Entries by Stephen Jenkinson
PLAY IT
All Out of Still
A few months ago a certain degree of unspectacular life adversity leaned over to me and whispered: "What if you stop for a while? You were obliged off the road anyhow by the plague. Why not go the rest of the way there, and choose stillness?"
Clever fellow.
Years ago I remember coming across some stout advice...
A Memory
Robert Bly has died. Another old tree is gone from the canopy. The light that's let in is harsh, more revelatory than illuminating.
I knew him for a time, corresponded for maybe a year or two. I found him remarkably kind and generous in person. He torpedoed Money and the Soul's Desires in its early iteration, drawing...
QUIET
DRY BONES
We call them 'playing cards' now. That's in keeping with how we tend to treat things whose importance or consequence we've lost track of. They end up in the 'entertainment' bin. Or else we blithely hand them over to the kids to distract themselves with, so they might leave us to our distractions in...
REMEMBER
GRIEF/DIRT
Look
I've for the most part been sitting down, these last sixteen months. I've been writing a book, which partly explains it. I'm hardly going anywhere. No plan I make survives the news. All that sitting makes for numbness, here and there, now and then. Occasionally I try to mobilize. Maybe something comes in that's...
Patient, Ready and Listening – Tour, School and Events – Current Updates and Changes
Update: April. 24th 2021
Well, no sense asking you to ‘stay tuned’. Sometimes, as I’ve had to work up another proviso to put here instead of school registration info, I’ve felt like an MC who’s being prompted from the wings to ‘vamp until ready’, until the tech snafus are undone and the show can go...