Notes From the Northern Colony @stevenson@mastodon.scot
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish writer and Zen Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter, SNP member (but not a nationalist). Flaneur. Married to @OrTheWhale
Joined Feb 2021
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“A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicise such things.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich ride public transportation " - Mayor of Bogota
Spending an inspiring evening tonight at Get Glasgow Moving AGM.
Public transport as a public service not a source of private profit !
Please support our campaign if you live within the Greater Glasgow Area! https://www.getglasgowmoving.org/campaign/stopbsips/
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I'm glad to see one of Scotland's great contemporary Gaelic poets, @gneissgirrl , is now on here.
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#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel https://libcom.org/tags/spanish-civil-war
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The forest is beneath the city, you see, living and breathing. Every root that cracks a sidewalk is a reminder that we persist by a force of will that will someday break. When that day comes the forest will be there waiting.
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scotpol, ukpol, indypol, someone talking about scotland as if it was a f*cking branch office AGAIN
i just resent the implication that the scottish government NECESSARILY would make as much of a mess of an independent scotland as the conservative party has made of Brexit. There's literally already been more planning and discussion of how an indy scotland would function than there was by brexiteer politicians BY THE DAY OF THE EU REFERENDUM.
Glasgow Live thinks Maryhill is in the West End. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/police-break-up-illegal-covid-19892283
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The side effects of the vaccine are not fun. Which tells me what would *really* not be fun: covid.
Poem about my late cat, Jimmy. I wrote this in 2007, I think. https://teahouse.buddhistdoor.net/in-praise-of-a-cat/
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish writer and Zen Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter, SNP member (but not a nationalist). Flaneur. Married to @OrTheWhale
Joined Feb 2021
