London - reflections, thoughts, blog posts

London - collected reflections, thoughts, blog posts

Linking Minds
"There is so much more to say when you feel every day the pain and rage, the cultural and material impoverishment, the chaos just beneath the surface. Reaffirming the power of hearts and words feels like one of the few things I can do at this moment, so below the photo is what I was going to post today anyway, and here are a few more subtle voices on the riots."
- Jean Morris, London

Upside Down World
"It may be seen as ridiculous to be worrying about short stories - about fiction, about the arts in general - when looters are smashing windows around England, burning down buildings..."
- Tania Hershman

Feral Capitalism
"OK, a rare rant. I too am appalled by mindless rioting and looting, especially by children, but I am not surprised, not at all."
- Beth Adams

London
"the last time London received such a huge media coverage was in April, with the royal wedding. putting the riot images next to it now makes the divide that runs through societies very clear.  ... today i wish for someone like a new Gandhi."
- Dorothee Lang

White beconing black and blacks becoming white
"...I very much fear that England is going to get this spectacularly wrong. All the commentators, like Starkey, are responding reflexively from within the narrow framework of their entrenched positions.."
- Petina Gappa

Too Many Words
"Those who have said the most useful things are not politicians or pundits but people whose actions are better than words."
- Natalie d'Arbeloff

& a blog post that is worth the visit especially for the ongoing disussion in the comments, which are almost up to 500: Penny Red / London.

the photo is from 2009, this is near Underground Station Old Street. the higher houses beyond the old buildings belong to the banking district.

The challenge

The challenge, I think, is to witness beauty at home.

These days, I see it all around me.

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Click links below for full images:

Flowers 1

Black White Black White Black

Waterfall 1


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from Karyn Eisler's blog: Living? / VisuaLiving

challenges: Fail

as prelude to the launch of the challenge issue:
a challenge story that was published in BluePrintReview #20, "The Missing Part" issue.

FAIL by Zhoen
"My father thought that the trick to a good life was being able to play an instrument. (He always thought there was a trick to any kind of success. He'd never managed the trick to it, so was where he was.) I was terrific at cutting my losses. I minded my mother telling me I lacked sticktoitiveness.

I failed to have her ironclad faith. Lost it when I was eight, if I'd ever had it at all. I wanted it, prayed for it...."

read it all, here: "Fail" by Zhoen, photo by Cecilia Austin