May 13, 2019
Gleanings
- I wasn’t so much addicted to the spectacle as to the ongoing certainty that the next click, the next link, would bring clarity.
- She was not a brand. She was a warrior in a cardigan.
- But men themselves also need to think more carefully about how they behave in public spaces.
- But here’s what I notice more and more often… this focus on the ‘want’
- I marvel that we can swim up and down in harmony: overtaking, capitulating, motioning to pass with a silent frantic wave, smiling a nod of thanks between gasps and tumbles.
- When I wake in the morning, I am no longer waking to darkness.
- This is my neighbour’s plot. Rhubarb and raspberries so far. He will have tomatoes that should win a prize by August.
- I pulled my suit on the other morning at the pool, only to find the top band had entirely unattached from the rest of the suit.
- The oak table became Mum’s worktop and her most valuable tool…
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