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Memory in the World: "A room, a room / a rouse, a rouse..."
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Walking Poems

Poems while walking, generally written on a mobile phone. They tend to be about present experience, usually in motion. For example

Eyes on the road say
Here's a puddle;
Mind, deep in thought,
Listens too late.

 

Articles
Title
Walking Poem 2017-03-13: Time and weather strip the purple lustre from his wings
Walking Poem 2017-02-22: Although it has been a while since I walked this path, earlier this winter
Walking Poem 2017-01-23: Wet clay galoshes build up around my boots
Walking Poem 2017-01-23: Our local wild geese Overwinter
Walking Poem 2017-01-17: The steady rain
Walking Poem 2017-01-13: Winter
Walking Poem 2016-12-07: "Everyday Prayers"
Walking Poem 2016-12-05: The sky from above says freeze
Walking Poem 2016-11-21: My most inoffensive trudge up the frost and wet leaves
Walking Poem 2016-11-18: I weep suddenly for this melting frost on grass

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“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)