Inspiration point (IP)
This week's IP is a bit daft. Make up a word. There’s a grand tradition of nonce-words, Shakespeare was a master of them. A nonce word is for an occasion where you need a new word, just for now – or ‘for the nonce’. Anyway, make one up, write something containing it, about it, defining it or saying why you/we need it. Whatever you like. Good luck with your nonce-sence.
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Convenient(?) Forgettery!
‘Remember when …’ “Don’t bring that up again , Mum!” ‘I’m not about once more to …
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The Bells of Hell (IP)
The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling, For you but not for me. And the little devils how they sing-a-ling-a-ling, For you but not for me. Oh death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling, Oh grave thy victory? The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling, For you but not for me.
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Remembering isn't enough ...
My paternal grandfather fought in World War I. He lost a leg. My dad, a lifelong story teller, spoke, and wrote (in his own unpublished memoir),...
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Mesopotamia
fragments from the past will not join to make a memory we live in the disconnect but for a moment you are there in a sepia photograph with Felix who...
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Remembrance Sunday and Sunday's Weekly Remembrance
We remember loss in war, suffering of those who bore much, in order to restore freedom for the many more … Every Sunday we remember him whose love fills us with wonder,
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