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June 26- #AudioMo – Reflecting Privilege

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It’s June 26 and the final stretch for #AudioMo, where I am reflecting on how I tell the story of my life, and what I don’t say in the process.

  • Date June 26, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo

June 25 – #AudioMo – How to Ignore a Crisis

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Ninety days on a boat and in my #AudioMo for June 25 I reflect on how good we are at ignoring the enormity of what’s going on. With added cat sounds.

  • Date June 25, 2020

June 24 – #AudioMo – Making A Video

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Wednesday June 24 and another #AudioMo, this time about filming, and being a councillor.

  • Date June 24, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo

June 23- #AudioMo – Plague Inc.

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My #AudioMo for June 23 is something I wrote in 2017, about a group of young people playing Plague, Inc. and what I thought about it at the time.

  • Date June 23, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, Plague

June 22- #AudioMo – Letters and Poems

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My #AudioMo for June 22, and I’m looking at pieces of paper and reflecting on what they mean, with memories of those distant and lost.

More about Beatie Wolfe

  • Date June 22, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, memory, Poetry, writing

June 21 – #AudioMo – Remembering Hugh Mellor

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June 21, and my #AudioMo tonight is a remembrance of Hugh Mellor, the philosopher and a former teacher of mine, who died today. With passing boats.

Photo of the Philosophy Library by Sebastian Ballard / CC BY-SA

  • Date June 21, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, philosophy

June 20 – #AudioMo – Riverside Tales

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A solstice day on the river and the riverbank, involving turning boats, ducks, and the way joy pushes out despair

And listen to Erland Cooper’s A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window

  • Date June 20, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, River, Solstice

June 19 – #AudioMo – The View from Elsewhere

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On June 19, as we head towards the solstice, my #AudioMo is a reflection on the week, and lockdown, and the importance of understanding how the pandemic is experienced elsewhere.

  • Date June 19, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, Covid-19

June 18 – #AudioMo – Reading Ramsay

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It’s June 18 but I have little to say for today’s #AudioMo. I’ll read Cheryl Misak’s Frank Ramsay biography instead.

  • Date June 18, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo

June 17 – #AudioMo – Time to Pay

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For my #AudioMo for June 17 I’ve disinterred a fairly random note from over a year ago about time travel and jewel thefts. It came from a time when I travelled on trains.

  • Date June 17, 2020
  • Tags AudioMo, time

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