Thank you Minus Theatre. Your participation & involvement in & support for Minus’s next outing is now sought. Rehearsals begin May 15. Production 26 June. For details of how to help email: simon@minustheatre.com

The following was written when I was without power and what goes by the term connectivity—without power I had no easy access to water but could at least heat what I carried in pots from the smaller of our two tanks that collect rainwater from the roof—because a

is the power of affect more than that of affecting and being an agent of affect causing it. This I was thinking on my way to the workshop at Ellen Melville Centre. The thought grew from the perspective of David Lapoujade, in his small book Powers of Time, 2018 translated

In the workshop I did recently, run by author of Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World, 2018, Jess Berentson-Shaw for those who work in libraries (there is no guarantee anymore they are librarians) about countering false information, certain statements were made I wrote down that are the