Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I made this ‘card’ reusing a British Library Public Domain digitised image from 1868.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I made this ‘card’ reusing a British Library Public Domain digitised image from 1868.
Third comic in what now has become a new experimental series, reusing public domain images from the British Library.
This morning I received a message from a colleague sharing they had tested positive and were feeling very poorly. In the last couple of months, I heard from family members, friends and colleagues and students who have tested positive too, sometimes for the second time (in one instance, for the third time). “Following Government guidance” has become an excuse for organisations of all types to abdicate their duty of care for their stakeholders.
I haven’t posted anything here in a while. The pandemic, changes in the social media ecosystem and a heavy workload have kept me away from this blog. I had forgotten I had handwritten these notes in one of my notebooks and I thought I’d type them up and share them here. They are based on my personal learning as a journal editor for over a decade.
Para Paty, Natalia y Camilla "En hierva de primavera nos convertimos" -Aztec poem, as quoted by Alfonso Caso (1953) What is time when love and memory are eternal? Pages on the kitchen's calendar; the flickering of dates on screens. It is all about "having the courage to continue", as I remember the poet & the thinker talk about, discuss distance as bodies in spirits, over the line.
W e are halfway through January already, but I am only beginning to gather energy to restart again. Over the years this blog as been many things, at points becoming merely some kind of listing of things I have done (but never all). Here I’d like to reflect on what could be done differently, here, and elsewhere.
It’s been a while since I translated a poem. One morning while doing something else, you randomly take a book from the shelves, open it and find a poem that speaks to you, and calls you to translate it, in order to share it with others who also share your mother tongue.
T he UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has advised that to prevent the NHS being under pressure the priority should be to avoid a very rapid return to pre-pandemic behaviour.
T his week I had to go in my local GP surgery in London. I wondered if they would soon be removing the “Stop Coronavirus! Covid-19. Please wear your face mask” signage they have visible outside and inside. Working from home long hours, I haven’t really gone out much at all, and seeing the signs again made me reflect what a simple gesture that was, merely asking us to please wear a facemask.
[This event was recorded and has been archived on the Embassy’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Embamexru/videos/158542686331722/ – no Facebook account required] T his year’s Learning Disability Week will take place from 14 – 20 June 2021. The theme will be art and creativity.