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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer
we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
February Rainbow
snow cloud's blue, bomb ominous, blooms through beech trees' fragile dark raised bars that seek to cage west's brutal storms rampaging from unbroken...
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BBBB
In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost) spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me? Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, etc pointless as...
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Z is for Zing
home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...
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Y is for Yule log and Yew
wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...
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This wonderfully rich prose
Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025
This wonderfully rich prose-poem from Rask Balavoine is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
the image is from here :
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Posted in Three sips of foaming wine.
I love that comment, Rich,
Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025
I love that comment, Rich, made me think of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, only for people with ghosts in their house, needing to get brave enough to "show them who's boss" and an alternative meeting at the same time, of their ghosts listening...
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Hold onto Halloween magic a
Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025
Hold onto Halloween magic a little longer by reading this brilliant story from Hudsonmoon, which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
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Being so small and fragile
Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2025
Being so small and fragile but building huge intricate yet resilient structures seemingly out of thin air, spiders make me think of super intelligent aliens, of things we don't, cannot understand. As you say, "more to this world than what we are...
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Ohhh! Now I am wondering if
Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025
Ohhh! Now I am wondering if the scarifier will have a different effect! This could be like Game of Thrones before we know it :0)
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i like this one very much,
Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2025
i like this one very much, too. You are brilliant at weaving essential experiences together, making something deep and thrilling
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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...
Read full commentPosted in Ooze Next?
I've done the same thing as
Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025
I've done the same thing as your Mum! Glad it is not just me :0) Luckily the only one I have is the kitchen clock.
Read full commentHow do you manage with so many animals expecting extra breakfast and tea? Hope you have a sunny Birthday :0)
Wonderful...
Posted in Early Lateness
Those policemen work hard! I
Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2025
Those policemen work hard! I hope they get days off :0) This is so skillful. And I loved "Their ways are not our ways", too :0)
Read full commentPosted in Watch! (Episode 30 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Tea pots, not flesh pots :0)
Posted on Fri, 24 Oct 2025
Tea pots, not flesh pots :0)
Read full commentI like all your recurring themes.
The thing I worked out about sideways rain is, there needs to be lots of wind for it to work, so clouds will blow away sooner than if it was only sloping, or (worse)...
Posted in The Concept of Rain at a Jaunty Angle
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