I’m instituting quarterly updates for both my writing and my crochet (the first wrangling the yarn post will appear next month) mostly for my own benefit; having things to talk about depends on me actually doing things and thus gently encourages steady productivity. That said I do hope a few of you are also interested … More Herding the Words: Q1 2023
My birthday month feels as if it were several months rolled into one and also as if there was not enough time in it to do all that I needed to do. I spent the very start of the month fighting with the ivy that had snuck down the side of my garden and was … More That Was The Month That Was: April 2021
It was the middle of winter. The sun had just set anti was very, very cold. An icy wind was blowing from the Last and the wind promised snow. Deep in the dark roots of Brambly Hedge tiny lights appeared as lamps were lit in the windows. – page 1, Winter Story (Brambly Hedge #4) … More Outdoor Advent Day 5
The cultural theorist Sianne Ngai suggests that, when shocked or grieving, we find ourselves able to speak of the experience only in ‘thick speech’. When speaking thickly, Ngai says, we are challenged in our usual ability to ‘interpret or respond’. A drastic slow down and recursion of language occurs, a rhetorical enactment of fatigue and … More Outdoor Advent Day 3
It is now almost the end of May and this is less of a quarterly and more of a half-ly (if Shakespeare was allowed to make up words, I am too) but I’m not going to let that put me off sharing it with you! I should first say that I wrote most of this … More Kizzia Quarterly – Winter/Spring 2017
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