Perfect Path
93 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -I'm the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities, if you'd like some help from me feel free to e-mail me: Lloyd dot Davis at Gmail dot Com or call +44 (0)79191 82825
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Drawn Without Looking: Hard Art
May 28, 2024 13:53Since the end of 2022, I’ve been part of this thing called Hard Art, a collective working on cultural responses to all the things we’re facing right now, but particularly various climate-related ugh-nesses. Over the last year, as a kind of ice-breaker, people have made blind contour line portraits in pairs and then amazing artist/musician … Continue reading Drawn Without Looking: Hard Art →
Personal and Communal Responsibility
May 28, 2024 12:24Citations galore needed but… Keir Starmer is quoted as saying there’s an “anti-politics mood” at the moment (as we move towards a General Election in the UK). I don’t believe there’s an anti-politics mood, but I understand why professional politicians see it like that, because they believe that politics is only what politicians and activists … Continue reading Personal and Communal Responsibility →
Peeling back the Metalabel
February 08, 2024 17:14Fingers crossed that metalabel can help solve the big problem in creative collaboration.
Wednesday, 13th December 2023
December 13, 2023 17:54On. Those. Trays. # The Chamberlain Memorial and Birmingham Town Hall, from a car park between Chamberlain Square and Gt Charles St, showing the partly demolished buildings believed to be the Mason Science College (later to be the site of the 1970s Central Library) Tony Davis, 1964, I think. # I spent a little time … Continue reading Wednesday, 13th December 2023 →
Tuesday, 12th December 2023
December 12, 2023 16:53I like this format because it reminds me of primary school, where the first thing you had to do was write today’s date at the top of the page. # Today I learned that Stanley Baxter is a) still alive at 97 and b) out of the closet since 2020. # A reminder that the … Continue reading Tuesday, 12th December 2023 →
Weeknote 23/49
December 11, 2023 12:10Ah me, it’s week 49. # I usually write *something* at the end of the week, but rarely (if ever) manage to publish it. For me, writing is thinking more than it is anything else and giving my thoughts on the week an extra polish in order to share them is usually too much effort. … Continue reading Weeknote 23/49 →
Thursday, 23rd November 2023
November 23, 2023 16:46LXI’ve always known that the JFK/Doctor Who 60th anniversaries would mark the 13-month countdown to my own encounter with 2x2x3x5. But it really started last Christmas when I was in the midst of whatever non-Covid knock-out virus that had entered me and I shuddered as I turned 58. 59 was a year a way and … Continue reading Thursday, 23rd November 2023 →
Wednesday, 22nd November 2023
November 22, 2023 15:5960 years ago today, my parents (who were engaged to be married) were taking the bus to get into town and had to change by the cricket ground at Edgbaston. That was when they heard the news from Dallas – on a street, in a crowd of people waiting for their bus on a Friday … Continue reading Wednesday, 22nd November 2023 →
Tuesday, 21st November 2023
November 21, 2023 21:38Yesterday, I said in a team meeting that I needed to be working out in the open more. Very soon after, I got an invitation to go to a thing tonight, coincidentally featuring someone who is associated with Black Elephant. Fun. But really working out loud or working in the open is not restricted to … Continue reading Tuesday, 21st November 2023 →
Daynote 2023-11-20
November 20, 2023 15:19I can’t believe it’s four years since we went to Iceland and then I came back and started work in the church. When people say “We’ve had enough of the madness” I hope that’s true, but I know that I’ve said it about my own odd choices and divergences and it takes longer than we … Continue reading Daynote 2023-11-20 →
Lloyd’s Black Elephant parade: “On Golden Sands”
September 14, 2023 17:16I’ve recently started working with Black Elephant, which is a movement dedicated to building connection through more open, honest conversations among truly diverse groups of people. I believe that this kind of connection, and the sense of belonging that can come from it, should be available to everyone. The basic unit of our work is … Continue reading Lloyd’s Black Elephant parade: “On Golden Sands” →
Who do I know in…?
September 11, 2023 10:46How do you keep track of where the people you know are, right now?
