Cold Pastoral
‘Cold Pastoral!’ – John Keats All teachers are shepherds, herders to the water-troughs, civilisation’s culture-pots. Some shepherds are more creative than others, it has to be said. You can lead a...
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Words fly down from high places to congregate as sentences where the foothills turn to texts and stories true and false begin to spread their wings. Nobody knows which to believe: the ones with...
View ArticleWhat To Eat When You Don’t Eat Animals
Download the Guide (PDF) Last Updated March 2022 Originally created by Veda Stram in 1992, this revised and expanded 2022 version is the result of a wonderfully fruitful collaboration with David...
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Looking for the truth for the last eight years Giving up my entire social life The highest point has been the page With the odd message and occasional porn I leave you on a high at my lowest points...
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The battered vintage Corona clattered in its case, inpounded dark and red ribbon taut as a bandana round a migraine. Plunket’s manicured fingers translating her unwritten diaries. Fifteen of them,...
View ArticleSausage Life 222
Bird Guano’s SAUSAGE LIFE The column which, without proper maintenance, would collapse under the weight of its own self-importance. MYSELF: I would like to announce that from today, all reader’s...
View ArticleSHELLY MANNE/OSTIA
Time makes man a play-thing But man alone may play with time – Here comes Shelly Manne Have you met this man? His inner clock can calibrate A micro hair-breadth fraction Of silence amid action In...
View ArticleSHADES OF RAINBOW
You wonder! Love is no more unconditional In this domain Where terms & conditions apply. You don’t care About the Moon, stars and bijoux. You care About the welkin The firmament that breathes...
View ArticleMeaning
What is a drowning person losing? There is all conflict in the world. Sometimes, the critic is there to Lead you astray before you live Are you aware? I would keep the sensibility alive instead and be...
View Articlefrom The Life of the Theatre 13
Three Meditations on Strategies. Two. we are in great need of reality in our time a generation rages: don’t vote don’t pay taxes defy the police burn your money puncture tires upheaval destroy the...
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