Chris Sylla
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Families, fridge-freezers and the future.
A couple of years ago I wrote a little piece on here called the dishwasher dialogues about Caring, domestic appliances and Problematic Family Dynamics. This piece is slightly wider globally but continues the theme of domestic appliances and relationships. In this bit of scribbling it’s not so much the relationships (or the appliances themselves) that are tricky, more the circumstances. Global inequalities and structural poverty have a massive impact on all our lives, whether we ‘know it’ or not….
By Chris Sylla2 years ago in Humans
Feeling a Bit Sad: Autumn Musings.
Autumn, for her, is often a time of reflecting. Of looking back on what has been and how she felt about it then, how she feels about it now. She's trying, post Caring (and it does still need a capital letter, probably always will), mid marital crisis, to put herself at the centre of her own life. To be the heroine of her own stories and not a supporting role, no matter how vital, in someone elses!
By Chris Sylla2 years ago in History
The Dishwasher Dialogues.
The Invisible Woman. Our heroine, formally a part time perceived princess, is now a full time Family Carer. The world, especially her bit of it in the UK, is still in a state called Pandemic. Locked down, let out, locked down again, local levels of risk, traffic light systems for travel and a general deterioration of an already deteriorating health system being only part of the Pandemical Problems.
By Chris Sylla3 years ago in Families
The Tragikal Tales of the Sometimes Princess
This is based on the first two chapters of my book, a sort of autobiographicall novella published by Lulu. Copyright © 2019 by Chris Sylla. All rights reserved. Illustrated here with photos, mostly from Guinea, but a few from the Gambia and Senegal also. These are the three real West African countries which combine in the story to make the fictional one—The Hot Country/the Other Place. The people in this story, including the princess herself, are loosely based on real people but are fictional constructions, and several actual people have sometimes been ‘collated’ into one character.
By Chris Sylla6 years ago in Humans
