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Mind Yourself

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

On feeling precarious right now.

Pay Attention to the Open Sky

September 30, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I’ve written before about looking up, skyward, and how the spaciousness and unfathomable expansion brings up a mixture of feelings within me: awe, hope, and sometimes even a sense trepidation that I can’t quite understand. Like last week’s pink flume of cloud that rose at sunset making my world feel supernatural until, gazing at it … Continue reading Pay Attention to the Open Sky

How Romantic

September 23, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” – isn’t it amazing to think that when Wordsworth wrote that line it was new and arresting? As fresh as a daisy, which was once also an original phrase. It’s a tricky thing this word spinning, tricky, that is, to come up with fresh ideas and novel combinations of … Continue reading How Romantic

Whiter Shade of Pale

August 4, 2020August 7, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

Some summers are golden; they are tanned legs, they are parched yellow grass, they are sunshine dancing a path on the ocean. Other summers are filled with the primary energy of blue and green; they are endless azure skies into which runner beans curl and stretch, they are hedgerows heavy with honeysuckle, they are jewelled … Continue reading Whiter Shade of Pale

Strolling With Ghosts

July 26, 2020August 22, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Yesterday, my friend and I walked the land around Ireland’s oldest linen fabric mill, Clarks of Upperlands, in Mid-Ulster. A section of it is still working after 300 years, but much of it is disused and abandoned, but for a few dog walkers, quiet explorers like ourselves, and more than the odd ghost. We walked … Continue reading Strolling With Ghosts

Rise and Shine

June 26, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

I’m no lark. At this time of the year the sun is up many hours before I am. It is breaking, rising and shining whilst I remain snoring, sinking and languishing. Earlier this week, however, fuelled by a rush of midsummer energy, enthusiasm for life, and renewed hope that it is, after all, a wonderful … Continue reading Rise and Shine

Come With Me

June 7, 2020October 22, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

The good thing about walking alone is that you have time to stop and see and take note. The bad thing is there is no one to enjoy it with. I write this for you, and I walk with you. Come with me. I’m cutting up the side of London Road Gardens. Cow parsley sways … Continue reading Come With Me

Time to Consider

May 9, 2020June 8, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

We have so much time to consider, these days.  To consider anything and everything.  To develop little obsessions, healthy and unhealthy. (Note to self: consider if is there such a thing as a healthy obsession?) My best time, the time I set for considering, is when I’m outside walking and watching, looking and noticing. I’m … Continue reading Time to Consider

Close Your Eyes and Go

May 6, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

The majority of planes are grounded and the sight of a contrail ribboning the sky (I’ve always thought them beautiful) has become noteworthy.  I turned my car engine over yesterday and revved it; car-physio, is what I’m calling this monthly, one-minute resuscitation.  I’m not sure it will make any difference, it’s probably as effective as … Continue reading Close Your Eyes and Go

Unbearable Beauty

April 25, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

There is an unbearable beauty about Edinburgh these days.  All week I have witnessed nature’s exquisite performance; free displays so stunning to look upon that I am not sure if they are filling my heart with joy or wounding it with pain.  It is too much to take in.  I’ve come to think of my … Continue reading Unbearable Beauty

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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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