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between
hills are mirrors reflecting dreams bullet hole sun through sky window air comes in shards blown out, cutting rainbow bridges instants of sea...
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gorse
wild yellow, bold, bee-full, gladsome glory yellow glowing gifts grow, spirit lifting sweet, small yellow flames, lip-soft, scented, bright tip dull...
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view
My neighbour had seen me, slow pulling my shopping up the road had waved and cheerily bellowed "Can you not go faster?" Below his renovated house,...
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untravelling path
a memory of walking worn between trees into moss and fallen leaves. A parting as through hair, to tame or make bindable a growing thing shod foot...
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driverless
the more people run away the less there is to escape to the more beauty we buy the less room we have for truth we fuel our vehicles with tomorrows...
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OOOOh, could he be the baby
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
OOOOh, could he be the baby she had to give up? Great contrasts in this part, between weak Aefelthrith and strong Dolly, and frail "Arry's Mum and super strong Gwladys
Read full commentPosted in Caring (Episode 32 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)
Have heard of someone
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
Have heard of someone becoming "a shadow of their former self" but not the idea of there being a shadow of possible future self. I found this sentence most interesting : "A mirror showing him a version of himself he no longer knew how to reach...
Read full commentPosted in The Second Shadow
Makis brings a glimpse of
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
Makis brings a glimpse of peace in our troublous times, in this Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too
Read full commentPosted in Time Lords
Thankyou for your wonderful
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
Thankyou for your wonderful IP response, so interesting how your experience with the steam train shaped the direction of your life's journey
Read full commentPosted in No Going Back
Thankyou for this, Rhiannon.
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
Thankyou for this, Rhiannon. I love the kindness, gentleness you evoke, both in the elderly man whose autobiography your husband printed, but also the landscape in which he lived. And that the family friendship came because of your husband giving...
Read full commentPosted in The shock of abrupt re-entry into civilization …
I LOVE "looming
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
I LOVE "looming
Unhurried in Stillness and settling"
Read full commentsuch a feeling of immensity in stone and time
Posted in Old Man Of Storr
Really enjoyed this holiday
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
Really enjoyed this holiday diary, and your wonderful photos, too. Best of all is your spirits battling against the liquids of sideways rain, dampness in the musty rustic cottage, and tea trickling from leaky teapot - helped by the liquids of...
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
I am glad you let him in :0)
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
I am glad you let him in :0) Wondering if perhaps, his people might have moved recently, and being in new territory, added to the fear of the noise, might have made him run too far to find his way back? Do you have a local facebook page you could...
Read full commentPosted in Smokey.
Sampling the variety of
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025
Sampling the variety of sideways rain here, today, good to settle down (damply) and compare :0) I loved the last sentence in your Dally, and how you two always find something fun to do. That cross is amazing. The Reformation must have been...
Read full commentPosted in Ooze Next?
I wonder if the glory of the
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
I wonder if the glory of the sky was any comfort, in the Famine. How easy it might be, to believe in God, seeing such beauty, if not starving to death because of fellow human beings' decisions across the sea in London. Perhaps beautiful skies in...
Read full commentPosted in Singin' in the Buncrana Rain
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