcBGAsYHg/w266-h400/IMG_4160.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yrbB58-C5_o/YRUUqY3eUaI/AAAAAAABdXw/UbLZuAjldYcnkebnD66Q2TmOZWQP8yv6ACPcBGAsYHg/s4032/IMG_4166.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2802" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yrbB58-C5_o/YRUUqY3eUaI/AAAAAAABdXw/UbLZuAjldYcnkebnD66Q2TmOZWQP8yv6ACPcBGAsYHg/w278-h400/IMG_4166.HEIC" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An instant of communion with a Cézanne.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OwlcJeBSH3I/YRUUw2bJ2yI/AAAAAAABdX0/XCtGebjB65A9soA2qaSx0qvOKZlQ2Bm_wCPcBGAsYHg/s1121/IMG_4174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="909" height="339" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OwlcJeBSH3I/YRUUw2bJ2yI/AAAAAAABdX0/XCtGebjB65A9soA2qaSx0qvOKZlQ2Bm_wCPcBGAsYHg/w275-h339/IMG_4174.JPG" width="275" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A5 sketchpad, framing expression of infinite dimensions.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WIBpAVlu8UQ/YRUVrkncCCI/AAAAAAABdX4/jlpuO2rt15ka1eSvO121RYUN8W_Y4dPhQCPcBGAsYHg/s4005/IMG_4153.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2537" data-original-width="4005" height="326" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WIBpAVlu8UQ/YRUVrkncCCI/AAAAAAABdX4/jlpuO2rt15ka1eSvO121RYUN8W_Y4dPhQCPcBGAsYHg/w513-h326/IMG_4153.HEIC" width="513" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Kilometres becoming scaled in centimetres.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Touches of light preciously preserved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ESiDfkdDymU/YRUWpCo_K1I/AAAAAAABdYE/bM31ynUIxjc2V6ZkNMxHoVOlqCjUvazMACPcBGAsYHg/s4032/IMG_4137.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2728" data-original-width="4032" height="343" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ESiDfkdDymU/YRUWpCo_K1I/AAAAAAABdYE/bM31ynUIxjc2V6ZkNMxHoVOlqCjUvazMACPcBGAsYHg/w506-h343/IMG_4137.HEIC" width="506" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Unfocused focus washing weariness away.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ephemera rendered eternal.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Taking a moment to contemplate.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pause, gaze, breathe in, remember.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>Moving, losing sight, feeling loss.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remembrance.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">That moment.</div><div style="text-align: center;">That minutiae.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jr3WWE-8xHE/YRUWIlRHkKI/AAAAAAABdYA/m4os2qI-uykbnAIDzpOnnBDWYVAVRXGVgCPcBGAsYHg/s1727/IMG_3928.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jr3WWE-8xHE/YRUWIlRHkKI/AAAAAAABdYA/m4os2qI-uykbnAIDzpOnnBDWYVAVRXGVgCPcBGAsYHg/w278-h400/IMG_3928.JPG" width="278" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmKwEvzxLDA/YRUV62v3_5I/AAAAAAABdX8/ZO62bqNhamAkd0stXHI4Fq2wnb-DC1aRwCPcBGAsYHg/s4032/IMG_4143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2802" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmKwEvzxLDA/YRUV62v3_5I/AAAAAAABdX8/ZO62bqNhamAkd0stXHI4Fq2wnb-DC1aRwCPcBGAsYHg/w278-h400/IMG_4143.JPG" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Words tramp through grass like Wellington Boots.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stop stomping around.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyi5b1gAQkY/YRUW3GZXOLI/AAAAAAABdYI/bPcz3fN1Cb4kQi_FjyMb8gFrAVzl8rQdwCPcBGAsYHg/s4032/IMG_4156.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2809" data-original-width="4032" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyi5b1gAQkY/YRUW3GZXOLI/AAAAAAABdYI/bPcz3fN1Cb4kQi_FjyMb8gFrAVzl8rQdwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h279/IMG_4156.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Present movement moments evaporate.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxn8sR3uB2E/YRUXDttYBDI/AAAAAAABdYM/FEXCLcweZO0-wmgB2Ee0C-gefnC46z6tgCPcBGAsYHg/s1200/IMG_4038.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1200" height="270" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxn8sR3uB2E/YRUXDttYBDI/AAAAAAABdYM/FEXCLcweZO0-wmgB2Ee0C-gefnC46z6tgCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h270/IMG_4038.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fine edge, broad sweep, fanned lines.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Found in nature. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Lost in flow.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Time absent in presence.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Touches of light preciously preserved.<br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-77731822378694676232021-06-17T14:30:00.031-07:002021-06-17T16:05:18.654-07:00Playgrounds 4 Anger.<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">[RUSHES.]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eESLFtuVEqs/YMu8rR6ycvI/AAAAAAABcL0/sAICj_eu5zQduqgoUupwUi8Qei1z90zbACLcBGAsYHQ/image.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eESLFtuVEqs/YMu8rR6ycvI/AAAAAAABcL0/sAICj_eu5zQduqgoUupwUi8Qei1z90zbACLcBGAsYHQ/w181-h181/image.gif" width="181" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids will see-saw.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See-saw-seen. Irregular verbs. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saw I II III. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WTF are we here 4?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEXT BOOK horror </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Franchises Disenfranchise!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUnctuATION</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NO POLITICS!! CORRupTion</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CAPITAL ERRS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WE don’t need NO EDUCATION. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 318px; overflow: hidden; width: 318px;"><img height="318" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/R6WtB869G6f7_zGfliMrb8lvWqOQiCnYYQT50a0YXDcsty322OSDxTyfcVOt7FNVxq3r_tyVs9hSLfPAGMhGrSui6R3n7xMxCW3bHdMwwiyULWemH8DLFnNEGs47AOD4yFFGJDUV" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="318" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids still see-saw</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walls will be gamed</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kills will be famed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;">SO</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;">WTF are we here 4?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are we just another brick?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COP-outs-US?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hit the bars.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rounds on me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">school walls, school boards, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hands up, put your hands up,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">just one more round?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">don’t mind if I do.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHEERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="174" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C24oUxUsjS1qVT__0VQJlW-58xCK_DSkE44FhAlmUBiAJILf89JB-3J1AW-ExH72XA9279jqgyff3sW6hnuwWcU-tLLqJ7V8J0J3IKTgxw0s67u7YmFY-LhIF2jmr_-rswXWSZz9" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="293" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STOP-GAP-GUY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">long term attention hold-ups, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who’s the hostages?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">while those kids nap.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eAxck3L_0_s/YMvC2RBK-DI/AAAAAAABcMI/03HUf6W3dRYDfPKSJR_4AYODnik2BegLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/AD621927-DE49-43FE-B21D-29663649EDCB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eAxck3L_0_s/YMvC2RBK-DI/AAAAAAABcMI/03HUf6W3dRYDfPKSJR_4AYODnik2BegLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/AD621927-DE49-43FE-B21D-29663649EDCB.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">high stakes stakeholders test,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">randomised roulette,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">roll the loaded dice,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">make a loan</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">debt 4 life</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">short term</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> contracts,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">insecurity? </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weaponised</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">bite the bullet</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="174" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C24oUxUsjS1qVT__0VQJlW-58xCK_DSkE44FhAlmUBiAJILf89JB-3J1AW-ExH72XA9279jqgyff3sW6hnuwWcU-tLLqJ7V8J0J3IKTgxw0s67u7YmFY-LhIF2jmr_-rswXWSZz9" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="293" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">security standards </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.schoolprison.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: magenta; color: white; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">prisons or schools</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: magenta; color: white; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 174px; overflow: hidden; width: 293px;"><img height="174" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C24oUxUsjS1qVT__0VQJlW-58xCK_DSkE44FhAlmUBiAJILf89JB-3J1AW-ExH72XA9279jqgyff3sW6hnuwWcU-tLLqJ7V8J0J3IKTgxw0s67u7YmFY-LhIF2jmr_-rswXWSZz9" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="293" /></span></span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Public service?</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Announcement.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/oclEjSpVS4g" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: magenta; color: white; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 15.000000000000002pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KNOW your (copy)RIGHTS</span></a><span style="background-color: magenta; color: white; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 15.000000000000002pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15.000000000000002pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">knowledge locked behind paywalls…</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I researched</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and found...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: magenta; color: white; font-family: "Roboto Mono", monospace; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://thenorthernreview.ca/index.php/nr/article/view/751/829" style="text-decoration: none;">What is the point of research if it is hardly read, especially by those it affects the most?</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1XgS7sTbf9c/YMu-lGRkDNI/AAAAAAABcL8/Eavm2zD2mNw8zyBAvKsqRtvHPcd9WVcxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s466/3F8A818F-BFC2-4562-8326-34E08DCF96D3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="466" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1XgS7sTbf9c/YMu-lGRkDNI/AAAAAAABcL8/Eavm2zD2mNw8zyBAvKsqRtvHPcd9WVcxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3F8A818F-BFC2-4562-8326-34E08DCF96D3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /></div>sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-35636611682288553492020-08-06T07:40:00.017-07:002020-08-06T11:59:10.495-07:00Broadened horizons. Focused, cooperative analysis.<b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Broadened horizons.</b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JwWArZe_WA/XywBls0rUXI/AAAAAAABYRs/KwZrmbkkioM5DYsSUsXQOVTqvnViukPygCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_1396.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JwWArZe_WA/XywBls0rUXI/AAAAAAABYRs/KwZrmbkkioM5DYsSUsXQOVTqvnViukPygCPcBGAsYHg/w512-h384/IMG_1396.JPG" width="512" /></a>There is a story line, I am struggling to map.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am living at a different rhythm, walking along the sea-shore, broadening my horizons, breathing in the sea-air...through a mask. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At least, I have got away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm on holiday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I take my time to paint wide swathes of land and sea then focus on details. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Board-walks, fishing tackle, barbed wire in the grass.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V8XXlT7jZYA/XywD812lK9I/AAAAAAABYR4/up4vU7r2208yNkoyFgQv8eQqPRwHAf9xwCPcBGAsYHg/s4032/IMG_1161.HEIC" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2954" height="514" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V8XXlT7jZYA/XywD812lK9I/AAAAAAABYR4/up4vU7r2208yNkoyFgQv8eQqPRwHAf9xwCPcBGAsYHg/w376-h514/IMG_1161.HEIC" width="376" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KmUo3Dh1fvY/XywEiP_ilaI/AAAAAAABYSA/F56zSjD9JusOaGDQ3yvP9q_nWffm1vOagCPcBGAsYHg/s1856/IMG_1409.JPG" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1856" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KmUo3Dh1fvY/XywEiP_ilaI/AAAAAAABYSA/F56zSjD9JusOaGDQ3yvP9q_nWffm1vOagCPcBGAsYHg/w410-h268/IMG_1409.JPG" width="410" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NA5VLrLwuU4/XywFTo5OdlI/AAAAAAABYSM/yBhJw_27IAAwvewzcJdgx8jPacuSOW3xQCPcBGAsYHg/s1893/IMG_1294.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1893" data-original-width="1184" height="643" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NA5VLrLwuU4/XywFTo5OdlI/AAAAAAABYSM/yBhJw_27IAAwvewzcJdgx8jPacuSOW3xQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h643/IMG_1294.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I alternate between mindful artistic meditation and broadening my intellectual knowledge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>I am taking my time.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have been taking the time to reimerse myself in methodology - Nexus Analysis (Scollon and Scollon)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have been taking the time to review and adapt such methodology to my particular research context.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I know that I am writing this in order to guide my actions with my friends towards the creation of a simple but multi-voiced storyline.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Focussed analysis informed by broadened and diverse perspectives</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I alternate between focusing on moments of interactions captured in photos of educational contexts here and there, the stories and diverse perspectives of the photographers and the people who appear framed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200223_121445-1024x765.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img height="455" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MWzC6e7W_kMqNLUMegb-hUFWpKJhGCNhkku9W2B6t_SpuA9IS3UnJNyobYBzdTKasIJXW9yRnx3fnchRi80B4s3N26bs5xZHDPdnPqPpUOm4O_K2o7niAbyMHCzxCDSYCsdOLS9z=w604-h455" style="font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="604" /></a><a href="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200223_121445-1024x765.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="393" src="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200223_121445-1024x765.jpg" width="524" /></a><span id="docs-internal-guid-91c58a82-7fff-2de6-8eee-ac837d3d1980" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5496c7c-7fff-6d21-a390-ad81f4f793ac" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><a href="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200223_121445-1024x765.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img height="368" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/SEpwc8r2-H1xtQsVVAn6gK7Osqn2cXAiZ-x5oThuX8SrHSrkeuGB_00HlviywRoKlgF2O3b1nbl3q-Sc7pqInEJuP5ew9hS01Mzaf2Bc37sctFso83s9bC1iOEKouOU3lPK4HVu1-zY=w491-h368" width="491" /></a></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6757ba78-7fff-698c-b21a-e4b5184ac200" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><a href="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200223_121445-1024x765.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img height="324" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cS-hKxrR1el6tT9jCV_VLSxev31dU3xfKAMHHL1nm-FFGhCtdm7kiLSOeoCgkhcbniGvI4FK53s1mFw0u97LL9UdDl3GlsIMIEio3bqL29Ruc0TQKwTALvAgdvozBraOzwSQnGoFO-0=w498-h324" width="498" /></a></span>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I must, therefore take the time to work with different perspectives of the same stories, the same images. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The work will be essentially limited by the time that we have but we must start with inclusivity as its guide. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It will be a cumulative, iterative process. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There will be... inevitably... be... ellipsis...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Masked, gagged, blindfolded.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The masks are a minor inconvenience, the political measures put in place by governments always hit the poor first... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In no way is a global pandemic a "great leveler".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7F6izrx_bXuChSQAGEJx_uqMrTnhJik/view?usp=sharing">Impact of COVID-19 on the Education Sector in Nepal: Challenges and Coping Strategies</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Intermittent connections</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are hanging onto our cooperation despite failing electrical supplies and internet signals, school closures, holidays and natural disasters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3klw3cHU-ME/Xywua9aMkfI/AAAAAAABYS0/GrcdDKuqgB0ifCra64SGj8RTsO2iRy0sACPcBGAsYHg/s913/IMG_0989.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3klw3cHU-ME/Xywua9aMkfI/AAAAAAABYS0/GrcdDKuqgB0ifCra64SGj8RTsO2iRy0sACPcBGAsYHg/s640/IMG_0989.PNG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Our storyline must reveal complexity through its simplicity.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is only a start but we must work on preparing the ground.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The foundations must be solid and easily identified.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It must be clear, it must make one essential point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is research for action...activist research.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I, we, are not alone, we are not working for academic career impact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Research for action, research as action.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another life story connects, <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">THIS < from <a href="https://twitter.com/jmeblommaert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jmeblommaert</a> « Looking back: What was important? – Ctrl+Alt+Dem » via <a href="https://twitter.com/sharmashyam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sharmashyam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rhizo14?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rhizo14</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clmooc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#clmooc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/digped?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#digped</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EurocallLang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EurocallLang</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UNICollaborate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNICollaborate</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/A_L_T?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@A_L_T</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/highered?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#highered</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/digpedlab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#digpedlab</a> <a href="https://t.co/mUZTKjeNZo">https://t.co/mUZTKjeNZo</a></p>— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) <a href="https://twitter.com/sensor63/status/1290991874644344832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>shared ironically by a Nepalese expat friend, <a href="https://twitter.com/sharmashyam?s=20">Shyam Sharma</a> and then reshared by <a href="https://twitter.com/ruhi1258?s=20">Kabi Paudel</a> in Katmandu.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A major research influence, <a href="@jmeblommaert">Jan Blommaert</a>, terminally ill, shares a testament to what matters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">"In a world in which knowledge is at once more widely available than ever before, and more exclusive and elitist than ever before, knowledge is a battlefield and those professionally involved in it must be aware of that. Speaking for myself: a neutral stance towards knowledge is impossible, for it would make knowledge anodyne, powerless, of little significance in the eyes of those exposed to it. Which is why </span><b><span style="color: red;">we need an activist attitude, one in which the battle for power-through-knowledge is engaged, in which knowledge is activated as a key instrument for the liberation of people, and as a central tool underpinning any effort to arrive at a more just and equitable society</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">. I have been a knowledge professional, indeed. But understanding what I have done as a professional is easier when one realizes the activism which, at least for me, made it worthwhile being a professional.