Looking through a microsolidarity lens
August 30, 2023 16:53I’ve found Rich Bartlett’s concept of microsolidarity really useful since I saw it a couple of years ago. It’s gotten complex fast, but the basic stuff that “groups of different sizes are good for different things” chimes with my experience of Tuttle and of other social art and community building practices and projects. I think … Continue reading Looking through a microsolidarity lens →
The Black Elephant circles back
August 29, 2023 16:32You might remember a little piece I shared a few weeks ago about the idea of Black Elephants. Well, part of my re-ignited interest was in watching how some folk had taken the idea and the name and made a thing out of it. And now I’m going to work for them! First off, I … Continue reading The Black Elephant circles back →
What was all that about then?
July 10, 2023 14:11It’s two weeks now since I finished my job as Community Worker at the local United Reformed Church and I’ve had some time to think through what I think about the last three and a half years of practicing community in an explicitly spiritual context – that’s how, when I started, I set my own … Continue reading What was all that about then? →
The return of the Black Elephant
June 29, 2023 10:46I’ve been reminded by Dougald in the comments of his latest newsletter that I did a bad thing. I posted some writing on Facebook that really should have been on the open web. I remember writing it, on 24 April 2019 – we were having new carpets fitted – but I don’t know why it … Continue reading The return of the Black Elephant →
Thursday, May 25th 2023
May 25, 2023 15:27I woke up with an “excessive-certainty” hangover – it comes from hanging out with people who seem absolutely sure of their rightness and are very reluctant to consider theories other than their own. The usual disclaimers about “people” apply – namely “no, not all people, obvs” and “yeah I’m a people too”. It can sometimes … Continue reading Thursday, May 25th 2023 →
Friday, May 12th 2023
May 12, 2023 12:49I just posted the following on FB and remembered that I went looking because I was inspired by old blog posts and so really I ought to be making new blog posts out of such stuff rather than adding to the Zuckoverse (I left the FB identity links in tho). Encouraged by Dean I went … Continue reading Friday, May 12th 2023 →
Wednesday, May 3rd 2023
May 03, 2023 21:23I forget how much of a put off it can be for me to write here, if I think I have to have a title to pull it all together. It’s one of the ways we ruined the blogosphere (with a lot of help from Google Reader imho) by making tools that insisted on having … Continue reading Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 →
The Climate Crisis Will Be Televised Trivially
March 10, 2023 18:34We got a call just after 10:30am on Wednesday from ITN saying that they had a film crew in Guildford reporting on the overnight snow and wondering whether they could come and film at our Warm Hub. In the late summer, you know when we had a change of monarch and several prime ministers and … Continue reading The Climate Crisis Will Be Televised Trivially →
At Work In The Ruins, Dougald Hine, 2023
March 09, 2023 17:04This week, I’ve finished reading Dougald’s excellent book. (also on Audible, read by the author). I don’t really do book reviews – this is more some initial notes after reading. The book’s subtitle is “Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies” so yeah, “all the *other* … Continue reading At Work In The Ruins, Dougald Hine, 2023 →
Half A Pound Of Monkeybread (2023)
February 01, 2023 19:21So first, here it is, the thing I was talking about yesterday: But I feel I should say something more about it than “here it is”. Perhaps where it came from, how it came to be. And as usual where to start that story is hard to pin down. In terms of writing the words, … Continue reading Half A Pound Of Monkeybread (2023) →
Release Day
January 31, 2023 17:43I’m doing something unusual for me tomorrow. I’m releasing some musical recordings that I’ve been working on since the beginning of November. The main oddity in all of that is that I gave myself a release date ahead of time and have finished the work a couple of days ahead of it. My custom has … Continue reading Release Day →
Opening Space – Invitations
January 27, 2023 17:45The crafting of an Open Space invitation will be iterative. I like to have an overarching single question as the title of the event. How broad it is does depend on the subject and also how big the gathering is – invitations stumble when their scope is too wide or abstract or else too narrowly … Continue reading Opening Space – Invitations →
What even *is* an idea?
