Back in December I posted a few pics here from a self-produced book by way of celebrating the process.

I am doing so again from my latest to recommend having a go: I’m not promoting the actual company [and this one is different to December’s which will make my point] but if you search around you can find amazing deals to compile personal photo/text books that are professionally produced.

You simply upload from your files and drag and paste, either as a whole background page, individual item, or compilation. I keep it very simple. Text is best transferred in as a ping.

The three pics from this are from a 100 page book that cost £10 to purchase [!] and £4 to post, here as a slideshow:

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but let there be no filthiness
no corrupting talk
no mourn and weep

if you was filled with laughter
with crackling of yourself
with striving after wind

have lips with shouting
with cup overflows
with a heart made glad

but let there be no derision
no business of sorrow
no love in the wicked

if you was to please him
with faith out of your mouths
with even a pig’s snout

have delight with time to laugh
with love that eats its hungry
with your upbuilding

but let there be no gnat and swallowing
no beautiful women without discretion
no delivering up my body

if you was to laugh at mourning
with time that dries bones
with whoever loves for hunger

have punishment with fruits
with mocking to anoint
with righteousness as vanity

[Source: Bible]

Obtain this clear view
recognised and understood,

how the clear recognition
is factual and thereby created

to avoid being complete
reality – the fundamental

actual of a prevailing deficit
in a trace of truth:

this every trace of doubt
that can only be the truth.

Not effective facts of things
or connections; rather they are

demolished and dissolved
through appropriate truth.

Doubt that is healthy is
logical and relates to

consciousness, that of an
appropriately felt vision:

clear vision and clear easy
paths to realities and

recognitions as doubts
because doubts signify.

Obtained knowledge is brought
and indulged in, respectively,

from what is recognised and
what has been signified.

Recognition is created,
knowledge-demanding.

The truth itself
of effective reality

is always symptomatic
of basic truths displaced.

The fundamental activity of
developing ignorant material

strives to be forcefully
expressed, not oppressed.

The maintenance of doubt
is extensively realised.

[Source: Ein Quentchen Wissen, Sinn und Weisheit, Bobby Meier – translation]

A while back I prepared some potential teaching materials to focus on Fake News, and this is the beginning of a PowerPoint for illustration. It was never finished, but I came across it yesterday and post as an idle share.

The main interest for me were the tweets of the time I found to help illustrate:

I was going to link this with work from my co-authored education text Writing Workshops where one of these was a focus on how to use photos to manipulate a viewpoint, in this case a peaceful or non-peaceful protest:

Media Studies really. These days, it should be a compulsory subject.

Very pleased to be here today with my found prose poem Renaissance – thank you Greg McCartney.

To find me, click on ‘Poetry’ and scroll down, but there is much else to read.

Interesting – for me at least: after yesterday’s link to my Genesis poem ‘Said’ at International Times, I saw this possibility in an erasure from the same source, and it seemed more of what I meant/wanted to say, but I am still not sure.

I am surprised I hadn’t originally seen this. Perhaps both mean/suggest the same thing but through different routes.

Pleased to have my erasure poem ‘Said’ from a sequence using Genesis here today. Thanks to IT and RL.