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Island Blog 53 – The Colour of Children
In the night I listen to the wind rising up like an angry woman. By 3 am she has bullied the curtains into a right state. The snapping of upset floral chintz wakes me with a start. Gunshot, I tell...
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Island Blog 67 – Arriving too early
Soon I will be leaving the island for my long journey south to Jenny’s funeral. I enjoy journeys, especially by train and especially the first part when we travel through the wild bracken and the...
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Island Blog 68 – Songs for the Girls
fig via: futureengagedeliver.com I wrote a song for Jenny and one day I will sing it out, perhaps after the funeral. And then I wrote another for my little grand-daughter, the youngest thus far whose...
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Island Blog 150 Space and Time
Last night I watched the International Space Station move across the starry sky. A golden orb it was, arcing overhead, just a tiny dot. Six atronauts are aboard. I waved. I know, sad really,...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Daynight
The clouds are pink. So are the hills, the trunks of the hazels, the rocks and the sea-loch. It is 4.45 am and everything is pink. I am also pink, according to the mirror reflection and my face needs...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Windstitch,Cloud Shadow, Birdlight and Fox Gloves
This wilderlight dawns a beauty. Sunshine goldens the little garden and birds catch it in their wing feathers as they lift and flutter overhead. Rainbow snow. Birdlight. I wonder if they know how much...
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I am 68. My eldest boy is 48. His daughter is 8. I like 8 and it thinked me this day as I counted everything to get to 8. My footsteps to the washing line, the stairs on the stairs, the times I changed...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Not like a suitcase or a door
Today I wake in the lime green light of absolutely not dawn. It thinks me that the Morning is pregnant, nauseous and letting me know. I groan. I want the buttery light that tells me is it at least...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A Wonder and a Mystery
During these past two days of almost warm sunshine, no rain and blue skies, I have loved walking among the trees and along the shore. Gulls wheel above the tidal dance and it seems to me that every...
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