September 01, 2022 07:20David Lynch talks about ideas as fish. He says if you sit still and wait and are open to catching one, they’ll just pop into your consciousness, so you right them down and then others come and join it and you write them down too and then you can express them in whatever way seems … Continue reading What even *is* an idea? →
Simple body maintenance things
August 31, 2022 08:41One of the things they tried to instill in us at drama school was the idea that if you’re going to be someone who creates through performance or just your presence in the world, some exercise first thing is really good for you. This was too hard a pill for me to swallow even when … Continue reading Simple body maintenance things →
For the ❤️ of Guildford
April 26, 2022 09:33I’ll be opening space, as part of my work with Guildford United Reformed Church, on 14th May, for the question: “What are we going to do to nurture and nourish the spirit of Community in Guildford?” There’s a booking page with the full invitation, but here’s a little video version I did: I’ve called it … Continue reading For the ❤️ of Guildford →
Tony’s Memorial (day 2? or 4?)
September 20, 2021 20:49It was good to give myself a break over the weekend even if it means I’m thinking about trivial things like day numbering… Having chosen this topic, it was easier for me to tidy up the most immediate stuff around my desk, making a “Tony” box and putting everything else away. But that did also … Continue reading Tony’s Memorial (day 2? or 4?) →
Family History Project Day 1 of 28
September 17, 2021 22:10Today was a thinking day. Starting a new project. Well, choosing a new project first of all. Last weekend I went through the cards I’ve been using for the last 28 days and wrote down what project idea I had for each of them. Just the first thing off the top of my head. Today … Continue reading Family History Project Day 1 of 28 →
Share Something Every Day – Community From What’s Lying Around
September 16, 2021 18:40Again, building connections between people through social objects. Social objects that are things or ideas that are sitting around waiting for someone to go “oh this is interesting” and someone else to go “yes I think so too” because that’s the beginning of a new relationship and lots of those together make a community. That’s … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Community From What’s Lying Around →
Share Something Every Day – Community (and Wife)
September 15, 2021 18:15A gentle day at work today. I was a bit tired after going to London last night. The Sunflower Café group are getting to know each other better and relaxing a little. They’re excited about the music group that we’ll be restarting soon. We found an Order of Service from the opening of the building … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Community (and Wife) →
Share Something Every Day – Coding
September 14, 2021 22:02I pulled the coding card again today and carried on working on automating my general knowledge management workflow, basically how I take notes, organise ideas about things that I’ve read or written in the past and turn them into something new. Today this involved fiddling again with Drafts to do something that’s basically a mail … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Coding →
Share Sg–ething Every Day – Sunday–R Coding Variousing Arou
September 14, 2021 22:02I pulled the coding card again today and carried on working on automating my general knowledge management workflow, basically how I take notes, organise ideas about things that I’ve read or written in the past and turn them into something new. Today this involved fiddling again with Drafts to do something that’s basically a mail … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Coding →
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September 14, 2021 22:02I pulled the coding card again today and carried on working on automating my general knowledge management workflow, basically how I take notes, organise ideas about things that I’ve read or written in the past and turn them into something new. Today this involved fiddling again with Drafts to do something that’s basically a mail … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Coding →
Share Sg–ething Every Day – Sunday–R Coding Various
September 13, 2021 22:47First thing is that 13th September is my blogiversary. It’s now seventeen years since I bit the bullet and committed to keeping a weblog at https://perfectpath.co.uk and not deleting it. The main things I thought about this today were how much stuff there is in here and how I’ve never quite achieved the goal I … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Various →
Share Something Every Day – Various
September 13, 2021 22:47First thing is that 13th September is my blogiversary. It’s now seventeen years since I bit the bullet and committed to keeping a weblog at https://perfectpath.co.uk and not deleting it. The main things I thought about this today were how much stuff there is in here and how I’ve never quite achieved the goal I … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Various →
