with words, wonder

The sun set an hour earlier today.

Storm Boelo has been passing through Scotland for the last many hours, and high winds are expected to remain for the rest of the day.

Today marks 20 years since the release of Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album.

For the last month I have had a bag of coffee in the cupboard with enough beans to make one or two cups.

After "The (My) Desk" from March, 2024.

I stopped in awe.

I now follow three websites or feeds whose authors write in French; in at least two cases, the authors write in both French and English.

The twenty-fourth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the IndieWeb can learn from Wikipedia, community in comment…

Today I made a new zine: autumn (essence, of).

Spectra of coherence — ground, sky; all presents. // Deconstruct.

After writing autumn (essence, of) today, I worked on another zine: flow (or, thinking through).

A flat sky Field of fog Hidden hills Echoes of snowfall — Not yet.

Many of my pieces of writing, especially my creative non-fiction and Nature pieces, describe a single moment or the events that happened over the course of a day.

The night-given crystalline coating on the red leaf shimmers with the burgeoning light of day.

Yesterday I asked three friends a variation of the following question: Is there a website that makes you pause like a piece of architecture?

There is maybe a fun blogging challenge in writing about our favourite snacks from where we live...

Pink flowers, flame red trees.

Writing stories.

What made you happy today?

Rain may exist, but so too do clear skies, and the possibility for something to start serendipitously, like a raindrop falling from a sky once dry or a wave from a friend you never expected to see.

What does the concrete path mean to me?

In September I hosted the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival on the topic of “Moonlight”.

Rain falling from the sky, I looked downward to the concrete path.

The twenty-third episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 23, I chat with Ben, the author of werd.io about, among other things, connection on the indie web, community building, growing the indie web, and more.

I have thought about winter through all the seasons this year.

The twenty-second episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 22, I chat with Tracy, the author of tracydurnell.com about, how websites fit into writing, writing series of posts, websites as part of conversations, and more.

I stand before Nature, looking up to a castle bathed in gold light.

Frozen light yellow clouds hover under a grey sky, illuminated by the horizon sun. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ “I have never seen the sky like that before”, I thought to myself while gazing with my whole mind and body in wonder.

I want to give all my breath to the song, listening to every transcendent, liminal, spooky note, accompanied by intertwined tracks of coded and pure voice.

Elbow grease.

For years I have kept a single running document where I take all my notes and write all my TODOs.

Walking through the Royal Mile, I noticed the faint – then increasing – scent of coffee in the air coming from a popular bakery.

Today there was a rainbow. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ A few minutes into my walk, a shower flashed from the grey sky.

On Tuesday I took a few notes while visiting the National Gallery of Scotland.

At this time of year, the sun begins to rise around the time I wake up.

My website is ever changing.

In Distance there is the sight of everything; here there is the presence of something.

In 2024 I started writing monostiches, which are poems that span a single line.

The low clouds glowed with shades of lavender as I opened the window to see the first colours of Day.

I was listening to a cover of Taylor Swift’s Babylon and, almost immediately, something other than the melody stood out: the resonance of the notes.

nights lost in darkness.

Last month I moved away from using the Ghost CMS to publish pages and posts on my website.

the age of the story.

The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.

The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.

red, amber, green; leaves, lights.

When I opened the window this morning, I was greeted by a white and grey disk, the grey blending into the light blue of the surrounding skies.

When I published Sunset this evening, I saw the post in my web reader, Artemis, and realised that the title was not what I expected.

Glistening over the hills in the immediate distance, the rainbow made me first pause for breath, then pause for thought.This is the first time in months I have seen a rainbow.

The sun danced with the clouds in a competition where both the clouds and the sun wins, for there is always light and cloud.