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wrack

@ccohanlon@merveilles.town
hometown 4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck.

"...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles."

https://ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan

– Anne Carson

[from Antigonick, 2015]

#nobots

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wrack
@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Mar 04, 2026

"In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.

"She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system."

– Tamara Nopper

[via Bluesky, again]

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Mar 04, 2026

My wife, our daughter, and I were supposed to leave our son's apartment the day after tomorrow, just before his flatmates returned from South-East Asia and Turkey. Now we've heard they won't be back for another week, so we can stay a little longer

Which is a relief, because my wife has the flu.

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Mar 02, 2026

Good news (finally): we found a small apartment to rent in Rome on Saturday morning. We meet with the agent again this morning to submit our application and to negotiate details on the lease.

More out of superstition than faith, we stopped at a couple of churches on the way back to Ostiense to light candles (yeah, two faithless souls resorting to prayer and cheap offerings to end their wandering).

Once we've secured the apartment, we'll haul Wrack ashore for the rest of the year and begin a long-neglected major refit. In a sense, I will be undergoing the same — thus the effort to settle a while.

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Mar 02, 2026

Last night's reading: Jazz Revolutionary: The Life and Music of Eric Dolphy by Jonathon Grasse.

#theLibrary

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Mar 01, 2026

"...the Orwellian ‘Board of Peace’ has launched its first war."

– Kim Dorman, poet

[via Bluesky, yesterday]

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 27, 2026

Where does the country find these dull-witted cyphers? It's as if all Australia's male politicians, even the young ones, have been cryogenically frozen since the '50s and re-animated wearing the same, ill-fitting, off-the-peg suits.

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 27, 2026

A writer discovers a richly illustrated journal from the 60s that belonged to one of author ('One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest') Ken Kesey's notorious Merry Pranksters, who went by the name Cool Breeze.

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lost-san-francisco-journal-21369669.php

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 25, 2026

"This week, as the Trump administration intensified its illegal oil blockade of Cuba, ExxonMobil went to the US Supreme Court to demand $1 billion from the island’s besieged government.

"The 1959 revolution struck a blow against big oil’s extractive agenda, bringing Cuba’s natural resources back into the hands of its people.

"Now, one of the world's largest fossil fuel companies is demanding ‘compensation’ — with the White House’s backing...

"There is no time to waste.

"That is why we are mobilising the Nuestra América Convoy — by air, land, and sea — to deliver critical humanitarian aid to Cuba on 21 March...

"We urgently need your help to procure food, medicines, batteries, and essential materials before we depart.

"Can you chip in $10, $25, or $50 to buy food, medicines, and materials for a population suffering under siege?"

https://nuestraamericaconvoy.org/

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 24, 2026

#RIP Éliane Radigue, French composer and exponent of musique concrète, aged 94.

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 23, 2026

Passenger boats at the port of Kinkole on the Congo River, on the outskirts of Kinshasa.

Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town

vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. "...a life plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles." https:// ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan – Anne Carson [from Antigonick, 2015] # nobots

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@ccohanlon@merveilles.town · Feb 08, 2026

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-in-search-of-home

For the first time in five years, we have been apartment-hunting. Over the past ten days, Given and I have taken it in turns to work through literally thousands of listings — filtered by location, maximum price, and minimum square metres — to find not just a suitable space but a sympathetic owner or agent who will not insist on proof of pension, employment, or banked savings to apply for tenancy.

In between, we have been dealing long-distance with various Australian social services, replacing a stolen U.S. passport, and organising Wrack's storage ashore (which might yet necessitate an early spring passage to an affordable boatyard on the mainland). I have also been reconstructing a decade-old résumé with which to hustle for regular employment, a process that has been more humbling than expected.

A few acquaintances have encouraged me to return to freelance writing and/or exhibit my photography, but what talents I once had are well past their use-by date. Besides, those who once took a professional interest in my work are either in retirement or dead. As are the organisations that employed them.

I am finding it hard to adjust to the idea of settlement, of 'fixedness'. I feel like we are crossing an arid no-man's-land towards entirely unfamiliar territory and as each day passes, my emotional disarray deepens. Several decades of relentless — and, yes, sometimes directionless — mobility are inextricably interwoven with my identity. And while my wife has always retained certainty about where her roots lie, she can't return to them.

In other words, we are both looking for a 'home' without any sense of place, or belonging. But we are still determined to find 'a stopping place' before the end of this month.

And then...stop.

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