This week I taught a workshop called ‘Writing Without Bannisters’, for a storytelling festival at King’s College, a riff on Hannah Arendt’s idea of thinking without bannisters, basically another chance to bang on about the power of attention as a practice.
Fantastic, thank you, and I love the photographs. They remind me of what Edward Albee saw on a mirror in a bar in NYC, written in soap, (although a writer for the New Yorker said they saw it on the wall of an expresso joint) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Using it next week as the focus of a session I'm doing at an education conference. What illusions, fallacies, are we scared of tackling when educating young people who are good with words? Less 'English' and more paying attention to words - thank you.
I love this- all the pictures, so many curious and interesting thinsg surround us. I recently posted sth here that included a poster of somoene looking for a lost pigeon-it included an email- which i wrote to, albeit a year or two after seeing the poster, but there was not reply.
Fantastic, thank you, and I love the photographs. They remind me of what Edward Albee saw on a mirror in a bar in NYC, written in soap, (although a writer for the New Yorker said they saw it on the wall of an expresso joint) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Using it next week as the focus of a session I'm doing at an education conference. What illusions, fallacies, are we scared of tackling when educating young people who are good with words? Less 'English' and more paying attention to words - thank you.
I'm trying harder to pay attention, focusing in on all the senses too.
I love this- all the pictures, so many curious and interesting thinsg surround us. I recently posted sth here that included a poster of somoene looking for a lost pigeon-it included an email- which i wrote to, albeit a year or two after seeing the poster, but there was not reply.
Thank you for this.
We all seem to need to be frequently reminded to be aware and to pay attention.
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