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Where do you go to, my lovely? Peter Sarstedt, 1969 Where do the children play? Cat Stevens, 1970 Where have all the flowers gone? Pete Seeger, 1955 Platforms are a bit like Jabberwocky: to paraphrase Alice, they seem very pretty, but they’re rather hard to understand. I chose the songs above for a number of … Continue reading “Where do you go to, my lovely? A look forward to platforms in 2014”
They say a dog’s not just for Christmas. That’s the way I feel about forgiveness. It’s something I think about every day, not just at Christmas. It’s something I’ve been thinking about in the context of how relationships work. One of the authors and thinkers I’ve been dipping into lately is Gregory Bateson, often quoted … Continue reading “Thinking about forgiveness and relationships and work and pleasure”
Silos. They’ve been around for years, millennia even; evidence of silos can be found in Tel Staf, c.5200-4700 BC. Storehouses of valuable produce, protecting and enhancing that value, connected into the supply and demand rituals of local markets. They’re still around, but now they’re crumbling and decaying, with rats fighting over the … Continue reading “Musing about silos and streams”
“I don’t know where that leaves you, but you’re still deceased as far as the law is concerned.” You couldn’t make it up. A man disappears in 1986; is declared legally dead in 1994; reappears in 2005. And the judge, calling it a “strange, strange situation”, found that death rulings cannot be overturned after … Continue reading “Still deceased after all these years”
I seem to move house every ten years or so. I keep telling myself “This is the last time”; my appetite for the wholesale upheaval that a house move represents has waned somewhat. There was a time when people didn’t move much, they tended to live and die close to where they were born. I … Continue reading “Thinking about change and choice and consequence”