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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Seamus Heaney climbs back “out of the marvellous as he had known it”
The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
"for each time you or I treat images as presentations of something else […] we have smash
Went with Rachel to the Anish Kapoor show at the Royal Academy. It’s worth a pilgrimage and I use this word advisedly because there is...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
The Amateur Life
Everything recently has been pointing me towards the joy of the home made, of the amateur. Professional and amateur: when you set those...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Icarus, back to earth by choice.
Up on Holy Island for the 3rd time this year. This time as a student. It’s wonderful being here without any organizational concerns....
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Thoughts are a Planet. The Body is the Sun. Occupy your Being. Join the revolution.
George Monbiot makes an interesting statement in this morning’s Guardian. He points out that there is a myth: that the people at the top...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
“peace came upon me and it leaves the weak so sleep silent angel, go to sleep” k.d.lang
Pina Bausch died and I didn’t find out till a week later. Dancer: Julie Anne Stanzak. Bhne von Peter Pabst UA Wuppertal 1982 No creator...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
digesting the crab at the muddy bottom of the rivers of Bowery
I first went there in 1994 when I was 24 and knotted. I’d just met Abraham, a handsome ballet dancer in Berlin with the biggest thighs...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
the redundant ‘it’ of ‘it is raining’
Been reading more Alan Watts. No one I’ve read or listened to has more succintly and pithily summed up the core ideas of Buddhist Dharma...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 201914 min read
Homoignorance: considerations for the gay or lesbian client in therapy
This is an essay that I wrote as part of my psychotherapy training, which I have slightly re-written as an article. I’ve removed all the...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Vertical spaces
Two photos from one day that happen to align.
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
In liquid praise of sound refraining
[This is the text to the performance I created together with Tazul Tajuddin for the Spitalfields Festival in June 2007. It was woven into...
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