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Letting Go

February 6, 2022May 24, 2022 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 8 Comments

I’m still in Portrush. Gales and more gales blow through, one trailing the other, bowling balls careening down a polished rink, on they roll, another, another, another. The wind abates for a day or two, then I’ll be lying in my upstairs bedroom at night and hear it gather speed, listen to it rise, rip, … Continue reading Letting Go

Look at Her

November 28, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Look at her, sitting there at her desk in the glow of the screen not noticing the daylight fading. She loves that desk. It will soon be one year old. One year to her. It is much older than that. The day she bought it was a good day: car passed its MOT, she drove … Continue reading Look at Her

Time and Tide

June 30, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Come on, seriously? July? Tomorrow? How did that happen? I know we all remark upon it constantly: how quickly the time goes, that it flies, disappears, but this year it really slipperdy-jippeted as the calendar dates danced away from me. I love a calendar. I love the ritual turning of twelve pages and plotting what … Continue reading Time and Tide

So Near Yet So Far

May 15, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I live in a tenement and I am surrounded by people, often just a few feet away, but they are unseen and mostly unheard behind thick walls – so near and yet so far.  They are above and below me, and on both sides of me, and I am reminded that we are all together … Continue reading So Near Yet So Far

Begin Again

April 29, 2020May 28, 2022 ~ 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

Micro Seasons

September 18, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

Micro seasons – I had never heard of such a thing until R. explained the concept to me and immediately it made sense.  Four even seasons, neatly contained within three-month blocks, is far too wide a cut to allow for any of the nuance that cusps between seasons can bring.  How on earth can we … Continue reading Micro Seasons

Any Ordinary Day

March 15, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I’m reading a book on loan to me.  S. brought it back from a trip to Australia earlier this year.  ‘Any Ordinary Day’ is by Leigh Sales.  It’s a collection of stories about the very worst things people can experience that rise up, out of the blue.  The title is important; they are stories of … Continue reading Any Ordinary Day

The Year Is Going, Let Him Go

December 31, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 5 Comments

It was either Elsa or Anna (I should know which) who implored us to, ‘Let it go’, as she belted her message out, Disney style.  And why not take advice from a cartoon character when the conventional leadership and global governance of the day plays out like a poorly scripted soap opera?  We may take … Continue reading The Year Is Going, Let Him Go

I May, I Might, I Must

December 7, 2018May 21, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 3 Comments

Choice: it is, perhaps, the single, most important determinant in how our lives turn out; in how we plough a furrow through this world.  Yes, some people, often through fate of birth, are born to a life of enhanced opportunity with an array of choices before them, whilst others are born into a ready-made obstacle … Continue reading I May, I Might, I Must

Young and Old

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it can only be lived forwards.’  These are the words of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian and poet.  I was at a conference last week where one of the speakers, from Denmark, drew extensively from the work of Kierkegaard.  When he told us he was going to delve … Continue reading Young and Old

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