Nov 25, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private ...
Nov 22, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLV 〜 Net catch rating Welcome to the 255th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 20, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
Nov 18, 2025 from Improve Something Today Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.
Nov 15, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIV 〜 Blue light buyout Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIII 〜 NewsELEC Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’
Nov 04, 2025 from Silence Calling The Grand Sun On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while
Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW Holy Shame The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...
Nov 03, 2025 from Silence Calling Minimal Materialism Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less than what's required
Nov 01, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLII 〜 Dinogourd OS Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Oct 30, 2025 from Chaotican Writer 7 New TTRPG Experiences from GameHole Con 2025 Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright Bard Games, Storytellers Forge, Need Games, and Critical Kit Ltd! The post 7 New...
Oct 29, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌱 the royal hotel - a movie review Note: this review contains spoilers.
Oct 28, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 the mummy - a movie review Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.
Oct 27, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 Sammy Keyes - a book review Sammy Keyes is a middle grade mystery series centering a young girl living illegally with her grandmother. This review does not contain spoilers. What Works the choice of characters feels realistic...
Oct 25, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLI 〜 Mahiru, Allen, and George Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 excavations - a book review Note: this review contains spoilers What I Loved Skillfully crafted three-dimensional characters which enables the book to be about more than the plot. complicated nature of motherhood, the trauma ...
Oct 25, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 it’s hard to savor the end when you don’t know it’s coming You gotta savor the ending of a good book. When you know it’s the last page or paragraph you can slow down and really feel what the characters are feeling. With audiobooks and ebooks, though, it’s ...
Oct 23, 2025 from nutcroft I Am Out Of Data Hell I haven’t written anything in four months. This period of prolonged silence is best explained by the unexpected difficulties of the business that I started in 2024, on the assumption that it must b...
Oct 21, 2025 from Improve Something Today ‘Undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.
