So different to last year’s birthday! We havent met in person for 5 months. How will she be? We have to visit with masks (or shields). Born 21/8/1919...
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Nice little incident. There
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
Nice little incident. There are often those occasional little sparks of communiation, memories, and humour that help to realise that the confused person is still there somewhere inside, and help to be able to show love and warmth more...
It does seem to have the feel of the girl who's been so sick and a bit nightmarey with fever, and feeling the oddness of convalescence and everything feeling distorted, and also the feel of a little girl wanting to be a bit removed from...
Very enjoyable going on the walk with you again, and the sense of time and the kind of noticing that goes with the speed, or lack of it, of a walk makes it seem very real. A lovely Pick of the Day too.
I've been trying to catch the...
What a nice way to end, and even the advice she was able to give him, really just nudging him on the way he had been tending to go of realising how much these people had done for him, and his need of showing his changed attitudes.
It...
From an extremely brief offering to a very lengthy one! Certainly not sure I've followed it all (though as usual your rolling, rhythmic rhyming is very effective), but the thoughts that come to mind at the end are that there was a new start after...
A dream like mix of memories and imaginings and hopes to ease the stress? (did you mean 'dreams of memories' rather than 'dreamt of memories' in the last stanza?)
gifting treasures in the form of shells and gleaming gems –- a...
How intriguing, Terry! There seems such a lot that can be unpacked from that: the fading things that come to life again, the relivening of the daze dismembering December (January sometimes seems a daze to people after the excitement of the end of...
This brought back memories! My mother (recently widowed) coming awhile and calling herself 'chief cook and nappy washer'! the full buckets, and the feeling, 'I feel totally ignorant, but only I can really understand and help this child at all.'...
Nice little incident. There
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
Nice little incident. There are often those occasional little sparks of communiation, memories, and humour that help to realise that the confused person is still there somewhere inside, and help to be able to show love and warmth more...
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It does seem to have the feel
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015
It does seem to have the feel of the girl who's been so sick and a bit nightmarey with fever, and feeling the oddness of convalescence and everything feeling distorted, and also the feel of a little girl wanting to be a bit removed from...
Read full commentPosted in Slow Burn
Very enjoyable going on the
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015
Very enjoyable going on the walk with you again, and the sense of time and the kind of noticing that goes with the speed, or lack of it, of a walk makes it seem very real. A lovely Pick of the Day too.
Read full commentI've been trying to catch the...
Posted in In July
What a nice way to end, and
Posted on Sat, 19 Sep 2015
What a nice way to end, and even the advice she was able to give him, really just nudging him on the way he had been tending to go of realising how much these people had done for him, and his need of showing his changed attitudes.
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Posted in The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 41 The End
From an extremely brief
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015
From an extremely brief offering to a very lengthy one! Certainly not sure I've followed it all (though as usual your rolling, rhythmic rhyming is very effective), but the thoughts that come to mind at the end are that there was a new start after...
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A dream like mix of memories
Posted on Sat, 12 Sep 2015
A dream like mix of memories and imaginings and hopes to ease the stress? (did you mean 'dreams of memories' rather than 'dreamt of memories' in the last stanza?)
gifting treasures in the form of shells and gleaming gems –- a...
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Enjoyable scene as Bee says,
Posted on Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Enjoyable scene as Bee says, and a clever use of the IP without making the colours too dominant. Rhiannon
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Oh, the tragedy and agony
Posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015
Oh, the tragedy and agony that no-one, especially the mother, was watching over her wisely, perceptively, nurturingly. Rhiannon
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How intriguing, Terry! There
Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2015
How intriguing, Terry! There seems such a lot that can be unpacked from that: the fading things that come to life again, the relivening of the daze dismembering December (January sometimes seems a daze to people after the excitement of the end of...
Read full commentPosted in Remember
This brought back memories!
Posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015
This brought back memories! My mother (recently widowed) coming awhile and calling herself 'chief cook and nappy washer'! the full buckets, and the feeling, 'I feel totally ignorant, but only I can really understand and help this child at all.'...
Read full commentPosted in The Weight of Snow
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