Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! In the land of bots does the genuine human rule? Unfortunately not, at present. The Gardener and The Goddess ebook is on sale for the next week! Grab it now! I am reading The Inner Game of Tennis (again) as part of my re-engagement with playing pool regularly, …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! My collage assembly plus extras has gained some momentum, so I am making good progress. There has in the process of doing this work been an ever-growing sense of unease. I’ve come to a conclusion or two about where it was coming from, and what to do about …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have a cold. I’m still writing. Four more collage pieces since the last blog. The book is beginning to take shape. Key moments have received their first pass. The act of writing is the act of decision making and consciously or not, plenty of decisions have been …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Pool and life, pool and writing, it really does offer a lot of lessons/provide interesting parallels for me. Thank you to some of my regulars here who said hello over there on my pool playing diary! It really is just me talking to myself in public, which I …
Continue reading Writing, practice, and Mindfulness: A Meander
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! As some of you may know, I’m passing fond of the game of pool. This does connect to writing, bear with me. Since before the pandemic I had lost most of my pool playing mojo. I stopped playing in my last league in December of 2019, thinking I …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This quitting/cutting back on the internet is hard. The algorithm loves me and wants me to be happy. Just one more video related to one of my previously documented obsessions. Look, it is slightly different than the others. Oooh! An update! New recycled content about Alien!! Updates on …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Do you, like me, sometimes wonder where the wonder went? Did it disappear in a puff of wonderment? When I decide to watch a random streaming flick, I often look for a ‘space’ movie. Something set out there, big enough to give that sense of wonder you would …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Pusillanimous. A long time ago a girl asked me what word she was thinking. I said pusillanimous, thinking it a fancy word she’d be deeply unlikely to be thinking (and which I didn’t understand the meaning of, I just liked the way it sounded, an upmarket purple of …
Continue reading Hyperfactual transmission: A new origin for an old phrase
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have had two full strength coffees. I should be powered up beyond belief. But I ate two grotesquely sugared cookies (I was sugar free for about 5 months this year and fell off the wagon just before Hallowe’en, not a good time to give in to temptation! …
Continue reading Jazzed to Sluggishly Meet you, My dear Boswell.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This has been a week either of failure, or of tremendously successful procrastination. I can’t lie, I have done not a thing on the book. I opened the file a few times and glanced at the legend ‘Chapter 1’, but then looked away. Why? Well, last week I …
Continue reading I’ll think of a title later… (The Procrastinator’s Credo)
Roderick T. Macdonald 