Sun-trap warmth
A haven of calm and enveloping warmth in places blasted by wind and cold. A place where a monk arriving...
As pale as…
This simile pleases me because I have an attachment to the colours used in eighteenth century interiors, and the kind...
As seamless and faceless as…
What could be more seamless and faceless than a U-boat surfacing and submerging, grey and impersonal? Apologies to all naval...
How loss occurs
A gentle reminder not to take anything for granted. Love, health, prosperity, freedom, peace, democracy. The insidious way things we...
Acorn-bearing boughs
This is the season of acorn crunching paths, after the boughs have released them. A couple of times on my...
The sea wants to be visited
A memorable Gaelic proverb, 'dh'iarr am muir a thadhal', given that the sea is sometimes welcoming and at...
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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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...
Iris-blue sky
When I think of such a sky, I think of Greece.
'The following morning, the weather had changed...
Heart-drenching beauty
From Nicolson's superb book on Sissinghurst and his family's relationship with it, including its transition to more public ownership. He...
A sense of happiness in the light of spring
What a beautiful corrective lens for the 'nasty, short and brutish' view of distant human lives. I did not realise...
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