</span></span><span face="" style="color: #1a1a1a;">" </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit;">Jan Blommaert</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Global discourses local translations...</b></div><div class="separator">I am questioning the international, national, local economic, political, educational, socio-cultural discourses which are the more or less visible backgrounds, or frames to the photos and stories. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have immersed myself in Nepalese history, authoritarian regimes, bloody civil war, nascent democracy, Hindu religion, educational reform, central control and decentralization policies, current economic and social realities of people in rural and urban areas, trying to capture some landmarks to guide my reflection. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ethnic and linguistic diversity, institutionalized caste and gender discrimination, chronic corruption, foreign interference and "aid", economic migration or expatriation according to the social status of the individual. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anthropocene</b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap" face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>,<span class="wrap" style="white-space: normal;"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>-/</a></span></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">ann-<span style="font-size: 12.6px;">THROP</span>-ə-seen, -<span style="font-size: 12.6px;">THROP</span>-oh-</i></a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">)</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a proposed </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(geology)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Epoch (geology)">geological epoch</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ecosystem">ecosystems</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, including, but not limited to, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropogenic_climate_change" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anthropogenic climate change">anthropogenic climate change</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AP-20141014-SB_2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-AP-20141014-SB-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Science2016_3-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-Science2016-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Edwards_4-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-Edwards-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-a_primer_for_geographers_5-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-a_primer_for_geographers-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></sup></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Common hopes and fears for a better more equitable, more environmentally sustainable future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is essential to the storyline: we are interconnected, we are one with the ecosystem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hinduism, amongst other religious traditions speaks of this indisputable truth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are one with the planet, not in anyway apart or above it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://wandervogeldiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ego-eco.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="http://wandervogeldiary.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ego-eco.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What is the human cost of modernity, discourses of "progress", "sustainable development"?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I am aided in my reflection by my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/14prinsp?s=20">Paul Prinsloo</a> who shares:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xok70PM7MsXDKdu2lekKeoDEO4F0WgBb/view?usp=sharing">Andreotti: Postcolonial perspectives in research on higher education for sustainable development.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It contains a short poem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H9UZzeXt2yA/Xywodmc-iiI/AAAAAAABYSY/BjTYWdYtH7EWfe9J3ZDyHQ6fggdhj33mQCPcBGAsYHg/s551/IMG_1416.PNG" style="display: block; 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I was lying in my bath, eyes closed, listening to Leonard Cohen's last album <i>"Thanks for the dance".</i><br />
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I was reading academic articles on my phone, filing them for future reference....</div>
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As so often, the act of choosing boxes for ideas, becomes tortuous...</div>
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So there I am being orderly, working on three conference submissions for the end of the week, with people in four different countries. </div>
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We had pretty much sorted out the author combinations, the lenses through which we would be observing our contexts.</div>
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<b>We could have stopped there. </b></div>
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But the more we look, the more we see.</div>
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But the more we speak, the more we hear.</div>
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But the more we know, the less we know.</div>
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The choices of lenses appeared to be changing daily.</div>
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Over time more connections and disconnections appear. </div>
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As we work together from our for ever changing respective positions, the more we are asking ourselves about whose voices are foregrounded, whose names are named, whose stories are told, whose languages are heard, whose translations are accepted and what forms best represent a momentary convergence of divergent sense making.</div>
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I go and find a screenshot of a quotation shared in Maha and Shyam's article:<br />
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USA for Africa...proudly presents:</div>
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Since when was America, Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, China, Russia et al there for Africa? </div>
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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/dec/22/the-new-scramble-for-africa-how-china-became-the-partner-of-choice">The New Scramble for Africa: how China became a partner of choice</a></li>
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That's it: Trump inadvertently speaks truth, SPACE FORCE:</div>
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Star Trek was always a projection of power....a military project.</div>
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Is theatre a means to enable Polyphony? </div>
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What is the difference, actually, between a formal lecture in an amphitheatre and a theatrical performance in an amphitheatre? </div>
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<i>"All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify."</i></div>
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We are faced with the impossibility of dismembering a complex entanglement of relationship-reality for the sake of academic convenience.</div>
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We write that we are not able to comply with such a simplification of our complex reality.</div>
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We hope that they will understand (accept our divergent realities).</div>
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We hope that they will understand (accept our realities).</div>
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Well we hope, and sometimes we are accepted for what we are for a moment.</div>
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It's not a planned methodological choice, it comes as a spontaneous doodle.</div>
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I sense not fragmentation but fractalisation, belonging, a being grounded, down to earth.<br />
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I find an article: « <a href="https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/the-planet-an-emergent-matter-of-spiritual-concern/"><span id="goog_1635075046"></span>The Planet: An emergent matter of spiritual concern<span id="goog_1635075047"></span></a>. » </div>
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When I speak of changing the world, I am not thinking of a globe.<br />
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I am thinking of the world in and within which I have made meaningful relationships.</div>
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I am not viewing from above. I am not looking for global reach. I am looking for local impact.</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Signing, signifying, signing, signifying possession, signifying power, signing words, signing facile meaning, signing order, signing posts, signing authenticity, signing with a signature, an individual signature.</span></b></div>
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<a class="title" data-author="Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1071382?ref=complexity" id="title_quote_link_1071382" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; display: block; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity."</i></span></a></div>
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I am suddenly reminded of <a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2017/03/criss-crossing.html" target="_blank">Criss-crossing</a> of the insanity of order, of <a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-keeping.html" target="_blank">Book-Keeping</a>.</div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">Thomas Huxley, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"></span><span id="quote_book_link_19345448" style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/27404825" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley</a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What is education for if it is not for peace (of mind)? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had noted down the meeting "P4P (Peace for People - Nepal) Teacher Hub" for Friday 30th January 2020 at 9:00 French time in my diary (15:45 in Nepal). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There were a number of people, among them, a couple of Nepalese teachers, who had joined a Facebook Messenger chat at the invitation of my friend Santosh Bidari, activist, for P<a href="http://peace4people.org/" target="_blank">eace for People Nepal</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5627f590-7fff-b2fd-1323-45d6b82475bf"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The fact that educators can now reach out to thousands also means that they need to slow down, to invite participants from different contexts for genuine participation, to listen and learn from others, to enrich their own understanding.” (Bali, Sharma, 2014)</span></span></span></i><br />
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We had talked together over the months, over the years about how to go about bringing change to our respective educational contexts.<br />
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Both of us have been working for over ten years with a guiding question:<br />
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"What can I, as an individual, do to work towards enabling a meaningful (life) education for myself and those around me?"<br />
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What is education for if it is not for peace (of mind)?<br />
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We have both been faced by obstacles, some insurmountable, set-backs more or less easy to laugh about.<br />
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I live in the Auvergne, a land of Volcanoes, which for the foreseeable future are at peace.<br />
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They indicate on building permits over here, perhaps laughably, that we live in a zone of seismic activity...<br />
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Santosh lives in Dhading Nepal, a zone of seismic activity, and experienced a catastrophic earthquake in 2015 measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale.<br />
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Learning about Santosh's work and speaking with him, his friends and colleagues, teachers and kids, I feel a mixture of emotions: awe, privilege, inspiration, happiness.<br />
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[When I read the experiences of others who have met him, I am not alone in feeling those emotions.<br />
Here's Kristine Tauch speaking of Santosh: <a href="https://www.thestorystore.de/post/the-change-can-start-with-me-hero-of-the-educational-system" target="_blank">The Change can start with me - Hero of the educational system</a>]<br />
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While we have had very different life experiences, while we may come from very different cultural backgrounds, while we many have very different levels of practical difficulties to overcome in our everyday lives, while we may have very different levels of freedom of movement around this OUR world, we have so much to learn from each other, and so many stories in common.<br />
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We have shared our stories of being brought up in religious family backgrounds, of the difficulties of seeing the world differently and choosing different paths to those of our parents. The dulling experience of many of the years we spent in school, the brutal, physical and verbal violence of teachers who left indelible marks on our bodies and our self-esteem. The inadaptation of an educational system which is reduced to the following of text books, copying from the board, bored to our cores, our core being stress-tested constantly for no other reason than that is what counts to those who count, to those who count.<br />
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We have been brought closer thanks to my ex-student, colleague, friend Terry Guirado who went to Nepal to work with Santosh and his association, living with his family, working, playing, laughing with the kids at the schools.<br />
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On his return, I remember having lunch with a Terry transformed, but at the same time disorientated.<br />
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How could he now find peace of mind back in France?<br />
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He was in a state of culture shock.<br />
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Santosh, told me a story this morning of Terry's disorientation when faced with the reality of reliably unreliable electricity supply, lack of running water, the dawn rise rythms of the household, the time taken to get the water, to make the meal, to do the washing, to get to the next village, to reach the next town.<br />
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And I am suddenly thinking back to 1970's oil crisis, British power cuts, candles and our childlike excitement from being freed from the boredom of evening classes at boarding school.<br />
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God, I had forgotten how much power-cuts were a god-send.<br />
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THEN: NO ELECTRICITY! F***ING REJOICE!<br />
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NOW: NO ELECTRICITY! F***ING MORE EXPLETIVES!<br />
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And I am now thinking of how Terry is different now.<br />
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He was always different but now working on his thesis, his way of being, his peace of mind shines out like a beacon.<br />
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He appears relatively serene when faced with the pressures of his academic environment.<br />
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He has asked himself that question that we now share:<br />
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"What can I, as an individual, do to work towards enabling a meaningful (life) education for myself and those around me?"<br />
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One of his answers was to set up an association in France, a branch of Peace for People:<br />
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<a href="http://peaceforpeoplefrance.org/" target="_blank">Peace for People France</a><br />
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Another of his answers was to come and share his experiences with perhaps 200 French students (modest estimate).<br />
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He has just messaged me with news of an event organised to collect funds for 8 students going to Nepal in March to walk and work with Peace for People and the kids that they help.<br />
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The event had attracted over 200 students who would run for kids in Nepal.<br />
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The excitement in his voice in the audio message left on Facebook Messenger speaks volumes.<br />
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Finding a common pupose, feeling togetherness, sharing effort, dreaming aloud, moves mountains.<br />
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No doubt he will share stories from the event on his website and we will find time to share this day's work.<br />
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Not that long ago, Terry was selling doughnuts and chocolates, to be able to go and help kids in Nepal.<br />
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Not that long ago, not one student that I spoke with of Peace for People had plucked up the courage to pack their bags and get to Nepal.<br />
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Now there's two hundred kids running around an athletics track for a small association in Dhading.<br />
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I feel mixed emotions: awe, privilege, inspiration, happiness.<br />
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The impact of Terry's story, Santosh's story, the stories of these, our weirdly connected learning communities is such that we are working together on a research project and a joint conference submission.<br />
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How can people from the "Global North" and the "Global South" work together to enable meaningful lives and educations for themselves and those around them?<br />
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How can we work towards peace of mind, peace and protection for this fragile world which we call home?<br />
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How can we work together with the ethically and ecologically dirty technological means at hand, the data limits, the battery limits, the linguistic limits, to learn what really counts?<br />
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We are there together with Santosh, and Ram myself, and his family.<br />
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We manage communicating in English, not just a means of dominion but a means of communion.<br />
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I remember reading a Paul Prinsloo share:<br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/africa-coloniasation-english-language-oxford-dictionary-nigerian?fbclid=IwAR2xZgazvi2S1LRPYAS8WwAn9S8lDYKHPrSOavYSEchuuqpF1vyriz-U2BI" target="_blank">Africa's colonisation of the English language continues apace</a>.<br />
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And I realise that I am already learning a new version of English, a Nepalese version, which includes "Namaste" "Sir" and "Miss" - yet another English to go with the Englishes that I am already more fluent in.<br />
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So here I am, sitting on a bench, choosing to write before I can eat to have some sort of peace of mind and I have 10 minutes before I meet with another close distant friend and colleague.<br />
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And we share that question:<br />
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Because what else is there to do?<br />
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So there we are, Santosh and Simon and then Ram and his son and family meeting somewhere between life and death and IPs on a net, and others elsewhere asking ourselves the question:<br />
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"What can I do to work towards a meaningful education (life) for myself, my family and people around me?"<br />
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<i><b>"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." </b></i><br />
