Category: art
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Double decker bus
What is your preferred mode of transport? Forget about travelling on trains,or embarking on ships,or taking to the sky in planes. A private car for a road trip,a horse and cart chaise,a motor bike, all dismissed. To see the world go by,trundling along the lanes,tyres on the ground, head in the sky. Aimlessly watch the…
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Spend
If you had a billion US dollars how would you spend it? When rock and roll band Alice Cooper hit the top of the global music charts in the 1970’s they could afford to put money into what they did best as musicians and theatrical artists and recorded a song about it. In fact a…
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Chores
What chore do you find the most challenging to do? Although most household chores can be a bit tedious recycling has got to be top of the challenging pile these days. It started optimistically as a responsible way to help save resources and reduce ever growing quantities of waste but when you get down to…
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Success
How do you define success? To define this in the most black and white terms I shall say winning a football match! Following football is not my forte, but this season, witnessing the success of Newcastle United ‘The Toon’ advancing up the Premier League has been exhilarating. From being in the doldrums for years, new…
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Books
Has a book changed your life? I think most book reading changes life a little. There’s an internal dialogue ensues which effects thinking in one way or another whether it be purely for information or a literary or fictional exploration of lives, cultures, ideas and imagination. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien changed…
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Gifts
Eyes could only stare!With her foal at foot,A little grey mare. Beside one another they stood,filial bonded pair.Filly’s sidelong look. Time was still, I was unawareground slightly shook.Let buyer beware. Their eagerness was such a hook.I couldn’t not carewhatever it took. The day was fine, the weather fair,a dash of fool,a glint of mane hair.…
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Family
How far back in your family tree can you go? When thinking of my family tree I think of a branching binary chart. Each ancestor necessarily has two parents so over the aeons this tree expands to branches and twigs. I envisage a grand oak in full leaf. The extent of my knowledge is however…
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Rain
Setting out for evening walk,dusk came early.Think it’s going to rain. “Nah, it’s only spitting.It’ll be ok.We’ll go anyway.” Wind gusts tear through the oaks.Fretting, churning, breakinglike great beach waves. “Ohwell,it’s not too bad,Hope it doesn’t get worse.” Cold streaking drops increase.Dense grey haze of wet air,between dark twisting trees. “This is bad,It’s too windy!Hood…
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On writing
Why do you write? I write because I read,and follow the ways.A script conveysso much over time and space. Mostly I take notesto help me rememberthings I’m learning,and lists to forget. (Stuff to do and getwhen consigned to a listclears thoughts stuckin recurring loops.) Recipes to followwhen I cook new foodsand keep in a collection.if…
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Joy
What brings you joy in life? It is a great gift and a mystery and one to be ready for. It can take you by surprise,be invoked by the smallest things. Then recalling the pleasure of it can last a lifetime. To experience joy makes life worth living, indeed seems like it is what it’s…
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