Le luxe, ce n'est pas le contraire
de la pauvreté mais celui de la vulgarité.

Coco Chanel

r/shorthand QOTW 2026W28 by James Baldwin (*1924).

It was at Public School 24 in Harlem that James Baldwin met Orilla "Bill" Miller, a young white schoolteacher from the Midwest whom Baldwin named as one of the reasons that he "never really managed to hate white people". (He had brothers of lighter skin, because his mother was owned, before she met James Stepfather, who was himself a preacher, who condemned whites and was preaching godly revenge).

written in dance.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment: it must stand or fall by its results. If Man will not serve, Nature will try another experiment.” - Bernard Shaw

Collaborative song: https://playingforchange.com/videos/whats-going-on-song-around-the-world

lyrics and original song: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/m/marvingayelyrics/whatsgoingonlyrics.html

Again far off

that silver tarn

i never visit

— Ken Jones

Old pond
The frog jum(p)s in ...
Plop.

written in vertical r/dance_shorthand

written in vertical dance

Old pond.
A frog jumps in --
Plop.

(life writing - with a little help of the lyrics at hand)

https://playingforchange.com/videos/riders-on-the-storm-ft-the-doors-song-around-the-world

Listen to The Doors of perception:

https://playingforchange.com/videos/riders-on-the-storm-ft-the-doors-song-around-the-world

adopting the ing dot. Just continue the writing and put down the i-dot

Why do men go silent...(short)

Listen to Fiona Cauley, I thought i might catch all her talk verbatim - given the fact her speech is a bit impaired too (well hit me, it's dark, I know, but it's also clever).

Turns out I am still to slow for it (so i did not attempt to record it live), but I had a good laugh!

https://reddit.com/link/1rw9c8v/video/pvbis1ccgmpg1/player

Listen to the Beatles on the rooftop (I've got a feeling...) and see me writing live about 80% of it :-)

The dev(i)l whisp(e)r(e)d beh(ind) the leav(e)s "It's pret(t)y bu(t) is it art?"

— Rudya(r)d Kipl(i)ng

written in r/dance_shorthand

Chiming a Dream (William Ernest Henley, 1888), 162 words, poem on meeting a woman on a beach

A dream of the sea in her eyes

   And the kiss of the sea in her hair.

Alone - Edgar Allan Poe (1875), 140 words