<i><b>John Dewey.</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few hours later, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Aasha, another Nepalese teacher in this nascent "Teacher's hub", who couldn't make the meeting was able to witness our joy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #444950; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">"You had such a good time with them@Simon sir. I enjoy watching this."</span><br />
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And I say to myself that that moment of dialogue was a moment of life well spent.<br />
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And I say to myself that I can be of use to others when I feel useless, that I can learn with others when I feel ignorant, that I can be present for others when I am absent.<br />
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And I say to myself that now I feel, for an instant at least, some peace of mind...<br />
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I should be doing other things.<br />
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I could have been escaping into watercolor, charcoal, graphite... ether.<br />
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I had been away so long from writing here that I was hit by the mass invasion of spam comments, overwhelmed by the fake audience stats.<br />
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I looked at the puny world map, and noted an extraordinary number of Russian page visits...<br />
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Russian bots, I muttered to myself.<br />
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There had been a time when I would blog daily, the words would flow easily, the eagerness to hit "publish" gave me an absurd rush of adrenaline...for what?<br />
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This was Touches of Sense...<br />
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So, I had no regrets.<br />
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I have few regrets.<br />
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<b>They have my numbers, they have my profile, they have trawled my soul.</b><br />
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I remember notes on a student's oral presentation <i>"excellent with limited means".</i><br />
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Then, I had nothing more to add.<br />
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<b>I had hit PAUSE.</b><br />
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So here I find myself, relatively privileged, with two passports, a steady, relatively satisfying job, with connections to people around the world with whom I have found my voice, learnt, learnt my value, studied, grown, written poetry and found cheer.<br />
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What was that Bahktin quote that <a href="https://hybridpedagogy.org/bonds-difference-participation-inclusion/" target="_blank">Maha and Shyam shared</a>?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "alegreya" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><i>“I am conscious of myself and become myself only while revealing myself for another, through another, and with the help of another… I cannot manage without another, I cannot become myself without another” </i></span><br />
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<b>Illusions of freedom.</b><br />
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The other day, I found myself saying to a student of Congolese origins:<br />
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"this classroom is a battlefield, we are fighting for our freedom, we are living in a war-zone."<br />
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That warzone for some of us is the size of a puny World map on a screen, on a wall, in our puny minds, with areas colored to indicate borders, territories countries and empires.<br />
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For others it is the dismembered bodies of their children become collateral damage of a drone attack.<br />
For others it is their burnt out worker-spouse hanging from a beam.<br />
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There are those who know nothing of and care nothing for our lives.<br />
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<b>Disillusions of freedom.</b><br />
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There we were talking about our experiences, smartphones at hand.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc" target="_blank">"Is your phone tainted by the misery of 35,000 children in Congo's mines?"</a><br />
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The other day, I found myself remembering out loud to students a childhood memory of a comic story from the late nineteen sixties. It was a story of an alien society where the young generation were addicted to little boxes which took them away from the reality of their world and once inside their little boxes they were lost for all.<br />
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I have so many real connections to disembodied, screen-captured people, that it is only now occuring to me that there is a fine line between enabling access and maintaining distance.<br />
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It's the hygiaphone separating the prisoner from the prisoner's visitor.<br />
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The prisoner has metal chains, the prisoner's visitor has emotional bonds...as long as they last.<br />
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I find myself at a loss for words, sinking into the masonry of a wall or drawing a pile of skulls.<br />
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I have written in the past of how we have been occupied, of how I had and have been occupied, (collected here in <a href="https://flipboard.com/@sensor63/a-military-education-311tobvty?from=share" target="_blank">A Military Education</a> or <a href="https://flipboard.com/@sensor63/empire-v7hn3g5oy" target="_blank">Empire</a> or <a href="https://flipboard.com/@sensor63/obstacles-07vnol0ry?from=share" target="_blank">Obstacles</a>) of how I was brought up to wave flags for the monarch's jubilee, cheer for the three lions, the red rose, and feel proud to sing as one man "Land of hope and glory."<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Land of Hope and Glory</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Mother of the Free</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">How shall we extol thee</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Who are born of thee?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Wider still, and wider</span></span></div>
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Shall thy bounds be set;</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">God, who made thee mighty</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Make thee mightier yet!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">God make thee mightier yet!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">On Sov'ran brows, beloved, renowned</span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">
Once more thy crown is set</div>
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Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained</div>
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Have ruled thee well and long;</div>
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By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained</div>
</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">
Thine Empire shall be strong</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">Thy fame is ancient as the days</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">As Ocean large and wide:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;">A pride that dares, and heeds not praise</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "programme" , sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: left;">
A stern and silent pride</div>
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Not that false joy that dreams content</div>
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With what our sires have won;</div>
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The blood a hero sire hath spent</div>
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Still nerves a hero son</div>
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Do they still sing those old hymns in churches and school chapels around the land or have they been quietly put aside?</div>
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<b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #00509f;">And did those feet in ancient time</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><b><span style="color: #00509f;">Walk upon England's mountain green?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00509f;"></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #00509f;"><b><span style="color: #00509f;">And was the holy Lamb of God</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #00509f;"><b><span style="color: #00509f;">On England's pleasant pastures seen?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00509f;">And did the countenance divine</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00509f;">Shine forth upon our clouded hills?</span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #00509f;"><span style="font-size: large;">And was Jerusalem builded here</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00509f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Among those dark satanic mills</span>?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: right;">
Bring me my bow of burning gold!</div>
</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: right;">
Bring me my arrows of desire!</div>
</span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: right;">
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!</div>
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Bring me my chariot of fire!</div>
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I will not cease from mental fight,</div>
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Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,</div>
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Till we have built Jerusalem</div>
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In England's green and pleasant land.</div>
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<b>Onward and onward, christian soldiers.</b><br />
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Now things are not so white and black, nor grey, they are become red in tooth and claw.<br />
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As they always really were.<br />
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The survivors of past World Wars knew the horrific trurth.<br />
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Now distance, context and monolithic histories are collapsing, stories of heroism become stories of hedonism and holocaust perpetuated on those we were fighting to save, or for Christ's sake, to anihilate.<br />
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And so on and on it goes, the (their) war for freedom....<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“I don’t think we’ve seen anything quite like it in terms of the two different narratives that have been going on in Syria.<span style="font-weight: lighter; text-align: center;">“I get called a regime change journalist all the time. I don’t support either side but you get accused of supporting the rebels because you report on the [Syrian] government’s atrocities.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: lighter; text-align: center;">And it is becoming clearer and clearer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: lighter; text-align: center;">Nobody in my family was ever really fighting for a Land of Hope of Glory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: lighter; text-align: center;">It was a land of Satanic Mills and bellowing chimneys, bellowing chimneys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: lighter; text-align: center;">And grimy mill owners...hungry for another bloody war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/brexit-will-cost-uk-more-than-total-payments-to-eu-2020-1" target="_blank">Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together</a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">can't brush them off lightly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so leaving crumbs on sheets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">typing insomnia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>leaving coins on sheets.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Heads or tales?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Your call or thine?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"What the fuck?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It won't add up to 'owt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">counting insomnia</span></div>
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<b>nailing down planks.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">corpse limbs skewed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">corpse hymns jagged</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">shattered, </span></div>
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grieving insomnia</div>
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no rest in peace.</div>
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<b>scratching stubble on cheeks,</b></div>
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hardly alive,</div>
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looks unkempt,</div>
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hair thinning, </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">turns the tap to cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">adjusts feeble flow, </span></div>
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I had spent a little less than a month working on portraits, drawn or painted from photos, and then, unannounced, this face emerged.<br />
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Well as far as I am concerned he was a piece of recreation.<br />
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I simply played with colours and forms until it said stop.<br />
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I stopped to contemplate what he or it might mean for future acts.<br />
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I find working purposefully, in a concentrated manner on study , on technique, tiring but valuable. I realise that this will be a constant source of frustration but also a challenge and a potential source of satisfaction.<br />
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It is this path which arouses my curiosity, which begs me to retrace my steps. </div>
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Why, I ask myself, does one image attract at a particular moment? </div>
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The monster can't appear without the work on portraiture, the monster can't appear without the freedom to create.</div>
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I suppose what I find so wrong about much of classical education is that teachers don't wait for students to naturally and instinctively search for answers, for mastery, to their own personal questions, to map out their own personal paths.</div>
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Most of the time creativity is not called for, only unthinking tracing.</div>
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I find myself taking screen shots of the artwork of others, as reference, as inspiration.</div>
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I find myself watching documentaries retracing the artistic paths of others. </div>
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I think again how objects, images, memories become markers on our maps, moorings for our lives.</div>
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I glance over at my bookcase and see the mountaineering section, the aikido section, the Stanislavski and Chekov books on acting, the various tomes concerning educational research from the past ten years. Each section represents moments, hours, years of attention, enthusiasm, passion, and its waning.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">Thomas Mann, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"></span><span id="quote_book_link_53064" style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3458170" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Death in Venice and Other Tales</a></span></i></span></div>
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<br />sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-77983598025137824162019-04-08T09:52:00.000-07:002019-04-08T10:13:29.913-07:00The big picture.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Preamble.</b><br />
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I hadn't blogged twice in a day for months. Then Maha made a comment on Twitter. It was a response and a appreciative comment to a blog post I shared with her.<br />
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There isn’t and never has been “A big picture” only ever moving, solitary and ephemeral collages... “A big picture” is a lie.</div>
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<b>The big picture</b><br />
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Sorry this is an inane rant.<br />
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So this (the map above) is the (a) big picture.<br />
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This is a perspective that I was brought up with.<br />
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This is a perspective that I was educated with.<br />
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My father was born in 1907, the year on the map of the World.<br />
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It's a big world made smaller with all of that pink.<br />
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The pink here represents the British Empire.<br />
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The pink represents the worldview of some people in 2019, they still hark back to it in their attitudes, arrogance, their bank balances and their politics.<br />
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[BREXIT]<br />
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[JOHNSON, FARRAGE, REES AND MOGG]<br />
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[THE COMMON (cough) WEALTH]<br />
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There is this idea that all of this and all of that land belongs to "us" and not to "them".<br />
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That is the big picture - power.<br />
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[POWER AND CRICKET AND AFTERNOON TEA AND GREENWICH MEAN TIME]<br />
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<b>BIG PICTURE = BIG POWER.</b><br />
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Power built on military domination, torture, slavery, expropriation, exploitation, land of hope and glory, "Christianity", Inanity, songs, prayers and lies.<br />
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<b>"OUR HISTORY" - THE BIG PICTURE.</b><br />
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PROGRESS THROUGH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.<br />
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PROGRESS THROUGH FREE MARKET EXCHANGE.<br />
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PROGRESS THROUGH DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM.<br />
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(Altenatively: progress through Chinese Communist Party etc )<br />
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PROGRESS THROUGH SUPERIOR VALUES.<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational reverence to science being an explanation for all.<br />
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[I had a class with people who told me this only a few days ago...]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational hope in strong men being an answer to politics.<br />
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[TRUMP, PUTIN, BOLSONARO, ORBAN, MUSSOLINI, NETANYAHU, HITLER, etc]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational bigotry that white people are innately superior.<br />
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[WHITE SUPREMACISTS, KKK, etc]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational belief in their "god" granting them the right to kill.<br />
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[TOO MANY TO MENTION]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational belief that humans are simply men and women and nothing in between.<br />
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[TOILETS, GENDER CORRECTION SURGERY]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational belief that Western societies are built on meritocracies or goodwill.<br />
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[LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY]<br />
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There are still people who hold onto an irrational belief in "individual success", the primacy of the individual.<br />
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We love stories of good and evil.<br />
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[AXIS OF EVIL, GOD the DEVIL]<br />
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We love ideas of heroes and villains.<br />
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[MANDELA - MANDELA]<br />
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We talk of saints and monsters.<br />
