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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Category Archives: music of the spheres
catalytic projection
I wrote earlier about how it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter. The message is, although we’ve been stuck inside and generally weather bound, connections to people and places and ideas and concepts and dreams have been exploding all over … Continue reading
the one song…
This is the one song I think anyone, perhaps even me, could sing in karaoke. But strangely (perhaps luckily) I don’t think I have ever heard it – karaoke-wise, I mean. Go-warn, you know you wanna; sing along to perhaps … Continue reading
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celebrating the autumn equinox
This evening we decided to celebrate the autumn equinox (I know – a little late – was March 20) but better late than never. We took ourselves off to a local venue, and after a delicious supper of ham, salads, … Continue reading
it’s getting better…
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time… It’s about 30 years since this album came out. Today, on Amazon, it’s at number 8 on the best seller list – it’s still selling well. Interestingly, … Continue reading
music man
Renaissance man, Mark Bernstein asks, “How would you know?” What Mark is writing about is how does one discover and enjoy the varieties of music that surround us. It’s a very good question, and one I’ve written about here before … Continue reading
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Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Last night Marica and I were making food for today, and finding some time just to enjoy each other’s company over a little antipasto. I’d slipped on Van Morrison’s Inarticulate Speech of the Heart cd – I think it represents … Continue reading
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last of the wild front ears
As a little update on the story of my adventures with my new iPod, Brian recommended I get Griffin Earthumps. I was initially a little surprised – Earth Humps? Should one be doing that with Mother Earth? Oh, du-uh, it’s … Continue reading
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cone of silence
I bought an early xmas pressie for us – the 30gb iPods. Yay! They’ve been a while coming while I reconciled myself to paying about four or more times what I’d expect to pay for a 30gb hard drive. You … Continue reading
no sandwich, just the cheese
I slip below for a few days and when I surface I find people have been madly creating and working like wild things. I’m thrilled to see Grant has got 88.4 The Cheese up and running online. Online. Streaming radio. … Continue reading
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shine on
It seems like a hundred years ago from the time when this gawky kid sat in the front row in a seminar room of the old Wellington Polytech and listened, rapt, as a very much younger Ian Athfield reignited the … Continue reading
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