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Any Hard Task
It was still an up-hill pull with determined will to fully fulfil the task undertaken and reach the top not stop or flop or trip or slip or sleep,...
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Scorning the warning
‘Put Micaiah in the prison.’ (For his warning Ahab spurned.) ‘Give him only bread and water, until safely I’ve returned.’ …
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The Age of Discovery
From new-born breath ’til still of death: Hearing sounds and conversation, gazing round in exploration … mouth contortions … life-long, look and think …
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His full glory seen soon
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] In a manger, glory veiled; glimpses of his power revealed as he taught and healed, began life and death’s...
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The Old and the Young
Her Daddy playing music upon his violin for older folk in Home of Care … and gently tap their feet and smile remembering past days … she scampered, pirouetted round to her Daddy’s latest tune. …‘Can we ask the dancing girl again to visit us?!
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Concerning the 'eye contact
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2019
Concerning the 'eye contact thing' you commented to Di about – Do you think part of the problem may be often the impression being given that it means longer eye-contact than is really right or necessary. I know it can be painful for those with...
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Sobering and sad history. It
Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2019
Sobering and sad history. It is useful sometimes to remember dictators and movements that seemed unconquerable and highly feared, and now are more or less forgotten.. Names come to mind even from my own lifetime.
Only One King will rule...
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Aren't they difficult to
Posted on Sun, 24 Feb 2019
Aren't they difficult to remove? I once posted a little verse, with the other problem they lead to!
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Very perceptive. I guess the
Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2019
Very perceptive. I guess the bullies sadly are often really lonely insecure people, and making matters worse for themselves.
Only those who won’t fight back Are suitable as prey. and those who show they're hurt by it?
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Thank you, Insert. I think it
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019
Thank you, Insert. I think it is the young elms we see now, in hedgrows. I think the bark has to be a certain thickness for the beetle to get in and cause trouble, so there are a lot of fairly short elms around especially in hedges, certainly in...
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I've been working on a poem
Posted on Sun, 17 Feb 2019
I've been working on a poem from the same idea, Graham, but not copying!
I was interested in your points at the end about causing offence by staring etc. Difficult for those struggling to understand social cues. I remember my son (whio had...
Read full commentPosted in Wot You Lookin' At?(The Eyes Have It)
All schoolkids like to belong
Posted on Wed, 13 Feb 2019
All schoolkids like to belong to some 'group', though maybe belonging to the group of 'ones that try not to be noticed and labelled' is not really a group except in the sense of grouping all the quiet individualists. Maybe some of them are...
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The frustrations of life can
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2019
The frustrations of life can give a false picture of the past, but also a looking for a false kind of utopia, and missing what can be now, and the hope of better that can be.
Meanwhile inventions that have been and are beneficial will...
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I hadn't heard they might be
Posted on Fri, 08 Feb 2019
I hadn't heard they might be useful nectar sources of bees. I have written a couple of shorties about them in the past, on the cheeriness when they open after drizzle has stopped and along the roadside as 'dandy lions'! Rhiannon
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Written so realistically. So
Posted on Mon, 04 Feb 2019
Written so realistically. So sad, because so easily can grip and grow. I remember my father talking me through a 'prayer ritual' I'd got into, and showing the two extremes neither of which were true prayer. So, I can see how this could happen....
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