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Jean Day
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Chet and the Prisoners - 18
Chet May 6 Karl was asking more about what our prisoners do. I told him that there is an indoor recreational space available for them to use all year...
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Chet and the Prisoners - 17
Chet May 1 Toya was so kind as to make me a birthday card, in Japanese writing. Inside was a beautifully painted bookmark with a Haiku on it. One of...
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Chet and the Prisoners - 16
Toya 23 April The AM hours are hours of inactivity. In the afternoon, I play ping-pong. I watch a judo match. 24 April I do some laundering. There is...
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Chet and the Prisoners - 15
Chet April 23 I am getting to enjoy these little talks I have mainly with Karl. He wants to become an American citizen, and I think he will be a good...
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Chet and the Prisoners - 13
Toyo 13 April The weather outdoors is ideal, and so I spend almost the entire day outside. Toward evening, I stroll outside and watch the Germans...
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Hi Bee
Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2015
Hi Bee
This is the twin piece to the one I read yesterday, and just as biting in its message. But even in ths country, people kill lobsters live and listen to the noise they make as they go into the boiling water.
I can see you are...
Read full commentPosted in Giving Them a VOICE
Hi Bee
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
Hi Bee
As usual, a lovely poem, with all your talent on show. I like it when you tell a story, and even though it often ends in sadness, it is good to do the journey.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Once, We Were Runners
Thanks Stephen
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2015
Thanks Stephen
I suppose they felt that the married women would soon get pregnant and then want to leave in the middle of the term. No birth control in those days, and a typical family had at least 7 children with many up to 13 or so....
Read full commentPosted in Laura's Letters - 1 - Before the Wedding
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2012
Hi Rhiannon
When you read the poem, you feel like you are being guided step by step on the walk. Lovely.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Walking on the Dyke, above Knighton
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Sat, 05 Jan 2013
Hi Rhiannon
I like the way you describe the beautiful scenery in the frame of the derelict window frame.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Visit to Clun
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Fri, 12 Dec 2014
Hi Rhiannon
I really like your choice of words in this perfect description of our miserable weather. We have thick freezing fog here today. I like the idea of the mizzle rubbed out by the black.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Gloom’s End
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
Hi Rhiannon
Lovely poem, and how true it is that photos can add so much to the life of an elderly person.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Nursing Home Visit (IP)
Hi Bee
Posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014
Hi Bee
I thought this was a very clever use of words. I'm still not sure that I agree with you, that the pleasure from writing only comes when someone else has read it and added their tuppence. That of course is an added bonus, but you are...
Read full commentPosted in Reader Needed
Hi Forest
Posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014
Hi Forest
I enjoyed reading this little story from your past. And you certainly are right in saying that there is no point in worrying about time - just appreciate what you have when it is there.
I like the idea of writing a...
Read full commentPosted in Don't Ask
Hi Bee
Posted on Wed, 17 Sep 2014
Hi Bee
This is very lovely, and heart felt. I lost my parents when I was 25 - so felt these emotions most strongly a long time ago. But when I got back to the States to visit, I am still valued by my sister and her family, and the...
Read full commentPosted in When I Am The Apple of No One's Eye
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