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Out of the Marches*
Where shall we go to explore and escape? North to the Shropshire hills (Long Mynd, Caer Caradoc, Stiperstones …)? East to Bringsty Common, the...
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Separating West from East
Bare ridge, stark, striking iconic horizon silhouette – not high …
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My Support
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundtays series} Stir up yourself to daily praise exalt, extol his name and ways: though body, mind be racked with care, my...
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Subtle ‘normalisings’
Dark times of much uncaring callousness replaced by real compassion … but now? … Dark times when mouths were sealed by dictate of the few … but now the ‘normalising’ is woked …
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True, humble prayer, and a proud pretender
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] On the story of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector told in Luke 18:9-14 It was not that he’d good to claim or vowed to make fresh start …
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Your collection of images in
Posted on Tue, 13 Jan 2015
Your collection of images in the early part of this is breathtaking as usual, and displays your noticing eye and clarity of putting the images into words succinctly for others.
– but poetry can be about all sorts of things, the pleasant,...
Read full commentPosted in Ars Poetica
… but as you said, it is the
Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2015
… but as you said, it is the space between that is full of good memories. Here the beginning, so beautifully described, and such pleasure, and seen now as the beginning of a full life, despite all the hardships, and the agony of parting. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Epiphany
I hadn't really realised the
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
I hadn't really realised the length of time involved from the beginning of the trouble, or how much was done at each stage of better health. This fills in so much of 'the spaces between' all along the way, the very hard spaces, and the happier...
Read full commentPosted in The Story of One Remarkable Lady
I'm afraid I hadn't noticed
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2014
I'm afraid I hadn't noticed this last week. It has an intriguing wistfulness. Love the feeling of the wind, and the sounds can be so varied and odd - nice when comfy indoors, like the sounds of the rain. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Wild and Beautiful
You've rephrased some of
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2014
You've rephrased some of these thoughts, while redrawing the moment (stopping the clock in a sense) and there is much tender beauty in the captured scene, linked to past memories, and present struggles, which could help others. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Quarter to January
The interview with
Posted on Tue, 16 Dec 2014
The interview with Ipnasoletok is fascinating. Was the ban on speaking their languages lifted in later years? It reminds me of youngsters in Wales years ago having to wear a board saying 'Welsh Not' i think if caught speaking the language, but in...
Read full commentPosted in We Who Survived -16 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 3
There has always been a
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2014
There has always been a tension between being open with any nationality about things in their lives that are definitely coming between their hearts and God, and what is just more minor things, and cultural differences between people of different...
Read full commentPosted in We Who Survived -14 - Perrin Whitman and the Indians -part 1
The sun sets over the birches
Posted on Mon, 08 Dec 2014
The sun sets over the birches –
Read full commentpencil-sketched on a gun-metal sky
that's lovely and fits the beautiful picture so well. Such evenings are times for memories and longing. regards, Rhiannon
[ricochets of lathe and...
Posted in December Late Afternoon
This has made me think how
Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2014
This has made me think how such a saved letter can bring memories of the person active and communicating, maybe more than a photograph. Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in PS No PS
How sad, how difficult
Posted on Wed, 12 Nov 2014
How sad, how difficult visiting in that situation, just hoping more is appreciated than shows, like when someone is in a coma. It there are earlier happy memories I suppose one has to fix on them. I'm so thankful that at present, both my in-laws...
Read full commentPosted in The Shadow of Lilith
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