Covid-19 reading list for activists and the politically engaged
A lot of people have already written a lot of interesting responses to the Covid-19 situation, including a lot of people predicting what will come next. It can be overwhelming trying to keep up with the sudden total focus of thinkers on a single issues (this is part...
The Sea, The Sea
After lunch I cut off a length of my rope and tied it onto the iron banister at the tower steps, and now it trails handily into the sea, moving darkened in the waves. I have knotted the seaward end for easier grasp. I have had less success with the ‘cliff’ for the...
The Pandemic is a Portal
Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the...
we all out here
With title and inspiration from the excellent We Out Here compilation this is straight out the best jazz compilation you’ll hear for our times. Oh, and it changes every day!
Landmarks
Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...