Tagging and its sibling concordance are aimed at pattern work, at reorganizing for new uses. Having the landing page for a key word with its living contexts be a place not just for reading but also for further pattern-making and writing is dynamite.
Just a vague though at the moment:
I’ve always found concordances interesting. I think I’ve a pretty recently unread one on a shelf somewhere. I’d not though of them as another way to dig into a blog. I’ve found a couple of interesting ways to search my blog recently. I wonder if something like the video demo that Ken Smith linked to could be made for WordPress tags?
A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, through the notes your past self took for your future self. An autopoietic system where information time travels between your future and past self in a meaningful cybernetic loop.
This very much echoed with my recent daily reviews of my On This Day page.
Read: This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan 📚 ★★★☆☆
Three chapters, opium, caffeine, and mescaline. The opium one was recycled from some time ago, it would have been interesting to read more about the opiate crisis in modern times in the USA and the drug companies.
The coffee chapter was quite fascinating, given it is the one of the three I use. The social/political aspects were an interesting introduction to the area.
The mescaline chapter dug into some Native American/American Indian information and ideas. Including that some prefer the name Indian to Native American. I found this and the surrounding politics of mescaline more interesting that the effects of the drug.
For the last few years I’ve had a education subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. Mostly for Fireworks. FW is not going to survive past Mac OS 10.15, Catalina, 2019, 64 bit only. Yesterday I cancelled my sub. I’ll miss FW’s separation of layers & frames in gifs.
A jewel in your head? Toad, you've put one in mine, a tiny radiance in a dark place.
Via Pome by Matthew Ogle on tinyletter. I am very fond of toads. Easily found online.
Common Blue Damselfly & Common Darter at Ardinning yesterday. Also saw very large dark blue dragonfly.
continuing to support the plugin through 2022 is the right call for the project as well as the community
Given that we have just enabled blocks on Glow Blogs I am glad classic will continue to be supported. I am still on classic here too.
A batch of newspaper blackout poems.
Nice examples of blackout poetry from the master. I must remember to get my class to do some this session.
Read Second Place by Rachel Cusk ★★★★☆ 📚 pretty intense narrator who is obsessed with self absorbed artist.
Kilpatrick Muir today, heather very much in bloom, few butterflies about despite the overcast weather. Peacock & Green Veined White.