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[POPE(S)]<br />
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The big picture is a comforting lie....for those who like the picture.<br />
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[GOD SAVE THE QUEEN THE FASCIST REGIME, THEY MADE YOU A MORON]<br />
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We love our myths, our legends, our narratives, our plays with neat beginnings and endings.<br />
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<b>POWER NOW INCLUDES PINK POWER!!!</b><br />
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Of course now, if we wear rose tinted spectacles, we might think of pink representing a new trendy, liberal, more caring Britain.<br />
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<b>Uncomforting Exceptions to the big picture...</b><br />
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Somewhere in all of that pink there is a little land called Brunei.<br />
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"The British" no doubt found support for a pet exotic, a Sultan convenient.<br />
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They kept him sweet over the years with Eton, baubles, bullets and flattery.<br />
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They oiled the wheels of his Rolls Royces, with the oil that came cheap.<br />
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They fêted his presence in their big picture with our majestic Queen.<br />
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Now that ex-pink has it in for all the pinks present.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "guardian egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 34px;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/brunei-brings-in-death-by-stoning-as-punishment-for-gay-sex" target="_blank">Brunei introduces death by stoning as punishment for gay sex</a></span><br />
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Big picture of big building.<br />
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<b>Post scriptum</b><br />
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Sigh. Yes Simon. I meant the context :) I think I can get my head around your writing when I interact with you for longer periods of time, more immersive... but when it's decontextualized, it's beauty i don't fully understand but still appreciate</div>
— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🏵 (@Bali_Maha) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha/status/1115270947936849920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
Sigh, sometimes, often even, we get sparked by comments and words taken out of context.<br />
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(It's been too long a while that Maha and I have not interacted)<br />
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<b>Sparks can light candles or bonfires.</b><br />
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I fear that the story in the Guardian about a tiny country and its tyrant will spark more islamophobia and more "big pictures" with more big headlines.<br />
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I wonder when we will be able to appreciate the beauty in people's expression of spirituality, or sexuality, the value of all people over that of oil, pf the value of life over material possessions, of the reality of our common humanity, and to accept a more equitable, more complex, less graspable, less controlled, more moving collage.<br />
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<b>Post post scriptum.</b><br />
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The big picture is that this post is a mark of individual privilege and servitude- a few data points for those who have access to the means to interpret "big data" and use it for their ends.<br />
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Looking at all that blue doesn't make me yearn for the pink but makes me wonder how it will affect the stories people will tell their children...</div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: large;">We are indeed slaves to what brings us freedom....</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had no words, I could not speak.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>"If you don't know what to play, play nothing."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Miles Davis</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I glanced darkly at serious sounding tweaks...to those familiar choruses.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tweaks, to serious sounding choruses.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Hurrah! </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Blah!</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Dada dada...</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tweets, so many characters... that said it all.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They...that... said it all.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They...that...didn't speak to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They...that...didn't speak for them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I heard not a jot.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing but...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Serious, sounding, tweets.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tweaks, to serious sounding choruses.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;">Zip-a-D</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">ee-Doo-Dah!</span></i><br />
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<i>Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! </i></div>
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<i>Bird thou never wert, </i></div>
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<i>That from Heaven, or near it, </i></div>
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<i>Pourest thy full heart </i></div>
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<i>In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. </i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Higher still and higher </i></div>
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<i>From the earth thou springest </i></div>
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<i>Like a cloud of fire; </i></div>
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<i>The blue deep thou wingest, </i></div>
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<i>And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. </i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>In the golden lightning </i></div>
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<i>Of the sunken sun, </i></div>
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<i>O'er which clouds are bright'ning, </i></div>
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<i>Thou dost float and run; </i></div>
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<i>Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. </i></div>
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<i>The pale purple even </i></div>
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<i>Melts around thy flight; </i></div>
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<i>Like a star of Heaven, </i></div>
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<i>In the broad day-light </i></div>
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<i>Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight, </i></div>
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<i>Keen as are the arrows </i></div>
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<i>Of that silver sphere, </i></div>
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<i>Whose intense lamp narrows </i></div>
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<i>In the white dawn clear </i></div>
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<i>Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. </i></div>
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<i>All the earth and air </i></div>
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<i>With thy voice is loud, </i></div>
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<i>As, when night is bare, </i></div>
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<i>From one lonely cloud </i></div>
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<i>The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflow'd. </i></div>
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<i>What thou art we know not; </i></div>
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<i>What is most like thee? </i></div>
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<i>From rainbow clouds there flow not </i></div>
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<i>Drops so bright to see </i></div>
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<i>As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. </i></div>
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<i>Like a Poet hidden </i></div>
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<i>In the light of thought, </i></div>
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<i>Singing hymns unbidden, </i></div>
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<i>Till the world is wrought </i></div>
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<i>To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: </i></div>
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<i>Like a high-born maiden </i></div>
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<i>In a palace-tower, </i></div>
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<i>Soothing her love-laden </i></div>
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<i>Soul in secret hour </i></div>
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<i>With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: </i></div>
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<i>Like a glow-worm golden </i></div>
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<i>In a dell of dew, </i></div>
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<i>Scattering unbeholden </i></div>
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<i>Its a{:e}real hue </i></div>
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<i>Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: </i></div>
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<i>Like a rose embower'd </i></div>
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<i>In its own green leaves, </i></div>
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<i>By warm winds deflower'd, </i></div>
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<i>Till the scent it gives </i></div>
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<i>Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves: </i></div>
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<i>Sound of vernal showers </i></div>
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<i>On the twinkling grass, </i></div>
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<i>Rain-awaken'd flowers, </i></div>
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<i>All that ever was </i></div>
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<i>Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. </i></div>
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<i>Teach us, Sprite or Bird, </i></div>
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<i>What sweet thoughts are thine: </i></div>
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<i>I have never heard </i></div>
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<i>Praise of love or wine </i></div>
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<i>That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. </i></div>
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<i>Chorus Hymeneal, </i></div>
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<i>Or triumphal chant, </i></div>
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<i>Match'd with thine would be all </i></div>
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<i>But an empty vaunt, </i></div>
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<i>A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. </i></div>
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<i>What objects are the fountains </i></div>
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<i>Of thy happy strain? </i></div>
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<i>What fields, or waves, or mountains? </i></div>
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<i>What shapes of sky or plain? </i></div>
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<i>What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? </i></div>
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<i>With thy clear keen joyance </i></div>
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<i>Languor cannot be: </i></div>
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<i>Shadow of annoyance </i></div>
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<i>Never came near thee: </i></div>
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<i>Thou lovest: but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. </i></div>
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<i>Waking or asleep, </i></div>
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<i>Thou of death must deem </i></div>
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<i>Things more true and deep </i></div>
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<i>Than we mortals dream, </i></div>
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<i>Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? </i></div>
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<i>We look before and after, </i></div>
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<i>And pine for what is not: </i></div>
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<i>Our sincerest laughter </i></div>
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<i>With some pain is fraught; </i></div>
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<i>Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. </i></div>
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<i>Yet if we could scorn </i></div>
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<i>Hate, and pride, and fear; </i></div>
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<i>If we were things born </i></div>
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<i>Not to shed a tear, </i></div>
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<i>I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. </i></div>
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<i>Better than all measures </i></div>
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<i>Of delightful sound, </i></div>
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<i>Better than all treasures </i></div>
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<i>That in books are found, </i></div>
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<i>Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! </i></div>
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<i>Teach me half the gladness </i></div>
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<i>That thy brain must know, </i></div>
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<i>Such harmonious madness </i></div>
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<i>From my lips would flow </i></div>
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<i>The world should listen then, as I am listening now. </i></div>
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Oh, tweets, I regret.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">I had no interest in reading them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The thought of opening up the computer was an anathema to me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Associated as it is with marks, tables, charts and mail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Blogging every day? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I had no words, nothing to write.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Hurrah!</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Blah!</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Blah!</i></span></div>
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<b>Drawing energy from somewhere.</b><br />
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<i>"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Drawing everyday, drawing everyday? Not if it becomes a bind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">I will not be a slave to what brings me freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Drawing prompts can become a bind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Drawing encouragement? Yes, gratefully accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;">Drawing for likes? Not if it becomes a bind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Drawing commissions? Not if it becomes a bind.</span></div>
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<b>Drawing free-hand.</b><br />
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<i>"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John W. Gardner.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">I took to drawing in ink, portraits - fast - one false move of the hand and I ruined everything.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">That beautiful child, I stole her image, I destroyed her here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">I am thoughtlessly privileged, she is a distant disposable soul.</span></div>
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I am less forgiving now of the <a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2016/10/medieval.html" target="_blank">child who didn't always hold onto his dreams.</a> </div>
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<i><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/03/dreams-drawn.html" target="_blank">Dreams drawn...</a></i></div>
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Dreams are resistant fifty years on...</div>
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<i><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 17.6px;">"This art is still alive to me.</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 17.6px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , "freemono" , monospace; font-size: 17.6px;">Resistant to academic form, I make do with child-informed imagery. It has a keen edge."</span></i></div>
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Now 57, <span style="font-family: inherit;">I discover that drawing aged, wrinkled, lined faces is more forgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have become wrongly or rightly, more forgiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I still play with digital filtering, I don't see that as an easy option, years of messing has widened my artistic palette. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I am concentrating on ink drawing, or water color, or training my eye, expertise only comes from days and days of practice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">"</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman";">As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";"><i>Vincent van Gogh</i> </span></div>
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A comment <span style="font-family: inherit;">of Gardner Campbell </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">on a post here - </span><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/10/are-we-not-content.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><i>Are we not content ?</i></a><i style="font-family: inherit;"> </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> comes back to me.</span></div>
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Tangled roots inspired by photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/amyburvall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amyburvall</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/marchdoodle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#marchdoodle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clmooc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#clmooc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/watercolorpainting?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#watercolorpainting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/landscapepainting?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#landscapepainting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/doodlewashmarch2019?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#doodlewashmarch2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/7qzh6gRG6G">pic.twitter.com/7qzh6gRG6G</a></div>
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This art, far from being irrelevant to scholarship, is intimately connected to my research.</div>
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It is about freedom.</div>
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Freedom from definition, from category, from measure, from market, from seductive hits of likes, friends, impact rating, elite validation.</div>
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"Despite my broken compass, I walk, questioning. Like Sandra de la Loza and Eduardo Molinari, I am overwhelmed by the complexities of the world I live, work and breathe in. I am looking for ways to consciously inhabit my situation, to find a language to speak about, but also speak <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to</em> my situation. I craft daily ‘to do’ lists and scribbles on serviettes in an attempt to archive my history, my <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">situation</em>.</div>
