Nothing Compares
Let the silent tears flow And when your eyes clear Perhaps you will glimpse How your eternal child Has become the unseen angel Who parents your...
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Quote – Diane Setterfield – The Thirteenth Tale
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of...
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Quote – Bill Plotkin
So little of our conversation addresses our passions, loves, emotions, dreams or our creative insights and soul stirrings…
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #2
Existential Crisis They said it would be useful, help me to ‘move on’, after all this time. And I did want to tell my story, I wanted to...
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A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window
My favourite radio station is BBC Radio 6 specialising in alternative music. A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window by Erland Cooper is a special...
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The tao of the ‘Nightingale’
The nightingale has totemic significance for me. Not only am I drawn to the symbolism of this bird of love and loss, it is also the name of the...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #2
“ If experience is the food of learning, then reflection is the digestive process………to benefit from experience, it is essential to make something...
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Writing my story – knowing myself
From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...
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Jon Fazal: Singer Songwriter
As an eclectic music lover here are some of my favourite songs by indie artist Jon Fazal Belly of the Beast https://bit.ly/3dX8Vwn I Will (The...
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