i have decided after some deliberation this week, to take a hiatus from blogging. Perhaps a month or so, until the summer is over— i think it may be searing my brain, short circuiting some of the neuronal connections, my dendrites are firing blanks. i furthermore, received a high number of rushed rejections from journals…
Category: essays
A tousle with a Keyboard Warrior
A tousle with a Keyboard Warrior ‘Keyboard Warrior’ (Footnote 1. i. A Person who, being unable to express his anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that…
Powerless But Free?
Originally posted on word and silence:
The image is a familiar one: an aging man or woman who becomes more and more bewildered and angered at the usual political corruption, or the pace of technological or social change. To protect themselves they become more and more strident and inflexible, and retreat behind whatever cultural or…
Into the Hailstorm – To Let Go and To Just Go Out Foraging
Originally posted on Grunewald Foraging:
Copyright Evey Kwong 2017 It seems I’ve neglected the Grunewald Foraging blog for some time. The truth is, my intention for this website is not to record or detail my foraging walks (though I might refer to them for some specific reason); the blog was started more to record my…
Dérives: Goethe Dies (Strasbourg)
Originally posted on Celluloid Wicker Man:
It came with a great sense of relief that, on the 29th of March, I had a plane to catch. This plane that I was to catch on the afternoon of the 29th was heading to Strasbourg; a visit to ma chérie and an escape from the 29th of…
Moonlighting in another’s culture
i may not be the right person to opine on this subject, however, as someone who entertains the things that coalesce inside them, i can’t ignore when something comes to me, not piecemeal, but in one chunk, as if the sculptor only had to tap the marble once & the figure in his mind appears,…
Integrated Information Theory as Formula for Poetry (the whole essay)
i am very much aware that this isn’t light reading so i thank you for putting some welly into it & getting at it with yer brain teeth. i want it in one place & i want to push it, because writing this kind of thing is tough going— it took maybe 1 month of…
Part i & ii of a iv part essay titled—Integrated Information Theory as Formula for Poetry
i don’t have the foggiest idea what i’ve done. i suppose i’d call it connecting the dots in some odd way. reading up on IIT all these thoughts homed in on me & this essay was produced. though i have edited & worked it, all the ideas were spawned organically, quite automatic & even against…
Pagans We Are does TEDx (video inside)
Originally posted on pagansweare:
This past November, I gave a TEDx talk on Jeju Island, where I’ve been documenting shamanic shrine culture for the past five years, as you well know if you follow my page. I talk about my video and photography work and the importance of preserving sacred spaces, many of which are…
The Analects of Naneun (Pt. 1)
Originally posted on Dr. Daniel Schnee:
The Analects of Naneun Here for the first time is the English translation of the first few pages of my work The Analects of Naneun (ナヌンの論説: “nanun no ronsetsu”), a free-form mixture of haibun and poetry (zuihitsu) I self-published in Japan nearly 20 years ago. Each poem-form in the…
Getting a good night sleep with a little help from the Supreme Reality of the Universe
Originally posted on Daniel Paul Marshall:
Getting a good night sleep with a little help from the Supreme Reality of the Universe all of us without exception are susceptible to dreams. if their pull is particularly intense they wash over our night & if they are particularly influential loiter in our thoughts, their magnetism pulling…
Of Rhyme & Reason: i, ii & iii under one roof
really want to push this series, if only because i’ve been working on it for a month— after the weekend i promise to leave it be & return to largely poetic & photographic posts. so here is: part i— both short & long feet skip the line part ii— the reason the rhymer rhymes their rhymes…
