Month: January 2018
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The language may be a bit portentous. Nevertheless, here is from p. 7:
So the story begins. It is a story of churning oceans, ships, dragon’s breath, siren calls. A story of leviathans and faith, about islands and the building of ships. About Hell and Paradise. About blood and fever. And greed, of course. That, above all.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Instars
You will wear several skins
and outgrow all of them.
You’ll sense the pull of
tightness beforethe fabric splits.
So leave them behind you
like plastic wrappers,
or human dresses
discarded in the rain.Feel the relief
of each release,
the freedom
to expand again.Self met the Australian poet Bronwyn Lovell during a 2015 stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig.
A few weeks ago, Irish visual artist Jacinta O’Reilly gifted self with a copy of Bronwyn’s chapbook, Chrysalis.
The poem above is from the chapbook.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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So much fun to do Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenges!
Self’s Letter T: The Tate Modern, in London’s former Bankside Power Station
On the last day of 2017, self was in London. She took a walk. It was okay until it started to rain. Luckily, she’d already crossed the Millenium Bridge by the time it started coming down hard. She was able to take shelter across the street from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
This was one of the pictures she took that day:
London’s Tate Modern, 31 December 2017: In a truly thrilling transformation, the former Bankside Power Station became a great world-class museum. Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Self spent the last day of 2017 in London, a city dear to her heart.
She took an iconic walk. It was a cloudy day.
The Millenium Bridge, London: Dec. 31, 2017 
More Millenium Bridge: Dec. 31, 2017 
The Crouching Man in Front of the British Library: Dec. 31, 2017 -
If life is a process of accumulating more and more things you simply can’t bring yourself to make peace with, well, my feelings about this are vast and deep enough for an entire lifetime’s worth of hang-ups.
— p. 4, Moshi Moshi
Despite the fact that self did not make her reading goal of 30 books in 2017 (She got to 26), she signed up again for the Goodreads Reading Challenge, and upped the ante: 35 books to read in 2018.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 