#KateBriggs24 Mr Allworthy solves Helen's problem of how to live with a baby in sensible idiorrhythmic fashion: meeting, "at the convivial, emphatically manageable, frequency of once per day". With a little help. (And "convivial" is exactly the word used by Barthes re: the Carthusians.)
I finished reading ten books this month -- just four for my usual diversity goal of women/POC, but eight for my monthly reading topic (LGBT+), three in German, and two (2) in Portuguese. www.chinese-poems.com/blog/?p=2746
if i could have a mutant power that just turned leaf blowers into fallen leaves i would be sane
#KateBriggs24www.lyriktheorie.uni-wuppertal.de/lyriktheorie... "Tief in sich trug er eines Hauses Dunkel, Zuflucht und Ruhe".
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
#KateBriggs24tinhouse.com/podcast/kate... -- I've started on it (it's over 2 hours!).
Essayist and translator Kate Briggs’ first novel The Long Form is a book about, and happening within, the relationship between Helen and her infant daughter, Rose. What does making a novel baby-centri...
Fantastic example of what’s possible on car free streets. “…there is no blueprint for what a greened alley should look like. In Moss Side, no two are the same. Some focus on cultivating herbs, fruit and vegetables, while some are purely decorative or act more as social spaces.”
Several of the UK’s northern cities are transforming once neglected passageways into bucolic oases; community spaces filled with urban art, herb gardens — and civic pride