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September 13, 2021 22:47First thing is that 13th September is my blogiversary. It’s now seventeen years since I bit the bullet and committed to keeping a weblog at https://perfectpath.co.uk and not deleting it. The main things I thought about this today were how much stuff there is in here and how I’ve never quite achieved the goal I … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Various →
Share Something Every Day – Sunday Review
September 12, 2021 21:39I overdid it this week. I found that adding in exercise, more water and better sleep this week worked well on my ADHD, but left me vulnerable to doing too much. It all needs to be balanced with rest outside of sleeping at night. Yes it’s all common sense. No I still am not able … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Sunday Review →
Share Something Every Day – Sunday Reviewd Wife)s Lyi Community
September 09, 2021 18:52I put today’s gig in the book late in November 2019. Just after a holiday in Iceland, my last flight and last trip out of the country. It came out of one of those random conversations on Twitter – someone said something like “do I know anyone who’s a busker?” to which friends of friends … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Music/Performance →
Share Something Every Day – Music/Performance
September 09, 2021 18:52I put today’s gig in the book late in November 2019. Just after a holiday in Iceland, my last flight and last trip out of the country. It came out of one of those random conversations on Twitter – someone said something like “do I know anyone who’s a busker?” to which friends of friends … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Music/Performance →
Share Something Every Day
September 08, 2021 18:07Community Today I learned that there are (at least) two model railway societies in Guildford. The one that most people seem to know about is the Guildford Model Engineering Society who have a base in Stoke Park. They have 3½, 5 and 7¼ inch gauge passenger railways and have open days throughout the year. I … Continue reading Share Something Every Day →
Share Something Every Day – Community
September 07, 2021 16:53When I wrote my review of the week on Sunday, I forgot something that I’d meant to say. I regularly forget that making Community is something that I probably work on every day. If I’m not actively doing it, I’m thinking about it. I’m writing about it or writing something that will help people connect … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Community →
Share something every day – weekly review
September 05, 2021 21:49Today was my wedding anniversary – we walked over to Watt’s Gallery along the North Down’s Way and had lunch. I was glad to see my friend Debbie Davies’s artwork “Belonging” is still hanging in one of the oak trees outside. It looked great today against the blue of the sky and the green trees, … Continue reading Share something every day – weekly review →
Share Something Every Day – Coding 002
September 04, 2021 19:31I went for a nice long walk this morning, about 5 miles, before breakfast. It was warmer than it has been lately but still cloudy. It’s supposed to get warmer this week. It was a good space to think about things – especially my desire to make some very simple automation for my blogging. Everything … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Coding 002 →
Share Something Every Day – Craft 002
September 03, 2021 18:49Back to the candles I went for a run this morning, because I was reminded, by a slight deterioration in my mental health, that I need to do physical and manual work as much as thinking and making digital artefacts. So I just gave myself to whittling down some of these candles, chipping a bit … Continue reading Share Something Every Day – Craft 002 →
Make Something Every Day – Coding 001
September 01, 2021 18:33Today, I was more gentle with myself. I pulled “coding”. Now I definitely don’t have any coding projects all set up and ready to go. But I am interested in how to automate my workflow for blogging on Hive. The process for wordpress is straightforward and handled by lots of different clients. I currently post … Continue reading Make Something Every Day – Coding 001 →
Make Something Every Day – FAIL 001 (was Podcast)
August 31, 2021 18:44It was bound to happen sooner or later. My heart kind of sank when I saw that I’d drawn “podcast” today. I haven’t made a podcast for quite a while and the reason for that doesn’t seem to be that I haven’t given myself time to do it. Because today, I gave myself the whole … Continue reading Make Something Every Day – FAIL 001 (was Podcast) →
Make Something Every Day – Film 001
August 30, 2021 20:49I pulled “Film”. That’s tricky – make a film, on a Bank Holiday Monday… starting….. now! My first reaction was to cheat it, by applying it to all of the actual bits of film that I have lying around in various states of processing. One way of looking at this way of working (I hesitate … Continue reading Make Something Every Day – Film 001 →
review – week 1 of making every day
August 29, 2021 19:33On Sundays I’m going to review the week past. I’ve done 9 days of making something every day. Woohoo! The formatting of this post is wonky and shoddy because it’s 8.30pm on Sunday and I haven’t made the dinner yet and I’m going to get yelled at. what i set out to do (having written … Continue reading review – week 1 of making every day →