Plus: I now know who I
am
Plus: I have a new camera
Beckenham
Library in
Kent will mark
the 4th of July tomorrow with a self-publish
and be blessed day and I am one of
the people invited by Michael
J. Weller to come and talk about my own experiences.
I'll give a short PowerPoint presentation and
then perhaps have a chance to dialogue
with Mike about that alternative
universe known as self-publishing.
The mikonoclastic
maker of HomeBaked
Books is a friend and
fellow self-publisher who has described me as
an itinerant
rhizomath . Forgive my ignorance but
I had to look it up. Here's what botany and
philosophy have to say about rhizome and rhizomatic:
...a characteristically
horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found
underground, often sending out roots and shoots from
its nodes.....If a rhizome is separated into pieces,
each piece may be able to give rise to a new plant.
Rhizomatic thought is non-linear,
anarchic and nomadic ....Rhizomatic thought is multiplicitous,
moving in many directions and connected to many other
lines of thinking, acting, and being.
...rhizome has no beginning
or end; it is always in the middle, between things,
interbeing, intermezzo.
Here, at last, is the
answer to my lifelong question: WHO AM I?
Thanks to Mike
Weller's brilliant insight, I can now carry on in
my itinerant rhizomathic way with complete confidence
that I am fulfilling my destiny.
I HAVE A NEW CAMERA
My old Fuji Finepix
bought in January 2004 has
died. Is a digital camera too old at seven? Not by my
reckoning but I'm old school and believe things should
last and last and last. Unfortunately I've had to accept
the unfairness of its demise and start searching for
a replacement. This is a process that awakens my inner
anorak and there's no snippet of information, however
boring, which escapes my detail-hungry eye. After weighing
up the evidence concerning those cameras I could afford,
I settled on the Canon
PowerShot A3300 . All the options will take some
getting used to and it feels more fragile than my old
camera but it's too soon to say what I think of it. Here
are some of the first shots I've taken with it.
