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Category: Loneliness

The Contented Loneliness of the Cold Water Swimmer

October 28, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

It shall be my fifth consecutive evening swim in the harbour. Spring tides are here. I’m togged up. I head down to launch myself when the water is high, but the spirit is low, weak. Not this evening, I decide. There is no need. Why put yourself through this torture? Nobody’s forcing you. You’re a … Continue reading The Contented Loneliness of the Cold Water Swimmer

Encounter

October 21, 2021May 24, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

I knew when he set the copy of Good Housekeeping magazine to one side that he had been waiting for me. Not me specifically, but a version of me; someone on their own who would speak and not shrug; someone who would agree with him that it was a day for indoors; someone who thought … Continue reading Encounter

Meet Me at the Crossroads

May 23, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

What difference would it have made to Tarry Flynn had he got himself onto a dating app? That is the question I keep turning over in my mind. Tarry is the main character of the eponymously titled Patrick Kavanagh novel that I am re-reading after twenty-five years. Published in 1948, it was banned for fourteen … Continue reading Meet Me at the Crossroads

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

An Austerity of Closeness

May 3, 2020May 28, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Austerity: it was the word of the last decade, wasn’t it?  Carried over from the decade before, from the infamous crash of 2007 when we (or someone on our behalf) over-stretched and over-spent until under we went.  And after that, I only ever thought of the word ‘austerity’ in terms of fiscal policy; I associated … Continue reading An Austerity of Closeness

Few and Simple Pleasures

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

Social isolation – no difference there then!  C. said that to me last month when we were teetering on the edge of the lockdown and we laughed in mutual understanding, each of us paid up members of the Loner’s Club; that not so exclusive band of members who spend too much of the week hanging … Continue reading Few and Simple Pleasures

Rear Window

March 14, 2020March 24, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Rear Window – have you seen it?  It’s a Hitchcock classic; a masterful take on one man’s social isolation whilst living, incapacitated, in a bustling Lower Manhattan apartment block in the 1950s.   As social distancing and self-isolation sweeps the world, I thought I’d revisit it.  If you’re short of something to watch during these quiet … Continue reading Rear Window

This Feeling Will Not Last

January 22, 2020March 11, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I have been lonely in the past, but I am not anymore.  I know I might well be lonely again in the future, and, when that happens, I’ll have to remind myself that the feeling will not last.  That’s one of the good things about getting older: we’ve seen it before.  Some call it, ‘wisdom’ … Continue reading This Feeling Will Not Last

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