‘One Disc To Rule Them’……..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:22 on 13 February 2025
“One disc to rule them
I’d forgotten what fun it is to write a novel. It’s the making up of stuff that is an unalloyed delight. One of my characters, Maud, is drawing up her Desert Island Discs list, a list which will have its pay-off right at the end of the Breaking Wave.
As a dinner party game, another of the characters comes up with what has always seemed to me the missing bit of the puzzle - not, what disc would you rescue from the waves, but which album would you take, if you could only take one?
This occurred to me last week, when I was thinking about this very question. There are at least 20 major speaking parts in the Breaking Wave; and all of them, if they decide to join in the game, will choose albums I love. Amateurish of me really, but what are you going to do?
The whole idea came to me when I was listening to ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ last week. Is it better that ‘Blue’? ‘Court and Spark’? Who can say? Me. I can say. It’s Joni’s best album, and I’m sending one of my imaginary characters to an imaginary recording of the show that sends people off to an imaginary Desert Island, based on stuff I love. So, yeah, ‘Hissing of Summer Lawns.’ It’ll be something different next week, obvs.
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My variation on this theme is…… https://theorkneynews.scot/.../someone-who-could-explain.../
If I had to pick just one? Impossible – too many factors come into the equation. It’s fun to think about it though.
And there’s also……. who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with? Which, frankly, doesn’t bear thinking about – too many truly horrific contenders.
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
A Conversation with Suzanne Simard
In this archive conversation, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard speaks about her life’s work exploring tree intelligence and relationships, and her most recent research on Mother Trees—the oldest trees in the forest—and their astounding ability to recognize and nourish their own kin. Stepping outside of scientific precepts towards a vernacular that acknowledges connection—“mother,” “children,” “grandfather”—she delves further into the intricate web of relationships that Western systems of knowledge are only beginning to understand, and wonders what lessons these trees can teach us about healing our separation from the Earth. “
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