Category: Gratitude
The March of the Mushrooms
When I awoke this morning, something was still playing on my mind from the night. I stretched and opened my eyes searching for the reason, but the dream slid away like a shadow moving with the sun. I was agitated somehow. Not upset or depressed just moved by some thought that had evoked this feeling. […]
Continue Reading...Abundance
My life is full already, I feel old and full of doubt. I’m full of worrying discord, I feel frail and plagued with doubt. I’m full of negative emotion, On my daily wheel of derision. My life is full already, But there is a chink of light. Move over all that baggage, I see there’s […]
Continue Reading...Acrostic -Thank You NHS
T he trouble with humans is that we take everything for granted. H ow would it feel to lose normality, lose what you hold so dear? A nd after that, how would it feel to know only a select few might be able to restore order in your body or that of a loved one? […]
Continue Reading...Isolation
Doesn’t she know this is serious? Stupid woman, we’re all in isolation you know and I am particularly ill! Have been for weeks, yet every day she’s out there, on the green, right outside my sickbay. 9.00am on the dot she arrives, ridiculous routine…silently removing her coat, placing it ceremoniously on the grass like some sort […]
Continue Reading...The Dichotomy of Size
‘A division contrast between two things that are or are represented as being, opposed or entirely different’ I pulled my laboratory seat closer to the microscope and gently placed my eye to the ocular lens, my fingers of one hand on the focussing mechanism and the other on the microscope ‘stage’ where the slide was […]
Continue Reading...Wonderous Carvings
‘I’m powerful, I’m loving and I have nothing to fear’ I was chanting these affirmations to myself as I was being dragged up the mountain, willing my skis to stay straight and parallel whilst clenching every unwilling muscle in my buttocks, determined not to sink down on the rubber button wedged between my thighs. An […]
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