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110 Entries

An Introduction Annual Leave Armchair 41 "Paimio" The Art of Wrapping Oneself Ascensional Happiness Balcony Body Blocks Breaks Camel hair Camel hair blanket Capri Battery Carved by Light Cinematic Convalescence A Clearing Compassionate Attention (After Yvonne Rainer) Consciousness of Mist The Convalescent 1924-5 The Convalescent 1960 Convalescents and Lizards Craft of Convalescence, New Brewery Arts, 2022 Crisis as Structure The Darkness of Sheltered Existence Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health Dom and Täschhorn Drawing the line of the sun Dreams of Sleep Drinking the Landscape Early Mornings École de plein air de Suresnes Enduring Time, an essay Featherbed Felt Felt and Fat Gaps A gentle signature in the art of Hannah Leighton-Boyce The gentleness of convalescence George Bodington Grass, sun and nothing besides (Merv's favourite place) Halcyonian Calm Heliotherapy Hibernation Holding (Hulkkonen & Colley) Holding Breath Holding Environment (Donald Winnicott) Hortophilia Idleness Incomprehensibility (to creep beneath the surface meaning of words) Infection Intervals (time without qualities) Intoxications from Green Tea Inventory (Rousseau’s Herbarium) Irenic Knowledge The Look of the World Altered by Illness Lounge Chair Lying in the Sun The Magic Mountain Medical Sheepskin Moods of the Keenest Appetency Neutral Awakening Open Air School Openings for the Drift of Consciousness The Opposite of Work Our Morning Impressions Paimio Sanatorium (a medical instrument) Panorama Piz Kesch Positions to aid breathing The present instant Prison/ Sanatorium/ Monastery Pure and Buoyant Mood of Convalescing Life (On the works and lives of Robert Walser) Ready to do something Ready to do something (Inari Hulkkonen) Recently Come Back from the Shades of Death Recline Recovery. A brief interview with Dr. Gavin Francis Responsibility Shelved Retreat Reverie The Revivifying Carelessness of Sleep Rhiwbina Open Air School Rhythm Robert Koch Roland Barthes (Look out Mountain, Look out Sea), an essay Sanatoria and Sunlight, Dr R A Hobday. Sanatorium Saranac Lake Sick Pay Silent basin Sitio Slack Time Sleep Slow and Vacant Time Solar geometry A still life The Sun Cure Sunbeam Sunshine Taking Turns (Inari Hulkkonen) "Taking Turns" This is the first time in my life I had such a wonderful rest To float To float with the sticks on the stream To Look at Life with a Somewhat Ghostly Air Travels to Italy Trudeau Sanatorium Verbena officinalis Verborgen/Geborgen Waldschule Weighted Blanket Zonnestraal

Ready to do something

We lay in hammocks, we fished, we slept and after a week we were ready to do something.

Joan Didion, ‘Guaymas, Sonora’, Slouching Towards Bethlehem 1968.

See also:

Rhythm
The Darkness of Sheltered Existence
"Taking Turns"