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Category: Impermanence

That Was The Year That Was

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

We’re not quite done with it yet, but as good as. Just a couple more days and we’ll be into a new year with fresh challenges. Are you glad to see the back of 2020, or were there some things about the year that surprised you and that you secretly quite liked?

This Time of Year

September 4, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

We start to lose the light this time of year and the sun moves back towards the bridges. Every evening as I watch it set from Calton Hill the sun creeps closer to the whale bone rib cage cable stays of the Queensferry Crossing. The runner beans in the backgreen have stopped searching for whatever … Continue reading This Time of Year

A Terrible Beauty

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

At first, I thought it was nighttime roadworks. Or an ambulance pulled in by the side of the street, its lights flashing. Largely, I’d pushed the flickering to the back of my mind, dismissing it as some sort of strobe lighting outside. That was until I heard the BOOM! Then I knew it was the … Continue reading A Terrible Beauty

A Lesson

July 20, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 5 Comments

He has learned my name, he says it over and over, calling me, his new playmate, to attention. If my name were the clutch of a car you would smell burning by now. He puts one hand on his hip, like a supermodel who has reached the end of the runway, and thrusts the free … Continue reading A Lesson

Maybe Next Year

June 10, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I can only let go by degrees. I can only accept change slowly. I think that is normal. There might be some superhumans who can adapt more quickly, but I imagine many of us are built in the same way; that we process change piece by piece, one thing at a time. For me, it … Continue reading Maybe Next Year

Let Evening Come

May 27, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

My favourite time of the day has come to be the evening.  A fluttering restlessness builds within me and I have to leave the house, take a walk out.  Lately I’ve been scheduling my walk to get to my destination on high in time to see the sunset sky burn, then I watch it turn … Continue reading Let Evening Come

All Sorts of Trivial Stuff

May 24, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

We imagine that the things we have make us.  All sorts of trivial stuff.  Or at least I did, when I was younger.  I thought I would only become a responsible, functioning adult when I had a house filled with everything I needed and more besides.  And I spent years accumulating; accumulating things I thought … Continue reading All Sorts of Trivial Stuff

Passing Through

May 21, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

The grey heron is back.  I have been watching and waiting for him, and finally I’ve been rewarded.  Last year he was a fixture on Dunsapie Loch, on the east side of Arthur’s Seat.  There he would stalk, or wade, or stand frozen in position like some sort of prehistoric decoy.  This year he favours … Continue reading Passing Through

The Calamity Lesson

May 12, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I wish it wasn’t true, but there is no teacher like adversity.  And the lessons that come from sudden calamity are often the ones that teach us the most.  The learning is far from over, because our shadowy visitor hasn’t just dropped in for the weekend, it has yet more to impart.  It is not … Continue reading The Calamity Lesson

Looking Outward

March 18, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

My late husband once told me something very obvious, except at the time it wasn’t in the least bit obvious to me.  He told me that taking oneself to a place of elevation (Arthur’s Seat, for example), climbing up to a look-out point (say, the top of the Scott Monument), finding a view out over … Continue reading Looking Outward

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I hope my online Edinburgh Press will, in time, hold a similar collection in words to that which is in my Edinburgh Press at home.  I will add to it as often as I can building a collection of memories and observations bubbling up from below, breaking the surface of my mind. I’ll send them out into the world where you can, if you want, share them. Welcome to My Edinburgh Press.

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  • Things Are Bound to be Improving January 18, 2021
  • Mind Yourself January 10, 2021
  • Are You In A Bumble? January 6, 2021
  • That Was The Year That Was December 29, 2020
  • Pity Mice Implicitly December 24, 2020
  • Thanks for the Memory December 20, 2020
  • The Courage to Say No December 13, 2020
  • I Haven’t Made Up My Mind December 6, 2020
  • Here and Now November 29, 2020
  • Navigating the Doldrums November 21, 2020
  • Old and Wise November 15, 2020
  • Giving Out November 7, 2020
  • The Street Where I Live October 30, 2020
  • Accentuate The Positive October 24, 2020
  • How To Turn an Adult Into a Child October 18, 2020
  • Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally October 10, 2020
  • Knowing Nothing October 4, 2020
  • Pay Attention to the Open Sky September 30, 2020
  • How Romantic September 23, 2020
  • The Thing You Turn To September 20, 2020
  • While There Is Still Time September 17, 2020
  • What Am I Doing? September 12, 2020
  • Spike September 8, 2020
  • This Time of Year September 4, 2020
  • Are You On My Wavelength? August 31, 2020

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  • Things Are Bound to be Improving January 18, 2021
  • Mind Yourself January 10, 2021
  • Are You In A Bumble? January 6, 2021
  • That Was The Year That Was December 29, 2020
  • Pity Mice Implicitly December 24, 2020
  • Thanks for the Memory December 20, 2020
  • The Courage to Say No December 13, 2020
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