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To Cook, To Write, To Control
Jane Kramer The Reporter’s Kitchen The cooking that helps my writing is slow cooking, the kind of cooking where you take control of your ingredients so that whatever it is you’re making doesn’t run away with you, the way words … Continue reading
Bundle Magic
I have thought about the similarities of carrying a bundle and having ready-at-hand a smartphone. Both are portable and both offer access to a phenomenological experience that lifts one out of the now into a future-to-be-built-on-the-past. As Beth Cuthand says … Continue reading
How Like
A bundle and its medicines resembles a smartphone and its collection of apps. The comparison points to revitalization of Indigenous cultures. The bundle’s homecoming and first ceremonial opening since 1942 is being witnessed by 200 people, Blackfoot from Alberta and … Continue reading
Repurposing Rites
There is a certain thrill in hollowing out a framework and replacing its content. The form serves another purpose. Take for instance the six rights regarding the administration of medication which can be adopted and generalized to communication situations. (http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/pedagogy/sixrights.htm). … Continue reading
Treading Stupidity
Charlotte Shane. “Anne Carson’s Splintered Brilliance: On the pleasures of poetry that deliberately defies our comprehension”. New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/139103/anne-carsons-splintered-brilliance Calling one’s self “stupid” is akin to saying “my mind doesn’t work like that.” It’s a way of recognizing the distance … Continue reading
tools bodies cities
Opening of William Gibson “Metrophagy: the Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities” collected in Distrust That Particular Flavor and first appeared as as a review of London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd in The Whole Earth Catalog Summer 2001. … Continue reading
To Take the Trouble
Elizabeth David on taking the trouble (from A Book of Mediterranean Food), trouble with food and trouble as applied (by the reviewer and list complier) to writing: Finally, all her work expresses a credo about cooking that, with equal justice, … Continue reading
Mud Pies
To engrave. To translate. To make mud pies. As engraving to the great art of painting, so is translation to the great art of poetry; and, like the great arts, it is itself an act of creation. And here lies … Continue reading
Abridgement
In my reading of Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh I was struck by the amount of space devoted to the demise of Alan Turing — his persecution & suicide — until later in the book I encountered a similar treatment … Continue reading