Rhiannonw
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20
… But now I’ve reached 20 – I think that that’s plenty!
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19
‘Straightforwardness’ is a word that …
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In Bethlehem, long before …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] A stranger poor, she could but glean, on charity dependent, her faithful kindness had been seen, received...
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18
In Welsh the word for 18 is ‘two-nines’ (deunaw) in the Breton language it is ‘three-sixes’ (triwec’h) …
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17
Haiku example: 'Winter life withdrawn, safely shielded from the cold …'
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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...
Read full commentPosted in driverless
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....
Read full commentPosted in Bedtime Rituals
How much metaphor you've got
Posted on Sun, 03 Feb 2019
How much metaphor you've got going there for the life history of those eggs! I've assumed RV stands for Recreational Vehicle ie Camper Van as the home of the developing embryos? as they develop in a largo state before their allegro and tempo...
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A good place to start. And
Posted on Fri, 01 Feb 2019
A good place to start. And sometimes writing it more helpful than trying to talk,for that always seems to need a response, and on meeting, just a touch, and maybe praying together. Rhiannon
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Thank you, Morkath, yes, that
Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2019
Thank you, Morkath, yes, that was what I wanted to particularly emphasise – real listening that is'nt just waiting to jump in, has to be 'worked at', learned. Sometimes something is said you want to respond to, and you can miss the other things...
Read full commentPosted in the art of … listening
Hi, Hilary. Well-written
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
Hi, Hilary. Well-written challenge.
I do have to balance in my mind the need for all of us individually, and in political pressures, the fact of sometimes conflicts of concerns needing attention with study of how to help some really poor...
Read full commentPosted in The Melting Iceberg
A smooth and thoughtully
Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2019
A smooth and thoughtully constructed overview of your personal view back. Really gives the feel of that look along the lane of lifetime, which becomes more interesting to do as the view gets longer, seeing the relative position of events and...
Read full commentPosted in Down Memory Lane
You write in a dreamy and
Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2019
You write in a dreamy and lyrical way, and the idea of wandering among the galaxies or shooting directly through like a neutrino is pleasant!
The very concept of time breaks down for me as unimaginable distances and chronological time...
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I'm not sure whether there is
Posted on Mon, 07 Jan 2019
I'm not sure whether there is smoke associated with oil production, though I suppose some when used as a fuel. What I remember more is the smoke when the wells were set alight deliberately in the Kuwait war, and I think by Isis more recently....
Read full commentPosted in hard and fast and shiny
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