It’s a rarity for me, 10 days off over Xmas; sadly my wife has to work through the holidays so Sam and I are left to our own devices. Amongst other activities we have prepared 14 bags of clothes for giveaway to our buy nothing Facebook group (great concept –
Year: 2023
Day To Day Lists
The Significance of 6000
The number 6000 has significance: But there is a 6000 we should not be proud of, it is the number of children killed in Gaza in the last two months, and for that there needs to be more than 6000 thoughts and prayers. Just saying… 🙁
Poetry
The Scent of Sunshine
We are the scent of sunshine,drifting, soaring like butterflieso’er fields not yet mownto land upon an apple limboutstretched and hangingverdant with the nectar pommeneath cotton wool and cyan skythat stretches far beyondthe waking call of baby’s cry. We are the breath of moonlightyellow streaks on placid pondsor winking through charcoal
Poetry
Colours of Joy
The song is blueocean wavescrashingagainst a topaz shore‘neath starsexplodingviolet – magenta – greenand rosebudsfluttertiny crimson heartstwistingin the breezebeneath his fingers and then… it ends. inky curtainsshut against the nightand tiny stars disappearin puffs of yellow dust. ml’23 (Listening to David Gilmour ‘Comfortably Numb – Live at Pompei’)
Poetry
A Day of Lumps
White wispsstruggle ‘neath navy capsas we honourthose who wear themin the wind and colda sea of poppiesat the eleventh hourstrewn on the tombof a young manwho never bouncedgrandchildrenon his knee. Today is pridememoriestraditionsand lumpsin my throat. ml’23
Life
Relativity
I read a letter online yesterday, from Albert Einstein to his daughter. The letter talked about his Theory of Relativity and was intended to only be made public years after his death, when the political climate of the world had improved from the Cold War he had lived in. It