October | 2025 | Perfect Path
10 posts published by Lloyd Davis during October 2025| Perfect Path
I spent a couple of summers in the early eighties selling ice cream, chatting up the odd grockle and looking out over the sea to Portland. The other stream that I take to when I need to calm down a bit is NASA’s HD Views from the International Space Station Recent conversations about “the media”, … Continue reading Thursday, 16th October 2025→| Perfect Path
I'm taking part in a reading group for "Hospicing Modernity" with a particular focus on how the messages in that book might apply to churches and spiritual community. We're gathering once a month and the meetings are confidential (I don't think we've even agreed on using the Chatham House rule) but I'm only going to … Continue reading Wednesday, 15th October 2025→| Perfect Path
I'm glad to see that at least Dave B is reading this nonsense. I didn't get a pingback, though Dave, I saw it because I read your post via RSS. Is that deliberate? I don't remember how these things work. Maybe it's an artefact of the way your microposts are aggregated? Anyway. I agree with the … Continue reading Monday, 13th October 2025→| Perfect Path
I just sat for five minutes waiting for a call to start that isn't scheduled for another hour. That's the kind of me I've woken up with today! Happity Friday! Still pondering and burbling about rebooting/regrowing and this thing that to some is a living culture, to some is a media ecosystem, and to others … Continue reading Friday, 10th October 2025→| Perfect Path
I realised today that there's a lot of overlap between "Rebooting the Blogosphere" and "Regrowing a Living Culture". The Coffee Mornings that I'm doing at the moment have that latter tag line and the question is coming up for me of how to regrow living culture online as well as off. As a very bare … Continue reading Wednesday, 8th October 2025→| Perfect Path
I was just introduced to this use of the word 'palaver' to mean (in Africa) a way of bringing together a local community to creating social links and sometimes for conflict resolution. The notable characteristic of it being a meeting where everyone has a voice but is not obliged to tie their contribution up neatly … Continue reading Tuesday, 7th October 2025→| Perfect Path
Just saw an invitation to an Open Space “How do we protect and strengthen democracy in Europe?” My mind went immediately to how to protect democracy from those who will use elected office to make sure that democracy isn’t available any more. It’s not a simple thing. And that’s what makes it a good question … Continue reading Monday, 6th October 2025→| Perfect Path
Another Coffee Morning today. So much in it. I'd love to write a report, but it's all still whirring around in my head. The first woman to become Archbish of Canterblobs, recurrent references to Bob Dylan, yin and yang and the serenity prayer, substack isn't just problematic because of politics and them hassling you to … Continue reading Friday, 3rd October 2025→| Perfect Path
I’m not using it much, but a small step this week was resurrecting my presence on mastodon. I’m here now – @lloyddavis@mastodon.social – this blog also has ActivityPub enab…| Perfect Path
I’ll be thinking about this “Rebooting the Blogosphere” idea for a while. Interesting that the provocation for this thinking is FB “exile” – it reminds me of the energy that gets released whenever a platform goes down or otherwise goes awry – the energy of “I’ve got to find an outlet for these impulses in … Continue reading Wednesday, 1st October 2025→| Perfect Path
Stephanie Booth has written a really useful three-part series on "Rebooting The Blogosphere" (activities | interaction | integration) – check it out. I identify with a lot of the reflections and ways of thinking about writing in public that Steph's pulled together. I also feel the enormity of it as a project – we've strayed so … Continue reading Tuesday, 30th September 2025→| Perfect Path
I’d done a day’s work before breakfast this morning. Thanks Geena! I have to apologise for the LinkedIn-esque final remarks, after a lifetime of thought-leadership and lessons-learned reviews, I just can’t help myself. Investigations continue, I may have to remove this post later subject to legal action by the accused and her lawyer.| Perfect Path
I have recurring frustration with the state of the web. I still have a utopian dream and attachment to people using open tools rather than the (semi-)closed platforms to publish their work and knowledge and thinking. On one level, this is a purely selfish desire. I would rather have one place to go to see … Continue reading Monday, 29th September 2025→| Perfect Path
First morning with the heating on (min temperatures overnight are around 7 or 8ºC). It feels like magic. I think it's the memory of when we first moved to a house with central heating (on November 5th 1975). It felt like real luxury, not to wake up under blankets in a cold room, having to … Continue reading Wednesday, 24th September 2025→| Perfect Path
In bizarrely synchronistic news, I was reminded last night of the Librivox project, my first (and only) contribution to which, I published here twenty years ago tomorrow… I came across it aga…| Perfect Path
I spent yesterday back at Conway Hall. I'm trying to think of other things I've done there other than Interesting (which I helped Russell with for the first three years and which I then attended a couple of times?) There was The Story that Matt Locke did. I feel like there must be other things … Continue reading Friday, 12th September 2025→| Perfect Path
Today would have been my Dad’s 88th birthday (two fat ladies – 88!). He was 2 years old when WW2 started. When I was 2 (and three quarters) it was his 30th birthday and I recently found a recording of him and me “talking” on that day. If I can find it again easily (it’s … Continue reading Wednesday, 3rd September→| Perfect Path
Overheard in a medical setting: “Have you brought a urine sample?” “No, I couldn’t because I don’t have a wotsit” me: eyes widening… and trying not to look…| Perfect Path
Pinch, punch, first of the month (no returns!) I picked this up when I went to see the memorial to Nick at St Bride’s a couple of months ago. It has sat on my desk since then and this morning…| Perfect Path
Oof! This is the question that formed the basis of yesterday's "Unreasonable Connection". It's a lot more direct than I heard it in the room! The breakout group that I was part of, talked mostly about running events and dealing with such events "not working" in some way – usually evidenced by the feeling that … Continue reading What performative gestures are killing real community in your space?→| Perfect Path
On Friday, it’ll be 34 years since I first became a father. It’s the role I’ve played most consistently (if not always brilliantly) in this lifetime. Since then that t…| Perfect Path
After breakfast, but before coffee, I went up the garden to see whether we have a couple of folding chairs in the kind of shed/cupboard thing that's on level 3. Our garden is cut into a steep hill. If you count our downstairs as level 0 then my studio is on level 1 and it … Continue reading Wandering into the web→| Perfect Path
What does it mean to gather around "regrowing a living culture"? I've been using that phrase to talk about the monthly coffee mornings I'm doing in London and I thought it might be worth going back to where I picked the phrase up. Late in 2023, my friends Dougald and Anna ran a course with … Continue reading Coffee Mornings and “regrowing a living culture”→| Perfect Path
I need to blog more. I need to write more, but I also need to release more and this is the best place I have for doing that. I caught myself giving someone feedback on their work which was really an expression of my frustration with not feeling productive myself. It's not enough to apologise … Continue reading Tuesday, 6th May 2025→| Perfect Path
We did it again on Friday morning. Sorry if you wanted to come but didn’t see a reminder. It seems (to me) to be working, whatever it is and whatever it’s supposed to be for. I realised today for …| Perfect Path
