STREAMING A SUNDAY STOMP DOWN MEMORY LANE
cindyphillips They are burying the Queen in London on Monday. In Bathurst I won’t be able to live stream proceedings in London, because Her Royal Highness’ grandfather caused the dismal legacy…
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PRAYER AND THE CAT AS A METAPHOR FOR GRATITUDE, POET OF THE WEEK
Shabbat Shalom, and with immense gratitude for fortitude and friendship through a difficult week, here is an introduction to a new poet for me. I have been thinking about how…
WHO WAS VINCENT?
Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood. Th’ applause of…
PRAYING
Praying by Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to bethe blue iris, it could beweeds in a vacant lot, or a fewsmall stones; justpay attention, then patch a few words together…
Who are YOU?
I go up to Powder Magazine Hill most days, sometimes only as a shortcut over the hill down to the village, sometimes to meditate at sunrise or sunset, regularly to…
SOMETIMES AN ALBUM IS ONLY GOOD BECAUSE IT CAME OUT WHEN I WAS 16?
When I filled out the Proust Questionnaire, and wrote about my experience of being happy, and of the personal wealth that is contained in my recollections of that bliss, I…
BLACK DOG
Winston Churchill was so accustomed to visits by depression that he had a nickname for it - his ‘Black Dog’. Other sufferers of depression have since found Churchill’s ‘Black Dog’…
RE-ENTRY TRAUMA; HOLD ME CLOSER
I like a movie adaptation that has been true to the original novel, and so a favourite film to watch is The Age of Innocence. It is legendary director Martin…
Chasing after Lijsbeth Arabus
Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but…
REGARDING THE WALK
flaneuse / noun:the dictionaries explain only that it is the feminine of flaneur “And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.Because he loved true things, he…