Has your idea of what makes a good friend changed as you’ve gotten older?
Paola Deffendi is still waiting.
Paola Deffendi is still waiting. Paola Deffendi is waiting. Guilio Regeni her son lies buried under a line of cypress trees. Her son’s gravestone is just a plain marble slab. Unadorned except for flowers, devotional candles and a small photograph His face open and earnest. Paola Deffendi is waiting. ‘It’s all over […]
Paola Deffendi is still waiting.
Falling

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Falling
The original Grimms Fairy Stories … not the censored version.
What’s a book or movie that genuinely scared you?
Japan
If you had a free round-trip ticket to anywhere, where would you go?
Remnants

Dram rail Remnant Waste Heaped High on a mountain side Message
Remnants
Candlemas and Remembrance

Measuring the weight of clouds

He stands watching steam rise From the boiling water of the open pan He clasped his hands together To catch a cloud of steam somehow And it is moments like these Men in their madness dream Of measuring the weight of clouds He stood his mouth wide and open And tried […]
Measuring the weight of clouds
Bob Dylan Lay Lady Lay
What’s a song that changed your life?
Pavanne
All souls and anniversaries. Its the time of year when those loved and lost are remembered. A time too when anniversaries of loss forgotten – return to haunt us with depression and sadness that seems to have no connection with our present days! And then we remember. There was a time when we dreaded losing […]
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