I heard someone ask once why we needed politicians, surely we would be able to get along without them and stem the tide of arrogance and corruption that seems to flood from political seats of power. It is an interesting question to ask why we need to be lead? Why will a thousand men do…
Month: July 2010
Friendship
When I was younger it was said that one is lucky to find one person to love in one’s lifetime and equally lucky to have two good friends to trust. it is few and in I was struck by the way friendships are working on the Internet and how social network sites promote ‘friends’, which…
The Exalted Gate
Many years ago when I first met Annie Ovenden I asked her if I could write some fairy stores inspired by her paintings. I didn’t think anything would come of the letter I sent and was genuinely surprised when she appeared at the door of the place I was working with transparencies and pictures of…
Art
If art is there to prove that people may Attempt to prove they can create in time A universe within the mind that sways The heart as surely as the stars sway mine, That makes the blood a river longing for The sea, makes a microbe, stand for something, Makes a tree a bone rooted…
Horse Riding
The first time I ever rode a horse it was spooked and I pulled on the rein to keep it steady and felt the power of its head and my own muscles tugging at the animal. I had already realised just how high up a horse really places one when mounting onto the saddle and…
Morning Walk
The grass is almost always wet and where the animals have not been grazing it grows through the summer to thigh height, drenching any clothes depute the wellington boots (galoshes). The summer sun is always there, so hot sometimes it is best to walk the fields under the ash, hazel and sycamore tree shadows. Storms…
Love Makes Things Harder
It is very tough. Even though one is tired and even though the Government recognises this and had instituted a programme of respite care, giving both the cared for and the carer two weeks away from each other every two months, it is still very hard. When one’s mother doesn’t wish to go, says she…
Ruining Imperfection
My mother is a perfectionist when it comes to her work. She will edit a poem in her head for days before writing it down and once written it is never altered, it doesn’t have to be all the editing has been done. She is like that with everything she does, the depth of thought…
Oh, For The Right Word
It is interesting that academics often create new words (usually from Greek roots in English academics) to explain a concept or train of thought. Nearly always these are an amalgam of two words that bring together two disciplines – it replaces the old hyphened words we used to find a great deal of in academic…
Soothing Hands
My dogs love to be groomed, which is really funny since the small one who came to us seven years ago as a stray has really short hair but you try and leave her out of a brush when she sees the collie being groomed. They both raise their heads and often I have seen…