Comments on: Desire Paths Of The East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 25 May 2017 13:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: CElaine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151164 Thu, 25 May 2017 13:36:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151164 I love the expression “desire paths/lignes de désir”! It’s the first time I’ve heard it and I intend to use it every chance I get.

Your posts never fail to enlighten me. Thank you.

]]> By: murray batley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151088 Wed, 24 May 2017 22:39:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151088 We do love a wiggle

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151055 Wed, 24 May 2017 17:53:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151055 Thank you for reminding us, like Robert Frost, of the delight in taking the path “less obvious.” Your photos, a lovely prompting to look out for desire paths along our way…

]]> By: Katya https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151034 Wed, 24 May 2017 15:25:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151034 This prompts me to wonder, rather humorously, whether paths off the path, be they short cuts or deviant routes toward adventure, don’t eventually become byways as pedestrian as those they seek to outwit.

]]> By: T. O. Clark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151033 Wed, 24 May 2017 15:13:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151033 I am continually inspired and educated by your daily musings. What a wonderful post.
Thank you!

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1151018 Wed, 24 May 2017 13:29:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1151018 I’ve never heard the description ‘desire path’ before and found this post so appealing. I immediately thought of a desire path I took on way to work for many years, it has set me thinking of the many people who preceded me on this short cut – a lovely subject GA.

]]> By: Lucy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1150997 Wed, 24 May 2017 10:42:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1150997 A brilliant post. The human spirit that can never be contained and will always be wandering. Or taking a more practical route.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1150996 Wed, 24 May 2017 10:35:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1150996 Wonderful post! In the midst of such beautiful language, I most humbly add the term
“we” in the US might use for such a path………”the short cut”.

Toasting the gentle author — who has mastered the art of “noticing”.
And we are the daily benefactors.
Most appreciated!

]]> By: Alex Josephy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1150988 Wed, 24 May 2017 08:38:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1150988 Dear Gentle Author,
I love this post. So evocative and thought-provoking.
I hope you won’t mind that on a course in Found Poetry, I have adapted some of your words, erased others, to create an ‘erasure poem’, trying to catch a little of the the nature of the paths in the form of the poem (I’m not sure if its meandering layout will come across in this comment box though! It should drift across the page quite randomly).

who can resist
meandering the dusty track
of liberation
those pathways eroded by footfall
green spaces of the East End
scored by them
where the given paths fail
collective will
inscribed upon the landscape
over and over
like a popular rhyme

Actually of course, what you’ve written is already a poem, so this is just a small tribute to it.

]]> By: Orit Friedland https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/24/desire-paths-of-the-east-end/#comment-1150986 Wed, 24 May 2017 08:07:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157835#comment-1150986 Dear GA, I love all your stories, but this one is such a perfect gem I just had to comment – the thoughtful text, the wonderful photos and the poignant captions. Thank you for this loving and lovely study of human nature.
Love, O in TLV.

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