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Island Blog 54 – All Roads Lead
I had arrived as a surprise. My daughter met me in the hallway and we hugged and exchanged greetings. A little voice from deep inside the house asked ‘Where is Granny talking from Mummy?’ and we...
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Island Blog 59 – Dolphins
Never let it be said that journeying is for the young. I never journeyed so much in my life as I am these days and all because I wrote down my life and Two Roads Published it. It is not just the trip...
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Island Blog 63 – Silver Girl
On June 1st Jenny died. We have been friends for over 4o years, the same as my years of marriage. Our children knew each other as little ones and those children now have little ones of their own....
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Island Blog 111 Love Defiant
‘Love is giving someone the power to break your heart, and trusting them not to’. Some wise soul said that, and I pinched it. When we fall in love, we fall into infatuation at first. We can think...
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Island Blog 124 – Chiaroscuro
It’s not a sausage. It’s a delicious word, nonetheless, and it is the meeting point between light and dark. Of course, there is always a meeting point between light and dark, day and night joined...
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Island Blog 146 Travelling Light
As I pack my bag for the trip to the Reader Room on Skye, I meet all sorts of thought tangles. What to take, what not to take and in which suitcase. The big stripey one or the smaller spotty one? Both...
View ArticleThe meaning of words
Talking with a friend the other evening, we discussed the meaning of words, how we each see and hear a word differently according to our experience of using a word in context. Both of us might have...
View ArticleIsland Blog – From There to Here
Leaving 40 degrees and arriving back to zero in the belly of a couple of planes with the ambient temperature of an airport or two in between requires a person to be vestment canny. Well, I really don’t...
View ArticleIsland Blog – This Journey
I will agree that these lockdowns have given us time to reflect. It has also given us fear and a stuttering of easy movement. Any journey holds both. Even going to the local shop on a little island....
View ArticleIsland Blog – This and That
Sitting here, this evening, I reflect on the past couple of days, the content, or imagined content of which halted my footsteps for many days before. I had found a breast lump. Bad timing even for a...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Here and That is How it Is
So here is how it is. Ten days of a visiting son with his kids, this morning, gone, the air sucked out of my lungs as his car disappears around the corner. Nothing has changed. The sea-loch still rises...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Happy Days
Well, now I can say that I have had an MRI scan, instead of just hearing about others being pushed into a tube, ear plugs and defenders attached, and with much encouragement to remain completely still...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Awake the Echoes
Before I left on my journey into the unknown, my head was a full chorus of discordant voices, a clamjamfry of chaos, each voice certain it was in the right place and in the right choir, which none of...
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