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What if the things we are most dependent on are insufficient substitutes for something else? Walking home from my first independent visit to the gym - no trainer - and feeling throughout my body how ...read more
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To overcome a longterm injury I've taken on some personal training, in a stinky gym paved in black rubber. I can only afford two half hour sessions per week so we need to get us ...read more
I was chopping wood today & remembered a guy from Wales many years ago who was missing two fingers from his left hand. He described how he felt the sickening, impossible thing... then his first ...read more
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It's getting dark. The gentle end of a slow and satisfying farm day. My farm is a tiny lakeside property which belongs to an absent friend. I am alone today. Last night we walked round ...read more
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Hooray, I just perfected a new & absolutely unexpected skill. You know when you have to write blurb for a festival or a book release and it is so so painful to describe Oneself, One's ...read more
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Finally my bike! There have been various substitute treadlies in between but my own blue bike, bought in Alice Springs a decade back, is now out of storage and dusted and greased and today for ...read more
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. today the way the world is run and the people who run it making me tired tired of not saying "you make me feel" tired of I instead of you statements. You make me ...read more
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Last week on the market I spoke to the girl queueing before me at the fruit stall. She had said to the cashier, Could I have a bag for that too please? which focused my ...read more
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This morning I woke late and slowly and heavy and smiling, blindly at everything, the sun and the distant trains, heavy with the discovery unflowering in me: my heart is full of love. Heavy with ...read more