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In an act of archivist witchcraft I dance naked in this blog, to “unlock and reveal obscured narratives and hidden ghosts” in my life as scholar as archival material. The opening of the archive to my scholarly identity, despair and praxis, is an intentional ritual of scholarly witchcraft, of ‘cruel optimism’ as I shake my compass, and keep walking.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px;">"And yet, despite the unraveling, and the smell of drowning, I have to figure a way out of being attached to the very situation or life that is causing the drowning."</span><br />
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— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) <a href="https://twitter.com/sensor63/status/1113890023387086850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This is hope Paul:<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Vincent van Gogh</span></span></i><br />
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<b>Spinning yarns, following twine.</b><br />
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Now I come to think about it, I see hope everywhere, when not many days ago all I saw was despair.<br />
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I see hope in Paul's despair.<br />
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How can you not despair when confronted by the ugliness of human cruelty, the avarice of market stall holders, the insanity of masters of war, the measurement of <i>"learning"</i>, the simplification of the wonder and complexity of nature, the idiocracy of academia, the kleptocracy of those few who seek power over the many?<br />
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If forgiveness is all the hope we can cling to, my rage remains for what is done, will be done, to what is being done to those who deserve better.<br />
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Anger is an energy.<br />
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<a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/11/no-future.html" target="_blank"><i>No Future? Rise UP!</i></a><br />
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I see hope, beauty and nature in small acts of kindness, the eyes of children, in the generous comments, small stories and images shared freely by my friends and mentors.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A picture is a poem without words." Horace</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I see hope in those who seek escape, in those who demonstrate, who remonstrate, who weep.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">If I have been silent here, it means that I am, like Paul,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px;">"overwhelmed by the complexities of the world I live, work and breathe in. I am looking for ways to consciously inhabit my situation, to find a language to speak about, but also speak </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> my situation."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i><b><a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2018/12/present-in-silence.html" target="_blank">Words just won't do.</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;">I am present in silence, but I refuse to be a by-stander.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I people a painting of a deserted beach with my children looking out to sea.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">While just across the channel, over the page, I draw the children of others drowning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Painting is just another way of keeping a diary</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.” </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Pablo Picasso </strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I put together a collage of this, my silent diary.</span><br />
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I can't honestly remember what I was working on.<br />
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It was late in the evening after a long day.<br />
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And then....<br />
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<b>Accidents will happen...</b><br />
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A three quarters full mug of coffee was spilt over the table, the sketch book, narrowly missed the phone.<br />
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It was a sketch book that had already suffered having numerous pages ripped in two.<br />
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All that bloody art...lost.<br />
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<b>A flight of birds shredded...</b><br />
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I find some consolation and inspiration in Kintsugi.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">"Translated to</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">“golden joinery,” </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Kintsugi</span><span style="background-color: white;"> (or </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Kintsukuroi</span><span style="background-color: white;">, which means “golden repair”) is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a special lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Beautiful seams of gold glint in the cracks of ceramic ware, giving a unique appearance to the piece."</span></i></span><br />
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A moment of joy, a moment of anger, a moment of grief...<br />
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In taking the time to gild the grief, I find new meaning in my relationship to what was and what is.<br />
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<i>"You lose only what you cling to." Buddha.</i><br />
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Working regularly has made me less concerned about what has been done before.<br />
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I note that many artists destroy their artwork.<br />
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<b>Deliberate destruction.</b><br />
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I find an article in <a href="https://art.art/uncategorized/artists-destroyed-work-way-banksy-online-art-shredder/" target="_blank">ART</a> telling a notorious story of destruction:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Our favourite story in the long history of art destruction concerns American pop/conceptual artist Robert Rauschenberg. Early in his career, inspired by the work of Marcel Duchamp, he decided he wanted to test the boundaries of what could be deemed a work of art. Could a work of art be created, he wondered, through the act of erasure? He started out by rubbing out one of his own drawings. It didn’t work. He felt that the destruction of a not very important work by a then not very important artist didn’t really test his idea sufficiently. Rauschenberg decided the only thing to do was to destroy a significant work of art by a significant artist. And so, he gathered up the courage to show up at the studio of Willem de Kooning, a Dutch-American painter. De Kooning didn’t approve, but still provided a selection of his paintings to choose from, believing that young artists should be allowed to experiment.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Rauschenberg then took one of the master’s paintings away and tirelessly worked on the act of destruction, eventually erasing all visible traces of De Kooning’s image. He then took the now blank paper to Jasper Johns, his great friend and fellow artist and asked him to create a frame for the piece. Johns did as he was asked and produced a label which read:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>‘ERASED de KOONING’ ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, 1953"</i></span></div>
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<b>No use crying over spilt coffee...</b><br />
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I sponged up the coffee, put the sketchbook on the radiator to dry.<br />
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A couple of days later and I took time to inspect the damage.<br />
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Pages stuck together,<br />
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Sepia coffee stains had dried in weird patterns.<br />
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Suddenly I see the sketchpad and the accident in a new light.<br />
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Suddenly I see stories, landscapes, potential for play.<br />
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<b>The deliberate accident in art.</b><br />
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After a couple of days of play, I find an article from the Tate museum on deliberate accidents and share it with my friends.<br />
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The deliberate accident in art | Tate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clmooc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#clmooc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NomadWarMachine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NomadWarMachine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dogtrax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dogtrax</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/telliowkuwp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@telliowkuwp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wentale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wentale</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ronald_2008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ronald_2008</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/amyburvall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amyburvall</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/febdoodle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#febdoodle</a> <a href="https://t.co/dSffN6rdgh">https://t.co/dSffN6rdgh</a></div>
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I realise that I have always worked partly in this way looking for meaning in apparent chaos.<br />
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I remember writing about how my mother would collect all sorts of objects with no obvious intrinsic value because she saw something in them., here in <a href="https://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/10/driftwood-curiosity.html" target="_blank">Driftwood curiosity:</a><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;">"I am content you see no value.</b></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;">I see myself standing on a beach.</span></span></i></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.6px;">You have left me quite alone.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 17.6px;">I bend down to pick it up."</span></i></div>
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<b>Drawing means and drawing out meaning.</b><br />
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I am torn between drawing "well" from life and drawing out meaning from the abundant well of life.<br />
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I am torn between deliberate and accidental in my artistic acts.<br />
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I feel comfortable with what is accidental but also love the discipline of technique.<br />
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I find a quote of Camus.<br />
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<i>"I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart." </i><br />
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This is the longest period of continual drawing, painting, that I have done in my life.</div>
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OK, I must have done regular art classes at school, I kept bits and pieces.</div>
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But there was nothing much to show for all that time spent so long ago.</div>
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<b>Only a draw....a calling...long ignored.</b></div>
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For 40 years:</div>
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I would turn out one or two scraps.</div>
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Then I would busy myself with all the other life stuff that called me to action or inaction:</div>
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<li><i>Running</i></li>
<li><i>Climbing</i></li>
<li><i>Traveling</i></li>
<li><i>Exploring family history</i></li>
<li><i>Acting</i></li>
<li><i>Exploring work</i></li>
<li><i>Exploring Relationships</i></li>
<li><i>Doing Psychoanalysis</i></li>
<li><i>Raising children</i></li>
<li><i>Grieving</i></li>
<li><i>Networking online</i></li>
<li><i>Exploring tech</i></li>
<li><i>Teaching</i></li>
<li><i>Writing</i></li>
<li><i>Researching</i></li>
<li><i>Ageing</i></li>
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Regular blogging, connected learning, turned my hand to writing, creating, stuff....with friends.</div>
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It is, it has been an ongoing mapping process.</div>
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Often I would come back to drawing...then do.</div>
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I have had blogging sprees, averaging 10 posts a month.</div>
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<i>2014 - 124 posts</i></div>
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Then the reflection on education and associated MOOCS has slown down...with my hope.</div>
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<i>2017 - 60 posts</i></div>
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Along the way I have found the sound of my voices, how my writing sounds.</div>
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Creating stuff with or alongside friends remains a constant.</div>
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They are sounding boards.</div>
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In psychoanalysis the wall was my sounding board.</div>
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I find myself enjoying writing this....</div>
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Perhaps for...</div>
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I find a subject to create....an object....an objective.</div>
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<i>#julydoodle</i></div>
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They were spent largely larking around with apps.</div>
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<b>Nothing more is to be done with them.</b></div>
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Barely afloat, drowning in an ocean of silence.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/the-list-europe-migrant-bodycount" target="_blank">34,361 and rising. </a><br />
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Missing Migrants: <a href="https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean" target="_blank">2,133 recorded deaths in Mediterranean in 2018.</a> <br />
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Barely, alive, freezing on a park bench.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/23/at-least-78-homeless-people-died-in-uk-over-winter-figures-reveal" target="_blank">At least 78 homeless people died in UK, figures reveal.</a><br />
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I know it when I feel it...<br />
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There is a starting point.<br />
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It isn't a photographic image.<br />
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More than an image there is an urge.<br />
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First strokes of a brush pen.<br />
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I am taken up, defined in a curve.<br />
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First angles, first volumes of the body.<br />
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Whose body?<br />
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Whose body will it be?<br />
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Verticality.<br />
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Crosshatching.<br />
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Lettering, familiar scribbled lettering.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;"><i>EXHAUSTED.</i></span><br />
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Change implement.<br />
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Where's that red BIC pen?<br />
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I need that red BIC pen.<br />
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I need it's cut into the paper.<br />
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I need it's disresepect.<br />
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I had some time, some peace, some desire.<br />
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<b>Going back to school.</b><br />
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I had been working on my drawing technique, academically, like I used to do at school.<br />
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I hated it.<br />
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There are moments when my soul erupts in revolt at constraints which I have accepted being imposed on myself.<br />
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There are moments when I feel the need to return to basics - "What the fuck is perspective?"<br />
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Oh that loaded word "ARTIST".<br />
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Oh I hate labels: writer, artist, academic, researcher, all that malarkey.<br />
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We are all imposters.<br />
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I feel reassured learning more about the voices of artists behind their work.<br />
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Picasso that archetype who would altenate between "studies" - careful "drawing" and apparent flourishes of revolt.<br />
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The artist was inseparable from the man, the lover, the refugee.<br />
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A man who at times fell into despair when thinking of the appearance of photography.<br />
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What should an artist do when faced with "photorealism"?<br />
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<i>"I might as well kill myself"... </i>he thought.<br />
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<i>"Picasso decided to paint what he felt not what he saw."</i><br />
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<b>Flashmobbing...</b><br />
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So I am tagging along with <i style="font-weight: bold;">INKTOBER...</i><br />
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Who are the artists, hobbyists, inconnus in <b><i>INKTOBER</i></b> inseparable from?<br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">DISMALAND INSTAGRAM? </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">DISMALAND TWITTER? </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">DISMALAND FACEBOOK?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">What the hell am I doing here?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">What the hell are we doing here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I can only speak for myself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I have enough context of my own without questioning that of others....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Stop asking too many questions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Do it, fuck it, do it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Do it if you feel it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am accepting the constraint, the weird prompts, the challenge, pushing myself to submit to the crowd.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I want to find out where it will take me, what I will learn along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Writing here, now, is my way of finding my way, of reflecting on the task in hand.</span><br />
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I can feel that crowd, that mob excitement, hysteria violence even in<b><i> INKTOBER.</i></b><br />
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Doing <i><b>"INKTOBER"</b></i> I feel distracted and perturbed by the stream upon stream of cartoon monsters.<br />
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I feel alienation from fucking venomous superheroes, fantasy novella charicatures, Disney fairies, princesses, princes.<br />
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I look at the profiles, hobbyist, artist, please DM for commissions.<br />
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I wonder at times what the fuck <i><b>INKTOBER</b></i> means?<br />
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What does it mean to me?<br />
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What does any flashmob drawn together mean?<br />
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What does it matter?<br />
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It doesn't matter.<br />
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Do it, fuck it, do it.<br />
