Topher B (Chris Bye)

Paragraph from p. 27 of Michel Foucault’s “Society Must Be Defended,” which reads, “Methodological precautions. Our object is not to analyze rule-governed and legitimate forms of power which have a single center, or to look at what their general mechanisms or its overall effects might be. Our object is, on the contrary, to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary; in other words, to understand power in its most regional forms and institutions, and especially at the points where this power transgresses the rules of right that organize and delineate it, oversteps those rules and is invested in institutions, is embodied in techniques.”

“Our object is […] to understand power by looking at its extremities, at its outer limits at the point where it becomes capillary….” – From Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended,” p. 27.

Heed Your Daemon: Rudyard Kipling on Writing It is worth remembering that anything worth doing, anything bound to earn its keep in the house of tomorrow, takes a long time, takes riding the troughs of doubt with unassailable devotion, takes b…

Heed your daemon – Rudyard Kipling on writing www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/05/r...

Eight Takes: How to Tell a Truer Love Story “Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or unwilling to revise, a draft that stands at odds with the story we wish to tell about who we are and what we want. It is a…

"Where you are tender, you speak your plural."

www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/03/e...

#haiku #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikusaturday #haiku575 #haikupoetry #haikufeels

frog pauses and looks.
mayfly scates across water.
ripples as echos.

(5-7-5) mayfly

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy “You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”

The art of choosing love over not-love – on Rumi's birthday, his immortal antidote to our human tragedy www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/r...

#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
a hummingbird zips
to a wilting blue salvia--
last sips of summer

short form:
wilting blue salvia--
a hummingbird's last sips
of summer

Please add a version if you feel like it.

mirror is not eyes.
mine is not explanation.
me is not enough.

(5-7-5) mine beyond word

Thank you John for an interesting article. I worry well-being exp. of NRPs is being lost on a gov. ideological drive rather than sensible understanding. This is not to negate exp. of 1 parent families but I would also critique the 'Fix the CMS' Report for not addressing NRP exp. @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Thank you Susan

Thank you Teresa

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

liminality,
low mist hovers serenely,.
ghostly border place.

(5-7-5) mist

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spiral dancing form,
the heart too a coiled shape.
delicate its space.

(5-7-5) felt

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old rivers course pass,
modern time & changing routes,
aquaducts serve well.

(5-7-5) changing flow

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

little morning chimes,
are so beautiful to me
dark curtains open.

(5-7-5) little garden chimes

BBC Radio 3 Unwind
Piano Focus: Supportive piano tracks to clear your mind

Now Playing
Emile Mosseri
Minari Suite

The play of the piano on this is truly beautiful ❤️ 🙏

Are the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) Destroying Lives? The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has been a topic of heated debate among parents, policymakers, and social advocates like PAPA. While its goal is to ensure children receive necessary financial supp...

www.papaorg.co.uk/post/are-the... Important & interesting views here attached. I think evidential warrant may suggest punitive language of the CMS means arguably 'punitive solutions are never enough'. Where there are suicides of NRPs (often fathers) & use of CMS, there are questions to be explored.

Parental Alienation as Child Abuse and Family Violence Stopping parental alienating behaviors is imperative for the promotion of the best interests of children and the health of families.

Parental alienation is a form of emotional child abuse.

#ParentalAlienation

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/co-p...

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#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

crow plans its flight path,
shrew lifts its head from the corn.
too late, autumn end.

(5-7-5) flight path

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #poetry #haikusaturday #dailyhaiku #Saturdayhaiku

birds chirp not ticked time,
listening in peaceful space,
spring breeze felt not passed.

the space between walls
as you open your heart
the light enters

#Photography PierPaolo
@pierpaolo.bsky.social

It would indeed be interesting to know any future considerations by the @newsnmc.bsky.social from evidence such as this.

in the crowded street
I recognise your absence
a silence too loud

#Photography Dorota
@dorotapawlak.bsky.social

#YellowThu #ColorADay #Yellow

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#September #art by #EdithHolden

How Do Mental Health Nursing Students in the United Kingdom Experience Assessment Against the NMC Generic Standards of Proficiency? A Cross‐Field Comparison In 2018 the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) moved from field-specific to generic standards of proficiency in training all four fields of nursing practice. Some educators claim these proficie...

Kenwright et al: "MH nursing students reported the lowest levels of practice confidence... barriers to achieving proficiencies...exclusion of field-specific knowledge and skills, which devalued and threatened their professional identity". #MHDeservesBetter doi.org/10.1111/inm....

How Do Mental Health Nursing Students in the United Kingdom Experience Assessment Against the NMC Generic Standards of Proficiency? A Cross‐Field Comparison In 2018 the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) moved from field-specific to generic standards of proficiency in training all four fields of nursing practice. Some educators claim these proficie....

How Do Mental Health Nursing Students in the United Kingdom Experience Assessment Against the NMC Generic Standards of Proficiency? A Cross‐Field Comparison -Kenwright, McCrorie, Bye, Awty, Doherty & Cromar-Hayes -2025- IntJ of MH Nursing -Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#haikupoetry #haikupoem #haiku #Sundayhaiku

just one quiet night,
moonlight shines far across docks.
much merry making.

bird eye city view.
calm across traveled water,
bird looks far to sea.

distant middle isle,
from snaefell all four countries.
sea of manannan.

(5-7-5) isle of Man

#haikupoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikupoem #575haiku #haikuwriter #micropoetry #haikumicropoetry #haikupoetry #poetry #haiku #dailyhaiku #haikuSunday #Sundayhaiku

the intrepid lines,
make their way along paper.
crooked dots so still.

(5-7-5) lines (Zen - Birmingham)

Good morning to everyone in the #earlyrisersclub - it’s a quiet start to my Sunday, very peaceful - this week’s blog has been posted tonywarne.blogspot.com/2025/09/maki... which I hope you enjoy reading- wishing everyone an uplifting and relaxing day