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hard and fast and shiny

By Di_Hard on Mon, 07 Jan 2019

we make our faces look plastic like dolls we had as children, un aging if we can afford to pay in plastic. Package fruit so it won't go black as air...

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lost in space

By Di_Hard on Sat, 05 Jan 2019

in a bowl of hills beside the sea air is ice cream red orange green lights tutti frutti the ferry's fog horn a spoon full of stillness

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Spring a Butterfly

By Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018

Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...

not ready to fly yet

By Di_Hard on Thu, 08 Nov 2018

cat on the bed looks up as I go in he lies on the floor curled as if fallen like a leaf still in school uniform the chrysalis of his face asleep next...

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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...

Posted in The Second Shadow

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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

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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

Posted in No Going Back

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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...

Posted in The shock of abrupt re-entry into civilization …

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I LOVE "looming

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

I LOVE "looming

Unhurried in Stillness and settling"
such a feeling of immensity in stone and time

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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...

Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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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...

Posted in Smokey.

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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...

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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...

Posted in Singin' in the Buncrana Rain

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Brilliant Lou Blodgett

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2025

Brilliant Lou Blodgett reports on the political scene in America, and it is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can, and give your friends a smile

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