Memory in the World/Room
Memory in the World: "A room, a room / a rouse, a rouse..."
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Sounds of Protest and Affirmation

Recorded live in London during the People's Vote march on Saturday October 19, 2019.

Sounds of Harvest, 2019

Recorded live on August 26, 2019, between 8:09 and 8:36 p.m. On the bridge, and from a neighbouring field.

Sounds of the flood, November 2019

 Recorded live at the bridge and the adjoining horse paddock on November 14, 2019, between 12.10 and 12.20

Sounds of celebration in a pandemic

“Bearing other people's vulnerability - which means sharing in it imaginatively and practically without needing to get rid of it, to yank people out of it - entails being able to bear one's own." - Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, On Kindness

Notebooks

  • Litter Picking
  • Savouring the Stone: The Church is a Mountain, the Church is a Mountain Stream
  • Inscribed church
  • Archives are Personal

Groundworks

  • Groundworking: Notes and Working Sources

Latest Additions

  • 2024 "Foreword" to “The Village That Once Was Our World”, by William Eiduks and Leonard Clarke, narratives compiled by Carolyn L. Mears, PhD.
  • The music of winter (28/12/2025)
  • exploding love of many (14/11/2025)
  • 1967: "Letters to Times: Youth Replies", CONTRA COSTA TIMES, April 9, 1987, p. 26
  • test (don't try this at home)

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"My encounter with the room is not such that I first take in one thing after another and put together a manifold of things in order to then see a room. Rather, I primarily see a referential whole..." (Martin Heidegger)