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Is it a community, a souk, a gallery, a supermarket, a trading floor, a show?<br />
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Yes, all of that.<br />
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Do I feel alone together?<br />
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I feel at times that I am in Mangaland, Mangledland, Dismaland perhaps?<br />
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<b>Dismaland...</b><br />
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I was reading yesterday about Banksy's Dismaland.<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/20/banksy-dismaland-amusements-anarchism-weston-super-mare" target="_blank"><i>"Banksy's Dismaland: amusements and anarchism in artist's biggest project yet."</i></a><br />
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Well actually I was reading about his pièce de résistance (really?) the shredded balloon girl.<br />
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Good old Banksy, apparently he's added 50% of value to his shredded and signed screen print.<br />
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He's even been tagging on to a Basquiat exhibition.<br />
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Basquiat's value is ballooned with rarity as a member of the <b>27 CLUB.</b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></b>
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/27-club-celebrities-musicians-died-27-years-old-2017-9" target="_blank">TWELVE GREAT ARTISTS WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY SEVEN</a></span></i></b><br />
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Banksy is already too old, too knowing for that.<br />
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<b>BRITART.</b><br />
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I have been studying artland these past few days....<br />
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There was Damien Hirst laughing all the way to the bank...the richest living "artist".<br />
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Sharks in suits, sharks in formaldelhyde, cows and calves cut in two with chain saws.<br />
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Jewelled skulls, subcontracted spot paintings.<br />
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Then there was Francis Bacon and his abattoir art.<br />
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Abused, deranged, skin canvas scarred with life.<br />
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He had skin in the game, and blood on his hands.<br />
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<b>The lunatics have escaped the asylum....</b><br />
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Art is an asylum, it appears....<br />
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I watched a great documentary about "Outsider Artists".<br />
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And I think to myself, that art or this stuff here is indeed an asylum, a means of escape, or is it the only real way not to escape?<br />
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And I think about the self-promotional reputational economy in academia, in artland, in celebrity land, or in sham-democracyland.<br />
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I feel a desperate need to find escape or at least to protest.<br />
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I suppose whatever the motivation behind the lines, between the lies, behind the dollar signs, behind the hashtags, behind the crosshatching, there is something innately moving about this human need for scratching out an existence thus...<br />
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We are caught quaking between light and darkness, finding shading between sense and nonsense.<br />
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How shall we flesh out our bare bones?<br />
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Who will choose which marks of ours live on?<br />
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Who the fuck cares?<br />
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We all end up in shreds.<br />
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sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-34752177392672424162018-09-14T06:57:00.000-07:002019-04-08T00:32:46.460-07:00This is water...<br />
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I had almost forgotten.<br />
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There is an invisible barrier on my paper.<br />
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Water follows existing water paths, then it stops.<br />
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It avoids blank paper on my pad.<br />
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Once the flood gates are breached, it flows down or across the page.<br />
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OK... that's with a bit of cheating.<br />
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I turned the page around from portrait to landscape.<br />
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For water only flows down.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This is water....what does water know?</span><br />
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<b>Water instruments and flow....</b><br />
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I am using a paintbrush with integrated water reservoir. <br />
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Without dabbing my brush into a source of water, I can adjust the flow on the page until the sodden paper starts to ripple.<br />
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I love that ripple effect.<br />
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Intensity of pigment collects in droplets.<br />
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I am reminded of building sandcastles and walls on the beach.<br />
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I am fascinated by the path of the sea flow.<br />
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I can watch for hours as the grains escape, the walls suddenly collapse...<br />
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I try mixing water-colour on the paper with digital brush work or digital filters.<br />
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I try superimposing images, tweaking the colours.<br />
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It never reaches that joy of water flow.<br />
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<b>Rainy days...</b><br />
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I can remember hours spent gazing at raindrops collected on a pane.<br />
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I am waiting for the moment of critical mass when gravity tips their path downwards.<br />
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I start over-loading the sketch-book page, ripping off surfaces of paper.<br />
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This is not really an aesthetic.<br />
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It is only really an act of wanton vandalism.<br />
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There is pleasure in destruction.<br />
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Paper waves break on the beach as surface layers are scuffed.<br />
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I am getting that feeling of child-time.<br />
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Child-time when minutes feel like days, weeks even.<br />
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I am feeling at peace with myself with the water.<br />
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Contented.<br />
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<b>Finding ways to escape...</b><br />
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Sometimes it takes a few drawings from photos to open up worlds of imagination.<br />
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It's the gestures of approximating, of portraying of flicking ink up and down or around that releases me.<br />
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Capturing a photo....who is captured?<br />
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I have taken to ignoring pencil work.<br />
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Ink prevents me from fussing, from erasing, from correcting.<br />
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A line remains a line...one adapts to one's faulty lines....wrinkles...in time.<br />
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<b>Lazyness.</b><br />
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My natural lazyness demands short-cuts.<br />
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Black, more black with my ink pen.<br />
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Why bother wasting the ink?<br />
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I go and stick the drawing in Bazaart and get instant black!<br />
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Black is black as they say....<br />
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I know that is a lie.<br />
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But it will do for now.<br />
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I am back in those caves in Yorkshire, squeezing through cracks, getting soaked.<br />
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I love trying to find the points of pressure against the rock.<br />
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Ink gives way to water colour strokes, to blotting with kitchen roll.<br />
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No time to be finnickety, a rough sketch.<br />
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I hate it when it becomes fussy.<br />
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Then my mind's eye imagines stalagmites.</div>
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Stalagmites that dance in the darkness.</div>
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As mentionned before, I have been tagging along with Connected Learning MOOC, and their daily doodling prompts, </div>
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Susan Watson, the artist of the second image above is one of the leading co-learners and facilitators. </div>
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Without her and other key people (who and what is key fluctuates), who participate in different online spaces at different rhythms, with different objectives, and different perspectives, I wouldn't be learning what I am learning at the moment. </div>
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There are moments of distance from what others are doing, of apparent disconnection, of fatigue, demoralisation, boredom and then quite unpredictably moments of rapid progress.</div>
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Given sufficient motivation, drive, urgency, given people around you to learn with, to support and encourage, given sufficient time invested in failing, failing, failing better, you suddenly realise that you are in a different place altogether. </div>
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Over the past few days, I have gradually been discovering new perspectives. </div>
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I had noticed a post of Susan's on Facebook which mentionned the word "perspective."</div>
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<span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Am not sure what part me seeing your work with Perspective has inspired me to go back to basics which I never worked at </span><span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">🙂</span></span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Thank you"</span></div>
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I had also started following artists on Instagram to alter my attention feed.</div>
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I feel myself impressed by their photorealistic productions but left cold.</div>
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Both of us are at a point where we are looking to go beyond what comes easily.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this is how connected learning works <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">🙂</span></span> Started looking at online resources. Find this guy very clear </span><a class="" data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FLighterNoteProd&h=AT3z0lwKphN3ooc0ycdb74Er-ECu4f9Whjj05Dd5cPNLYxbR7RTdwR6Vyw0C_PMHYHe-LUfmYBhUFLTXn6p8nN9M47onN0EYu7oHgcC3f61-ugwDy_2TuBmOg2q_7FUbYA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/LighterNoteProd" original_target="https://www.youtube.com/user/lighternoteprod" rel="nofollow noopener" saprocessedanchor="true" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/LighterNoteProd</a></div>
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The rest of school was often times: do the exercise, do the test, do the exam...for marks.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">"Do we need to bow down to peer reviewed and anointed experts, or search...for personal perspectives...for recognisable wisdom?"</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">From Twitter's, Instagram's/Facebook's/Google's business perspective model the quality of the content is secondary to the capture of attention...and the cash that comes from it.</span></div>
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What is an academic voice? <a href="https://t.co/fYUAVf8CN9">https://t.co/fYUAVf8CN9</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clmooc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#clmooc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/digped?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#digped</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/lthechat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#lthechat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sensor63?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sensor63</a></div>
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Quite! Stick to your guns. Use their voices as data to analyse, as part of process. This is exactly how I would write thesis. If you don’t challenge « objective » « academic voice » you may as well accept you are just another brick in their bloody wall...</div>
— Simon Ensor (@sensor63) <a href="https://twitter.com/sensor63/status/1030862069611069443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Alternatively accept it’s (also) a bureaucratic passport to an academic status and do what they tell you. Your story reminds me of my friend and colleague Rosemary who did thesis on paganism.</div>
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I've never been very good at doing what I am told</div>
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Inadapted to slavery or military.</div>
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I was thinking about Nick as I was writing. Coz, you know, I don't think what I am wanting to do is as big a step as his was, but apparently others see it as a digression</div>
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The fact that Nick's wonderful, ground-breaking thesis, "Unflattering" was drawn connects here...<br />
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A look at Nick's technical brilliance in "Unflattering" is a tribute to time, attention, talent, independent research and personal inspiration.<br />
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No slavish, soulless academic pandering there.<br />
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The human shines out.<br />
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<b>All that jazz...</b></div>
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So the prompt from the daily doodle was "jazz". </div>
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Jazz is the name of our dog.</div>
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I didn't feel any inspiration to start drawing a dog...again.</div>
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I was much too much taken up with failing to draw rectangles - boxes, cupboards, trunks, boxes, televisions, tables, boxes, et al in perspective.</div>
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<b>BOXES, BOXES, BOXES...!</b></div>
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I worked and worked at finding the right angles, the right lines.</div>
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Jazz requires work... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/augustdoodle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#augustdoodle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clmooc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#clmooc</a> <a href="https://t.co/DCuSj3p8RW">pic.twitter.com/DCuSj3p8RW</a></div>
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<b>Jazz, Prog Rock, and Punk</b></div>
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The thought of jazz made me curious about the music.<br />
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For many listeners jazz can sound strange, improvisations, dischords may challenge.<br />
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For other listeners, jazz can sound academic, intellectual, opaque.<br />
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Being of that generation in the late seventies, I remember Emerson Lake and Palmer.<br />
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I have to admit to having bought records of "prog-rock" - hours of twiddling, pomp, and pretention.<br />
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Camel, Yes (oh no), Genesis, (at its worst), Rick Wakemen and his seven wives...and seventy keyboards.<br />
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I thought about the extraordinary technique behind the best playing of jazz, progressive rock.<br />
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Hour upon hour of practice.<br />
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<b>THEN THERE WAS PUNK and TWO TONE.</b><br />
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In an instant, the twiddling and twaddling, hobbits and fairies gave way to ...<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">ANARCHY </span>and <span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-large;">GHOST TOWN.</span><br />
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<b>BUT THEN THERE HAD BEEN JAZZ.</b><br />
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I went and found some information about the history of jazz and found an article:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Jazz is a sponge for outside sounds. Add another idea to it — say, European classical or gospel-inflected R&B music — and it absorbs, assimilating the sound into a new subgenre: like "third stream" or "soul jazz," respectively. Wring it out, and its own improvisatory essence remains in the mix.</i></span></div>
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<b>Jazz and Basquiat...</b><br />
<b><br /></b>I find myself thinking back to my Facebook conversation with Susan.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jazz impro without technique very limited </span><span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">🙂</span></span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Contrasting Punk and Classical/Academic. Basquiat and Rembrandt </span><span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f4c/1/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">🙂</span></span><br />
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I went and did a bit of research into Basquiat.<br />
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At first sight, there doesn't seem too much connection between his work and jazz.<br />
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I would have thought about hip hop, street influences...<br />
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Like the succession of boxes, I will come back and study my scribbling here with new eyes.<br />
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I have already come back and cut and edited a bit.<br />
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We are constantly redrawing our lines.</div>
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I won't try to hide it.</div>
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I always preferred annotated artist's sketch books to uncontextualised finished "masterpieces" floating on a gallery wall.</div>
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This year in CLMOOC (Connected Learning MOOC) I have been tagging along with the doodling in July and August.<br />
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What I like about it is the low stress challenge of regularly creating some sort of artistic image which is shared with others in the community.<br />
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In past editions I have taken time to explore digital image manipulation applications or digital drawing/painting applications.<br />
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This year I started concentrating on finding the limits of what I could draw with my fingers on an iPhone and then playing digitally with resulting output.<br />
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Generally speaking such "creations" are very fast. A few seconds or a few minutes of scribbling on a screen and then I share.<br />
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<b>Speed in a sense was of essence...</b><br />
