Encounter at a Rembrandt exhibition
You come back from the future as if it were the normal thing to do, with a cheery wave, breaking up pieces of the past, tangling with my emotions Being a rational kind of guy, like Rembrandt, I can see…
June 2018
My journey out of grumpiness and into a maximum
Watching Scotland beat England in a one-day cricket international was quite satisfying – partly because I feel a strong affinity to Scotland, despite my recalcitrant DNA, and partly because it wasn’t what I call cricket. The bats are too heavy,…
Something is coming
In the chinese gardens where streams strain dark cold autumn rain, a white-faced bird escapes over slippery stones and I, watching, fall headlong, lie prone on the perfect patterns below the willows Looking up, I see a change in the…
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Great evenings, thanks to Ross and Colin
One day many years ago I had something done to my teeth. I forget what it was (there are so many possibilities), but as usual it involved sitting still for quite a long time, and to distract me from the…