‘Modelling Lucy’………From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……
by Bernie Bell - 08:09 on 26 March 2025
"Modelling Lucy and Yak Apron
Why, you may ask, am I wearing a Lucy and Yak apron? Further, you may wonder, as I did, who even are Lucy and Yak? I was wearing it when the District Nurse came on Friday to change my leg bags and she went, ‘Ooh, Lucy and Yak! I approve!’
I’m wearing it because my dear step-daughter Victoria gave it to me for my birthday. I wanted a large apron because my grip is going, and my hands are shaking, and I’m tired of spilling food down my ample belly. I also think that it gives me an artisanal air, and that people who come to the door might, if only for a moment, think I’m making sourdough or somesuch.
Last Monday, my oncologist urged me to get on with finishing The Breaking Wave. In the past, it’s been editors who’ve been encouraging me to get over the line. At least my oncologist hasn’t sent me a solicitor’s letter.
I wrote about 1500 words today. If I can keep it at that rate, I should be done by June. God willing.
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband
by Tyson Yunkaporta
“You can’t use magic or make magic; you can only swim with its currents, occasionally choosing which stream will take you.”
Traveling through time, in our science fiction imaginations, is often about going back through history or forward into the future. But how might we slip between the cracks of the linear, and maintain connection across time?
In this experiential essay, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of both linear time and storytelling with “love magic”—a real and connective substance that transcends time and space and flows within relations and systems. Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson writes that love magic is “adaptive and emergent, changing with the elliptical orbits of our relation”; a force that cannot be bent to human will or weaponized. Thus, he urges us to work with it—to throw “spears at the arrow of time,” to flow with love magic, offsetting the greed, extraction, and banditry that is eating the world.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-time-travelers-wifes-husband/
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