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Tumultuous Autumn

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Dark days, wet days, grey days … Bright days, golden-orange-trees-ablaze days … Flaming trees and mud – safe bulb and bud.

Nature

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Frightfully funny?

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Why do the shops and schools, and Homes fill with giggles at ghouls and gore and ugly imaginary frights for shuddering at shadows, but say it’s all...

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Don’t feel 'at home'

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...

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Philosophy

Am I …, have I … ?

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Lion-like pride or a rhino-thick hide, vain as a peacock or sneaky as a fox, sly as a snake or a flattering cat, prickly as a porcupine, stubborn as...

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I haven't been out to look

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

I haven't been out to look this year, but at others, found so many of the 'Mother's Day cards' in the shops seemed to be artificial, and not realisitic for many of the ups and downs of family life.

My mother is no longer alive, and in...

Posted in Happy Mother's Day

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Your writing is always very

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020

Your writing is always very concentrated, and bubbling, I think, with metaphors, of which I'm probably not catching all! But I read this as hoarding a hope inside that you protect from attack, but aren't too sure you could really explain??...

Posted in Jar of Lights

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It sounds a lovely haunt to

Posted on Sun, 26 Jan 2020

It sounds a lovely haunt to revisit anyway, weather good or bad ( though beware of cliffs when the weather is bad!)

I remember in Snowdonia my youngest son (who had Asperghers) running on some rocks with glee and his slightly older brother...

Posted in Memory and sacred places

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I was interested to read your

Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019

I was interested to read your last couple of lines that seem to indicate how easily one can hide away inside oneself to loss for others and oneself.

When researching family history often there is a just a skeleton list of names and places...

Posted in Graveyards

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You really made me realise

Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2019

You really made me realise why all my family have loved cycling. I missed the boat somewhere when growing up and never got there until on a tandem briefly. The pleasure and refreshment of fresh air at a slight speed really comes across here –...

Posted in Riverine reflection

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I had read this and wanted to

Posted on Mon, 03 Jun 2019

I had read this and wanted to wait and understand more clearly when there were comments. But what I found powerful were the phrases 'A stinging lock In time tattered, her voice speaks frayed words', but especially that last phrase....

Posted in Dark Rooms

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I like the title! There are

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019

I like the title! There are always those unasked questions! And simple tasks and smells bring back memories and persons so keenly. In Welsh we would say that my grandmoher used 'the notion of the eye not the hand' I think, in measuring her flour...

Posted in Toss in a pinch of love

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I like this very much, too. I

Posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2018

I like this very much, too. I remember the word 'phototropism' from biology experiments on plants growing towards the light, but hadn't though of 'heliotropism' indicating turning towards the sun. And so I hadn't realised that is where the name...

Posted in Heliotropism

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Very credible situation with

Posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2018

Very credible situation with his Dad. Interesting how it comes out here the real concern his mother does have for him, and his awareness of that, though their communication together is difficult. In some ways his special phobias/worries seem to...

Posted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part fourteen)

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Thought-provoking, Jean, and

Posted on Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Thought-provoking, Jean, and I can empathize with much that is on your mind. As a family, when I was growing up we didn't kiss, hug, or say 'I love you' much, but I think we were at ease with each other and had a warmth of expression in greeting...