Beginnings
According to Adam Nicolson, some of the earliest poems were found in Sumer in cuneiform, dating from nearly two thousand...
Acorn-bearing boughs
This is the season of acorn crunching paths, after the boughs have released them. A couple of times on my...
Moments of ecstatic ease
Nicolson challenges our perceptions of people in the past, what they felt and what motivated them to embark on often...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs)
An author whose bright writing I cheer and revere made this kind comment about WritingRedux.com. He also handed me a...
As wriggly as…
Such a friendly word for a sinuous path, and so the likening to a piece of thread fallen on a carpet...
Plus ça change…
Although this was written in the context of distant history, our TV screens are awash with images of men being...
Weed-slithered rocks
This evokes a few childhood seaside holidays in England, hopping over seaweed-slippery rocks, to play and paddle in rock pools....
Eagles colour the country they inhabit
The opening of this quotation had me asking how we 'colour the country we inhabit'? I also like the following...
Glittering as though sugared
Ah yes, that's how it looks when you have those dancing sparkles on the sea's surface. I like the extension...
Tweed-coloured coast
An aptly named colour for a Scottish coast, and why wouldn't the tweed-weavers take their palettes from the landscapes around...
Insubstantial rock-hard durability
The durability of things and of cultures intrigues me; and particularly when those artefacts are themselves physically fragile or insubstantial.
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