Tag: edges

• A sorry sight?

  I am fascinated by liminality, intrigued by areas that exist on the edge of things, or in the space between them. I’m not sure when it all started, or why it has had such a hold on my imagination -but there you have it. Not everything has an owner, or for that matter even a […]

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  January 19, 2022

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  boundaries, collectivism, edges, Gunter Nitschke, Haiku, Kyoto Journal, liminality, ma, Matsuo Basho, philosophy, spaces, things

• Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow

  Colour has always held me in thrall. I suspect I can trace its origins to those pre-recollection times when my mother read to me as I sat pointing at pictures in whatever book she had chosen for my bedtime. I had my favourites, I imagine, but all I can remember from those very early years […]

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  February 16, 2021

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  Age, art, boundaries, classical art, colour, colouring, colouring books, crayons, edges, Harvard University, Katherine J. Wu, museums, New York Academy of Medicine Library, Smithsonian Magazine, synaesthesia

• Fake lies?

  Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about truth, but not for the reasons you might expect. Not because of the abundance of ‘fake news’ about which we seem to be constantly reminded, and not necessarily because I’ve been occasionally embarrassed in a lie, nor because of the tangled web you wove when first you practiced […]

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  January 6, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Albert Camus, assertions, authorial authority, boundary markers, David Hume, deception, edges, Emar Maier, ethics, Fake news, fiction, George Orwell, H.P. Grice, imagination, imaginative resistance, lies, literary fiction, literature, Plato, reportage, Sir Philip Sidney, speech acts, the paradox of fiction, trespassing, Truth, University of Groningen

• We will build a wall…

  It’s humbling to realize that, despite my age, there are still some things I’ve never heard of. Or, is it because of my age…? I suppose I could be forgiven for being unaware –I almost said uninterested– in things that trend nowadays, the inference being that, lacking in statistical significance, those things which appeal to […]

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  March 28, 2018

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  African Monsoon, African Union, Afrrica, boundaries, Burkina Faso, Chris Reiij, climatic oscillations, desertification, drought, edges, Faidherbia albida, Garrity, Global Environmental Facility, Great Green Wall, Great Green Wall Initiative, Holocene epoch, Jessica Tierney, Khalil Gibran, Mohamed Bakaar, Niger, Richard Sr. Barbe Baker, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Science Advances, Serving in Mission, Smithsonian Magazine, sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahel, Tony Rinaudo, trees, trending, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, University of Arizona, World Bank, World Resources Institute