How Walter Breuggemann shaped me
At its best, a family can be ‘a communal network of memory and hope in which individual members may locate themselves and discern their identities’
📷 Photo challenge day 20: gather.
Six seagulls gather on a sandstone rock at La Perouse, #Sydney.
#mbjune
What to do when you've made some notes: Start writing
The next step after taking notes is to create a finished piece of writing, acknowledging that the first draft may be disorganized but serves as a foundation for improvement.
📷 Photo challenge day 19: equal.
💬 “I exist in a fractally connected, self-organized universe where everything relates dynamically to everything else” - Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning.
Yes, we all do.
#mbjune #zettelkasten
Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.
From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.
I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.
#WritingCommunity #NoteTaking #PKM #Zettelkasten #BookWriting #SlowWriting
📷 Photo challenge day 18: texture.
Furry or spiky? Spotted on a boardwalk in the Royal National Park near #Sydney - as featured in day 2.
#mbjune
What I Learned from Bob Doto about Making Effective Notes and Writing a Book
Historian Dan Allosso led a discussion on Bob Doto’s insights on flexible note-taking and writing processes. It emphasised the importance of iterative development and audience engagement. Here are my notes.
📷 Photo challenge day 17: warmth.
We saw a curious warning at this year’s Vivid, the big winter festival of light in #Sydney. #mbjune
📷 Photo challenge day 16: blur. A smoking ceremony at Prince Alfred Park, #Sydney. #mbjune
Influence is everything: novelty its flimsy dress
This whole article dumbed down by AI summary: Cultural trends often leave behind valuable ideas that merit revisiting rather than being dismissed as unfashionable. And I thought I was being clever.
Finished reading: Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling by Henry Lien 📚
A ‘how-to’ book on kishotenketsu, a Japanese storytelling concept that’s an alternative to ‘the hero’s quest’. Like many such books, it’s worth reading just for the summaries of example stories.
💬"When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." - James Baldwin. Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 78. no. 91, 1984.
📷 Photo challenge day 15: tie. This is how the tugboat from day 9 was secured to the wharf at Pyrmont, #Sydney. #mbjune
Photo challenge, day 14: twilight at the mouth of Deerubbin, the Hawkesbury River #mbjune #Sydney
📷 Photo challenge day 13: pathway. Calna Creek, just north of #Sydney. #mbjune
📷 Photo challenge day 12: hidden.
It’s easy to watch the annual ‘humpback highway’ whale migration at Malabar Headland in #Sydney - so you might easily miss this guy, who is looking the other way.
#mbjune
Worth repeating and re-repeating:
“the evidence shows that regularising migration is a positive-sum game, in economic, social and security terms.”
A definitive study of a hotly debated phenomenon: migration into Europe and America, its socioeconomic impacts, and the eternal policy efforts to stop the inevitable.
#migration
📷 Photo challenge day 11: brick.
#Sydney has more than one Japanese garden, but only one is owned by geese.
#mbjune
📷 Photo challenge, day 10: rail.
Of the many wonderful exhibits at the NSW Rail Museum, this little railbus is one of my favourites. Though small, it still gets a Wikipedia entry.
#mbjune #Sydney #railwayheritage
