Connected
If this virus has shown us anything,
it is that we are all connected.
Our hug
Which I miss so very much
is resisted
so I don’t also hug
your mother,
sister,
brother,
child.
Your kitchen table,
which has supported our elbows
over long hours of
tea and talk
has to be… Read more
Deep winter wonderings, wanderings – What’s your thing: a podcast episode with Parcifal Solomon
When I first met Parcifal, we were in his grandma’s garden, studying each other from afar, silently. He had/ has the most arresting blue eyes and was much younger than me. Our fathers are cousins. We didn’t meet again for many decades and when we did we clicked and talked but it has really been … Read more
Packaging
What happens
when you peel away the celophane
from your
airtravelled roses and smell
nothing?
What happens when the confident laughing girl you met last night
wakes up beside you smudged, barefaced and vulnerable?
What happens when we take children
out of their uniforms
and see individuals instead of
data?
What would happen if we … Read more
What if
What if they wrapped your strawberries in celophane so that you didn’t miss the sweet, summer honey smell of childhood stawberry picking?
What if clothes and make up were just another kind of straight jacket to keep us wrapped in conforming shiny brittle shells of plastic?
What if the rush and busy-ness of earning was … Read more
When was the last time?
When was the last time you looked into your cat’s eyes and saw curiosity lighting you?
When was the last time you wrapped your arms around your dog and held the soft, warm, body against your stress tight chest?
When was the last time you let a cow’s long trusting tongue wrap around your worried … Read more
2020 Vision
2020 Vision
2020 has definately been a year when I saw things with more clarity and sharpness. The unconscious trance, or denial I had been … Read more
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