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Then I got fed up with the facility of it all.<br />
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If, actually drawing on a small screen with a finger isn't that easy - it's fiddly, it's quick to get effect.<br />
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I got fed up of fiddling and then swiping and clicking.<br />
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If "connected", it felt like I was disconnected from the world around.<br />
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Is that what being in jail feels...I wonder.<br />
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<b>Are we being fiddled for effect?</b><br />
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Quick sale...long retraction...<br />
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<b>Clearing out the cellar</b><br />
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We were clearing out the cellar.<br />
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I came across an old artist's box which was falling to bits and covered with dust. I repaired it's warped veneer, sharpened a couple of ancient pencils, tried to soften up the paint brushes, inspected the pastels, looked wistfully at the child's watercolor set and sat down in the garden to draw a vine.<br />
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That vine attracted me on a number of levels: its form, its colour, its texture, its history, its rootedness.<br />
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<b>A vine branches wildly.</b><br />
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I got taken up in the intricacy of the vine's winding, I found myself drawing and redrawing its elipses, eyeing up its angles, and got altogether wound up in how the vine had grown.<br />
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It doesn't look much of a drawing but I spent a fair old time in communion with that familiar yet unfamiliar plant.<br />
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I could have photographed it in an instant and ignored it.<br />
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I would have had no relationship with it to talk about.<br />
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I realise what I have been missing in recent times.<br />
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I had serious longterm relationships with trees, rocks and mountains.<br />
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I would lose myself exploring their textures with my fingers.<br />
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We had history.<br />
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<b>That beaten up artist's box...</b><br />
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I would lose myself for hours drawing on scraps of paper, smudging the charcoal, the pastels, the pencil shading.<br />
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Art, I feel, is an intimate relationship with one's surroundings, with one's fellow beings.<br />
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<b>Finally it's only when one really loses oneself a good while that one may find oneself.</b><br />
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I came back and redrew the shape of the trunk (does one say trunk for a vine?) out of pleasure for its form.<br />
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I came back and started a close study of its offshoots, its cracks, its cut and tutored branches.<br />
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After a few minutes the heat of the sun forced me to seek shade.<br />
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<b>Sun-lounger, feeling the heat...</b><br />
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I turned my attention to a turquoise cushion and orange towel on a sun lounger.<br />
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It was the colour which got me, the colour and the light, then the cushioning.<br />
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The child's watercolour set was set awash with wet brush.<br />
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I rediscovered the care one must take with the flow of water, gravity, pigment intensity.<br />
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I rediscovered the joy of scribble, shade, smudge, time, taking time.<br />
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Whilst the digital gives me rapid effect, the old artist's box brings me affect.<br />
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I feel my breath, a little breeze behind me and I pause for thought.<br />
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Touched by vines, cushions, sun on my back, my daughter sitting over there on a sofa, I am given time to contemplate....<br />
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<b>From clicks to contemplation.</b><br />
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Reflecting on < What "decolonised education" should and shouldn't mean < and could mean. <a href="https://twitter.com/14prinsp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@14prinsp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bali_Maha</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mosallah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mosallah</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sharmashyam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sharmashyam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/santoshbidari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@santoshbidari</a> <a href="https://t.co/twEKl03cyt">https://t.co/twEKl03cyt</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/TC_Africa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TC_Africa</a></div>
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Absolutely! You can dance very fast on the head of a pin & maybe hold the line but leadership has 2 B willing 2 make structural changes that R proactive & take back the line.</div>
— Diem Lafortune Cree Treaty 6 (@DMLafortune) <a href="https://twitter.com/DMLafortune/status/1028730520991985665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I always think of Audre Lorde's quote about how you can never use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.<br />
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But it would also be stupid not to use those tools if useful <br />
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BUT we do ourselves a disservice if we let those tools/knowledge blind us to our own capacity...</div>
— ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌷 (@Bali_Maha) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha/status/1028690107644227585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The issue w current hegemonic knowledge is that it renders the knowledge and epistemologies of others invalid or less credible.<br />
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So a decolonizing approach is needed to challenge that and break free from view of postcolonial person as less intelligent, less able to think/create</div>
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What constitutes hegemony in « hegemonic » knowledge? What constitutes validation? Who validates? Who gives credence?</div>
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That isn't a rhetorical question, we know who has been defining knowledge and erasing or demeaning other knowledges</div>
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<b>SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM</b></div>
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I am working on finding my path through a page to freedom.<br />
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<b>SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM</b><br />
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HELPLESS?<br />
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE?<br />
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<b>CAPTURE DEFINES ACTION.</b><br />
<b>HUNGER DEFINES ACTION.</b><br />
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<i>"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends."</i><br />
<i>Martin Luther King</i><br />
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<b>EDUCATION? WHAT EDUCATION?</b><br />
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EDUCATION MAY DEFY INACTION.<br />
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LINES OF FLIGHT STUCK TO FLY PAPER?<br />
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CAPTURED IN LIGHT?<br />
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FLIGHT? LIGHT CONSUMED? FUTILE CONSUMERS ALL!<br />
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EDUCATION WHAT EDUCATION?<br />
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<b>SCREEN CAPTURES FREEDOM TO QUESTION.</b><br />
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KNOWLEDGE OF HUNGER DEFINES ACTION.<br />
KNOWLEDGE OF INACTION DEFINES HUNGER.<br />
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<b>SCREEN RAPTURE DEFINES ACTION</b><br />
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We can do something rather than nothing. <a href="https://t.co/bZluUdMOcz">https://t.co/bZluUdMOcz</a> I am seeing what I can do with <a href="https://twitter.com/santoshbidari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@santoshbidari</a> First was to connect <a href="https://t.co/Y7VRhHXHez">https://t.co/Y7VRhHXHez</a> to work in Nepal. Next skill share and financial help.</div>
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<b>LINES OF FLIGHT STUCK TO FLY PAPER</b><br />
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What will they be when we are all stuck?<br />
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They will be stuck.<br />
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They will be struck down long before.<br />
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<b>SCREEN CAPTURE </b><br />
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<i><span class="text Exod-8-20" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">20 </span>Then the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1731AO" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1731AO" title="See cross-reference AO">AO</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the <span class="small-caps" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> says: Let my people go, so that they may worship<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1731AP" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1731AP" title="See cross-reference AP">AP</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> me.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text Exod-8-21" id="en-NIV-1732" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">21 </span>If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.</span></i><br />
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HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM.</b><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And the </span><span class="small-caps" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand</span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-1790DF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-1790DF" title="See cross-reference DF">DF</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”</span></i><br />
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BUZZ.<br />
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<b>AGAINST ODDS</b><br />
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BUZZ.<br />
BUZZ.<br />
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<b>SO COUNT, COUNT.</b><br />
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<b>HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM!</b><br />
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Against their odds.<br />
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<b>FAITH CONSUMED?</b><br />
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They would have us consumed.<br />
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They would have us consumed in their neon, their néant...<br />
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<b>HAVE FAITH! FAITH PLAGUES THEM!</b><br />
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They would have us dumb.<br />
They would have us meek.<br />
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<b>SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.</b><br />
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<b>EDUCATION? WHAT EDUCATION?</b><br />
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<b>ASH, DUST, DUSTED</b><br />
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So go on,<br />
COUNT<br />
COUNT.<br />
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SIRE, MY LORD, YER HONOUR.<br />
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<b>ASH, DUST, DUSTED</b><br />
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LET THEM LIE.<br />
LET THEM ROT.<br />
BE NOT AFRAID.<br />
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RESISTANCE IS FUTILE?<br />
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.<br />
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CONSUMED IN OUR PYRE.<br />
RIVER FLOWS, FLOWS IRK, FLOWS MIRK, FLOWS NOT.<br />
DESERTS US, JUST DESERTS, OUR DESERTS, THEIR DESERTS, JUST DESERTS.<br />
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Quite unmoved, cushion pile.</div>
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Quiet unmoved,</div>
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Moving still.</div>
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Quiet mind.</div>
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Quit minding.</div>
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Quiet mined.</div>
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Quiet mine.</div>
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Quiet mine.</div>
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Quiet mine.</div>
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Quietude.</div>
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He takes those books and throws them in the trunk.</div>
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In goes the family silver.</div>
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In goes the skeletons.</div>
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In goes those shrieks of pain.</div>
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In goes his monster frame.</div>
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In goes sanctimony.</div>
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In goes alimony.</div>
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In goes pedophilia, necrophilia, hymns and prayers.</div>
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Her black kohl eyes glare.</div>
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He takes those looks and throws them in the trunk.</div>
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<br />sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-32291850435525629902018-06-26T06:08:00.000-07:002018-06-26T06:53:31.910-07:00Community chest.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was thanks to Paul Prinsloo that I became familiar with the annotated image of the Monopoly board.<br />
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He used it in his brilliant presentation entitled:<br />
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<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/faculty-as-quantified-measured-and-tired-the-lure-of-the-red-shoes" target="_blank">Faculty as quantified, measured and tired: The lure of the red shoes.</a><br />
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<b>Quantified, measured and tired.</b><br />
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It is taking more energy than I feel that I have to type this here.<br />
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A pop up notification appears on my phone:<br />
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<i>"Congratulations: you have won an open badge for succesfully completing a course."</i><br />
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I feel no joy or achievement.<br />
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I feel only tired and demoralised.<br />
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I shan't ever wear those red shoes...<br />
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God be blessed (blasphemy). I suppose that is a mercy.<br />
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As a kid, I wasn't even seduced by brown shoes.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I count myself lucky to have shoes at all; others aren't so privileged.</span><br />
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<b>Open badges and closed borders.</b><br />
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Yesterday, I conducted an English exam for a student who needed some sort of grade, any sort of institutional credit, to avoid expulsion from the country.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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A survival badge.<br />
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He started his university career with minus ten years of study of English compared with the French students.<br />
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He started his university career with minus ten years of practice of computer skills.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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A survival badge.<br />
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<b>Community chest.</b><br />
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As I arrived at the university, I looked at the ongoing building work. It was for a spanking new research laboratory. The occupation of the ex-library, once a potential space for an open learning centre, is a concrete demonstration of the power structure within the institution.<br />
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We had imagined a new pedagogical space.<br />
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Hours and hours of time invested...in praxis.<br />
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Does praxis make perfect?<br />
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Poor naive souls...<br />
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Pedagogy comes way down the list in terms of institutional priorities.<br />
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"Pedagogical project" vs "Research lab"?<br />
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There was no contest.<br />
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Shattered dreams of open community learning....<br />
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I shall get that off my chest.<br />
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<b>Budget cuts...any budget cuts.</b><br />
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Rationalisation, financial control, personnel insecurity...personal strife.<br />
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I wrote about my time at Marylhurst: “As the financial woes of the institution mounted, the mistreatment of faculty, and especially adjunct faculty, increased ... Tears were not unusual at committee meetings.” <a href="https://t.co/wjp4SyggKO">https://t.co/wjp4SyggKO</a></div>
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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<b>Bored room meetings.</b><br />
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I met a couple of bored students waiting around for an exam.<br />
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What were they waiting for?<br />
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The opportunity to gain a bit of credit to move onto the next square in this ludicrous game.<br />
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They know that they are not invited to the main board table.<br />
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The real games go on in "Grandes Ecoles", then in board rooms, or amongst the bankers.<br />
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The real winners don't need "badges" like us, they employ people to sort out pesky legal problems.<br />
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The real winners don't need to write blogs, they don't give a fuck about that, they own the platforms.<br />
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The real winners don't play games, they don't take prisoners, they have no qualms, they are killers.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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<b>Not the banker?</b><br />
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I am a loser, I am not even winning at that.<br />
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I am a middling, meddling, signed up member of the mediocrity messing around in a sham meritocracy, piddling around in a sham democracy.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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The real losers, don't play games, they don't take prisoners, they have no qualms, they are killers.<br />
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Those real losers buy semi-automatic weapons from the real winners.<br />
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Oh, you can't blame the winners for over-estimating their importance.<br />
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Why be critical when you are winning the game?<br />
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You wouldn't want to question your good fortune for too long.<br />
