Entries by Stephen Jenkinson
THE GONENESS OF A FUTURE
If you're in the mood for meme-length considerations, I'd move on if I were you. This is likely to be lengthy. It'll cover some ground.
In the lobby after last night's show a man outwaited all the other patrons to offer me dramaturgical advice, to wit: the end of the festivities should not leave the paying...
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
It's called 'a world tour', this thing of ours. Grand-sounding. Over the top for Canadians to say about themselves. And there isn't much agreement about the scale or range that makes up a 'world' jaunt. One thing's more certain than not, though: small places don't usually qualify for world tour inclusion. If you're on...
TWO BEWILDERMENTS, AND THE WIND BLOWING THROUGH
Some days stagger to their conclusion. We're far from home, in someone else's land, holding out for a kindly reception for our heart's labours. The morning's day off has been spent not touring the haunts of my Harvard days, but in a hotel foyer, waiting on the repair of the rental van's flat tire,...
A LINTY THING
Love, and Grief and Mystery
A STAY
It's a delicate business, this boycotting. The best of people wants justice to prevail, starting anytime. Starting last week. Starting now. Good will: we could start there. But good will is a complicating business.
Boycotting a country is a bit like taking the hippocratic oath: maybe, if you withhold your little something, maybe nothing bad...
BE/LONGING
Birth and Death Among Us
This life of ours isn't ours. The brevity and happenstance alone shows us that.
It isn't a circle, not really. It's not a line from here to there. They're fine enough shapes, but they've no depth, not much room for mystery and consequence. This is surely a time for mystery and consequences. For them you need...