marginalia
is the Latin word for 'things in the margin', and refers to writing or decoration in the margins of a manuscript. I am exploring the edges and margins of our world through photographs and writing....from February 5, 2011...
I was too busy writing elsewhere to write here this time last year. So many words, so little time...
Roughly translated...
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
what did I want?
What did I want? I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, “The game’s afoot!” I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a … Continue reading
Posted in authentic self, reflective practice, storytelling
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every thing tells a story…
Some years ago I took my Mum to Townsville, far north Queensland. She’d had some surgery that hadn’t gone well. I was working three part time jobs being as full time work was unavailable. It was the middle of winter … Continue reading
thick as a brick…
…but not as tasty. Manuals, that’s what we’re talking about here. Manuals. How to do it, be it, make it, fake it, break it, hack it, fix it – the list goes on. But oh, if only the zen masters … Continue reading
Posted in inspirations
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the last avocado…
This is an avocado (Persea americana). Not a particularly large avo, not a trophy avo, true; but it was very tasty. I’d have to say more tasty than any other, ever. Why was it more exceptional than usual? Some years … Continue reading
Posted in authentic self, suburban gardens, what dreams
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tiddle me
I was talking about my new online Japanese haiku tiddlywiki with one of my workmates. He was saying how he’d like a tiddlywiki to create manuals etc, but the whole online hosting drama was just a pain when you’re not … Continue reading
Posted in catalytic projection, favorite things, thinking, writing
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updates done
Right, that’s that done then – I’ve finally got the AkoNet web site sorted. It hasn’t been a huge upgrade, more of the annual tidy up that should’ve (ahem) happened back in January/February (when, instead, we were packing ready to … Continue reading
Posted in haibun, stoking the creative fire, writing
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write on
It suddenly seems like I haven’t written here in a very long time. It’s not that I’m not writing, I’m working through the update of the AkoNet web site and that uses up my writing for the day. There’s only … Continue reading
Posted in authentic self, writing
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