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You're a great guy!<br />
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You're a tough guy!<br />
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You're a really mean guy!<br />
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Oh Bravo!<br />
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I listened to Piers Morgan speak on TV.<br />
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<b>The devil's apprentice.</b><br />
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Devil's apprentice winner, Piers likes the sound of his winning (whining) voice.<br />
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Great guy!<br />
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Listening to Piers Morgan speak on TV about winning the ratings battle, crushing the competitors to his girly eye-brow raising, colluding, co-presenters and I feel an urgent need to vomit, to take several showers.<br />
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Oh isn't he a naughty boy!<br />
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Piers sounds like a fucking loser to me.<br />
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The real winners don't need to present morning TV, they don't give a fuck about that, they own the platforms.<br />
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<b>Good morning Britain.</b><br />
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Good morning Vietnam.<br />
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Il est cinq heures, Paris se reveille...<br />
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On n' est pas couché...<br />
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Are you sure?<br />
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I am sure il a couché...ou elle.<br />
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<b>Red shoes, brown shoes? Brown shirts...</b><br />
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Another mediocre privileged protofascist populist on French TV, channeling Trump, channeling Farage, channeling Orban spitting out vile.<br />
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Debout la France!<br />
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I feel an urgent need to vomit, to take several showers.<br />
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The real winners don't care about divisions created as a result of the air-time given to these bastards on their fucking platforms.<br />
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Civil wars win ratings battles.<br />
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Give them blood.<br />
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They'll have the bullets.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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<b>Get out of jail! Free?</b><br />
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I wanted to be inspired by Sean Michael Morris's blog post that I read yesterday.<br />
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Reflecting on < Imagination as a Precision Tool for Change <a href="https://t.co/hhpPkD9WfK">https://t.co/hhpPkD9WfK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/slamteacher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@slamteacher</a></div>
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I read it.<br />
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I think of agency.<br />
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I feel tired, demoralised and measured in these words...<br />
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Oh agency...would that be like the drive for survival which brings people to get into boats to cross the Mediterrenean?<br />
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We need virtual exchanges to build up understanding between young people in Europe and those in the South Mediterrenean countries (Africa).<br />
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They say in the pamphlet.<br />
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<i>"Congratulations, you have won an open badge for successfully completing a course."</i><br />
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Oh fuck, I am oh so so happy.<br />
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I am so fucking content with my badge.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/imagination-as-a-precision-tool-for-change/" target="_blank">Imagination as a precision tool for change.</a></b><br />
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I feel tired, demoralised and measured in these words...<br />
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How the fuck can I, white, bi-national shoe-wearing member of the mediocrity, imagine the lives of those risking their lives to cross the sea with their kids to come to France?<br />
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What did my imagination ever do to really change fuck?<br />
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<b>Imagination, precision tool for change</b>...my arse.<br />
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[I measure my words, I regret the tone, I regret the potential upset caused, I so want to be cheered, to cheer the work of those who I respect, I want to encourage, to feel encouraged, and the only words I can find to write are 'my arse'. I so wish I could steal the words of others, Freire, hooks, whoever, to feel better.]<br />
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I am sorry.<br />
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<b>Open badges and closed borders.</b><br />
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I reread a paragraph about plagiarism.<br />
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What the hell is Turnitin?<br />
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I claim ignorance.<br />
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I read it and it sounds like some drug sold by Pfizer.<br />
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Can ignorance enable agency?<br />
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I feel myself writing words that I will only regret.<br />
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I am sorry.<br />
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The paragraph reminds me of the "exam" earlier in the week.<br />
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I had to explain the concept of "plagiarism" to the "candidate."<br />
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He had no English words of his own.<br />
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He was desperate to avoid expulsion.<br />
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He stole the words of others.<br />
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I begin to feel more like a border control officer than a teacher.<br />
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I find a space in the marking grid for him to express his plight in one of the five languages he masters.<br />
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Four of the languages, he points out, are not much use outside of his country.<br />
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English, he says is essential to him...to work in...management.<br />
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I hear the protofascist on TV whining on about France being colonised by African migrants.<br />
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I feel an urgent need to vomit, to take several showers.<br />
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I go back and reread Sean Michael Morris's:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">Is critical pedagogy aligned with the interests of the academy? In an ivory tower increasingly interested in credentialing as currency, competitive completion rates, models of efficiency that have given rise to online program management companies, the outsourcing of pedagogy to Pearson and Turnitin, are we confronting a reality where “Dreams are caught in the meshes of the saleable; possession of consumer goods is the alternative to gloom or feelings of pointlessness. Ideas of possibilities are trapped in predictability”? (“Art and Imagination” 124)"</span></i></span><br />
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However you turn it, in this occupied territory, the answer to Sean's question is:<br />
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I go back and read Sean's last paragraph.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3a4145; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some things cannot be reasoned, yes.</span></span><br />
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I don't need to go seeking bloody monsters.<br />
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Does one really need imagination to see monsters?<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">NO</span><br />
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One does need imagination to survive these monstrous times.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">GO directly to jail.</span><br />
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ZZZ, ZZZ,</div>
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Bzzt, bzzt, bzzzt.</div>
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Sh, shh, shhh, </div>
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Zzz, zzz, zzz, </div>
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Bzzt, bzzt, bzzzt.</div>
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Shh, Pff, grr, grrl, grrrl.</div>
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Brr, brrr, brrr,</div>
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Pff, grr, grrl, grrrl, nth.</div>
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Whrr, whrr, whrrr,</div>
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Hrm, hmm, hrm, hmm,</div>
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Hrm, hmm, hrm, hmm.</div>
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Pst, psst, pssst...</div>
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Sss, sss, ssss,</div>
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Mmm, mmm, mmm,</div>
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St.</div>
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Tsk, tsk.</div>
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Grr, grrl, grrrl, nth.</div>
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Pff.</div>
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PWN.</div>
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<br />sensor63http://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194534881328954061.post-81109957911094737372018-06-13T09:50:00.000-07:002019-04-08T00:47:17.694-07:00Coming full circle...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the feeling that I wanted to write something. </div>
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I had no idea what. </div>
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Not having any idea or any sentence which came to mind, </div>
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I sat and waited and waited...</div>
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Eventually, I settled for one word:</div>
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<b>FALLING</b></div>
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Well frankly it wasn't much to go with. So I waited. I felt<i> "falling" </i>and it brought up <i>"gravity"</i>...<i>"my gravity"</i>. I had found my <i>"baseline"</i>, I had written <i>"baseline"</i> with a full stop. </div>
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<i>"Why bother with "baseline?"</i> I thought.</div>
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<i>"Full stop will do."</i> </div>
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<i>"It has finality, it has an ending, a succinct landing."</i> I settled the internal debate.</div>
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How long did it take?</div>
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I have no idea.</div>
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By the time that I had got to reflecting on <i>"gravity"</i> and its appropriate punctuation I had lost all sense of time.</div>
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I was engrossed.</div>
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I like playing with punctuation.</div>
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<i>"Aller à la ligne."</i></div>
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<i>"Well for hell's sake why not?"</i> I thought,<i> "So what if it is French?" "If people don't understand..."</i></div>
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Well frankly I didn't understand what I was writing about...as often.</div>
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I trust myself to trust whatever comes out...when I am engrossed.</div>
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That is rather the point of it.</div>
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<b>Playing.</b></div>
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Nothing more or less.</div>
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I mix French and English all the bloody time.</div>
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I decide to ignore linguistic boundaries which are fuzzy a lot of the time.</div>
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Whatever comes out wins the fight for exposure.</div>
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<i>"Aller à la ligne".</i></div>
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I had dropped as far as I could. </div>
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I get a clear sense of verticality, of <i>"gravity."</i></div>
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I start traversing from my original ledge: <i>"Falling".</i></div>
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One can only fall so far...</div>
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I build horizontally using "ing" and two syllables words beginning with f.</div>
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I don't judge what I am doing.</div>
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Whatever I am doing, I claim diminshed responsibility.</div>
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Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be.</div>
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<b>AMOR FATI.</b></div>
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I stretch out: "<i>falling, feeling..."</i></div>
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<i>"flailing"</i> I don't like the sound of that, it just doesn't sound or feel appropriate here.</div>
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I reject "flailing".</div>
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I accept <i>"failing", </i>but rather<i> "failing" </i>as in the sense of <i>"failing light".</i></div>
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<i>"People can read what they like..</i>" I reason.</div>
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<b>I end up with <i>"falling, feeling, failing"</i> and wait and wait...</b></div>
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Next, the word <i>"fleeting"</i> insists inclusion,<i> </i>mainly, I think, because I love the sound.</div>
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I love its dissonance, <i>"fleeting"</i> it shall be an unusual verb, so what? </div>
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A mortal combat: adjective vs verb.</div>
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<i>"Ha ha, ha, ha."</i></div>
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<b>It is <i>"fleeting"</i> therefore I am...</b></div>
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I is not it, but it entails me. </div>
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Whatever that may mean....pretension, pretention, oh whatever.</div>
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Who cares?</div>
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So I have some sort of vertical and horizontal and sonorous and dynamic (are those words) structure.</div>
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As often, it is loosely hanging together, fighting to get off the page.</div>
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Even if a word is unknown to me, or <i>"incorrect"</i>, if a sound comes to me then it gets roped into action.</div>
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What the hell! Take all prisoners!</div>
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<b>Legerté.</b></div>
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<i>"Legerté" </i>acts as counterpoint to<i> </i> <i>"my gravity".</i></div>
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I am both light and heavy, in this writing exercise (if that is what it is).</div>
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I can feel lightness and weight, or wait pulling me downwards towards a conclusion of sorts...or a decision to erase all...</div>
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I play with French and English, what if <i>"legerté"</i> exists as <i>"legerty"</i> in English? I wonder.</div>
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I go off and find a dictionary.</div>
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<b>Legerity.</b></div>
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Lovely word, unknown to me until then.</div>
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I go off and investigate.</div>
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I come back.</div>
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<b>Now things get really strange.</b></div>
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I had a series of lines starting with A: </div>
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The series of A plus two syllables suddenly recalls, plucks from the depths of my memory:</div>
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<b>A Tasket.</b></div>
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Ella Fitzgerald.</div>
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I must have heard this before.</div>
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I have no memory whatsoever of it.</div>
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I enjoy these surprise appearances.</div>
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I particulary enjoy the play with nonsense words.</div>
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How often do we try desperately to make sense and end up making nonsense?</div>
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<b>A tisket and A tasket are central to what this piece conveys.</b></div>
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It is less in the words than in the gestures, in the pauses, in the sudden jumps, the odd juxtapositions.</div>
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More sounds pop out, this time a rebuke, ironic here: "<i>Tsk Tsk"</i>(I should not be doing this, I should be doing something 'serious'.)</div>
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I immediately love the expression for its refusal to include any vowel.</div>
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<b>Tsk and Pff and Zzzz marvellous subversions.</b></div>
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So I go and investigate <i>"A Tisket A Tasket".</i></div>
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The idea of this nonsense expression <i>"A tisket A tasket" </i>journeying from children's play to Ella Fitzgerald to Eminem, is for me in itself glorious.</div>
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His joyful stealing and remixing and goading of sacred American idols is infectious.</div>
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<b><i>"Tâtonner"</i> groping away in the dark.</b></div>
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I could happily put circumflexs everywhere for the hell of it.</div>
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The ton, the ton, becomes an uncle, maybe Mitterand,<i> "Ton Ton"</i>, for the hell of it.</div>
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The sound ton, goes from <i>"tâtonner, to étonnement, to tonnement, to Ton Ton, to tonnère.</i>" for the hell of it.</div>
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Just the sound, that is the meaning, sound for itself, any other meaning is incidental.</div>
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Why not?</div>
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Letting go, being at peace, being animal, being part of all.</div>
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Numbers pulse my hesitation, a silence , to celebrate the slowness of my breath.</div>
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Respiration, relaxation, letting go, mediation, meditation, emptyness, peace.</div>
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I let others deal with my expression of fear on arriving at a full stop.</div>
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Is it my fear, or their fear?</div>
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I didn't bother to scrutinise it, or to inspect it carefully.</div>
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It comes back into use.</div>
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Then I see what the image was.</div>
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He is both their prey and they his prey.</div>
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