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Category: Inner-Strength

Navigating the Doldrums

November 21, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

British yachtsman, Alex Thomson, is currently competing in the Vendée-Globe; a round-the-world, single-handed sailing race. It should take him around ten to eleven weeks to complete it. I heard him interviewed on the radio one morning this week, just nine days in. I shivered with horror as I lay in bed calculating how many days … Continue reading Navigating the Doldrums

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

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

Begin Again

April 29, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

There is no more beautiful time of year than spring, when nature is transfused, resuscitated from what, for so long, looked shrivelled and dead.  And we get a shot of energy too at this time of year; we are renewed and ready to go.  The turn of the year is familiar and comforting and it … Continue reading Begin Again

For We Ha’e Faith

April 10, 2020April 14, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

On the days when the batteries in my legs have run low, or when I know it is going to be a particularly beautiful evening, I save my daily walk until late in the day and venture out for a shorter stroll up Calton Hill. It is a still night.  Cawing seagulls, a waspish buzz … Continue reading For We Ha’e Faith

You Never Learn To Do It

April 8, 2020April 14, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Having been alerted to my own haphazard use of the full stop I now see it abused everywhere.  There is one particular book I am reading.  In this book it is placed most unconventionally.  Places where you wouldn’t expect.  Everywhere.  Are full stops.  Littered with profligacy.  Strewn.  Thoughtlessly.  Needless to say, it’s driving me mad, … Continue reading You Never Learn To Do It

Clap Hands

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

The Big Clap – did you do it?  Wasn’t it great?  I nearly forgot, but I heard them getting going, and came out from the kitchen into the front room, opened my window two floors up and leaned out into the darkness to clap.  I find every standing ovation moving, but this one even more … Continue reading Clap Hands

Every Now and Then Life Says

March 22, 2020March 25, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

‘Every now and then life says, where do you think you’re going so fast?’ We’re apt to think it’s cruel but sometimes it’s a case of cruel to be kind.’  Those are a couple of lines from a Ron Sexsmith song called ‘Gold In Them Hills’.  He’s a Canadian singer songwriter with a voice that … Continue reading Every Now and Then Life Says

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

That Horrid Time

March 12, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I lay in bed last night listening to the news and thinking about the horrid days around us.  This sent my mind spinning back to other times (which were mostly moments) that were I thought were horrid and would scar me forever; whereas now they’re like half remembered films where I can visualise certain scenes, … Continue reading That Horrid Time

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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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