School of Life

A small scar intersects his top lip on the left and another angles across his lined forehead. His hair is still thick, the dark blonde mostly shot through with grey. His name isn’t Jack, but that’s what he’s been called for most of his life.

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Corners

I’ve never know how to hold you properly fold you, in my arms. You are so much bigger than me with such strength, and yet easily twisted and bent. I struggle and start again, and then again but  get nowhere.   I can see where you naturally flow but try as I might you slip […]

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Three deep breaths…

I appear to have dislocated my efficiency my ability, to organize and prioritize. My desk is a state the dishes, the laundry, the garden…. I feel myself hesitate. This list has no ending, and time is no longer bending to my will! Stop, stay still….no more despair. Three deep breaths and I’m there, One thing […]

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Take Off Your Slippers…

Today I almost left the house, in my slippers, so comfortable they are part of me. With this comfort there is no strain, no stress, no flexing of muscles. This comfort is good, good in slippers. With this comfort in life, you forget to learn, to stretch, to feel the joy of something new. In […]

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I know it’s here somewhere…

I’m in a state of curiosity, Of uncertainty, Tentatively reaching. It’s cold out here alone, The moonlight casting shadows, An owl screeching. It’s a time of possibility, Of probability, And I’m beseeching. A tear in my eye, I raise my head and cry… To all the gods, the powers that be! Help me find my […]

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Get Packin’

Outside, the light is bright and frosted I’m wrapped up like a baby, swaddled. Walking I pass others, they too are hidden our sense of fashion has been overridden.   Cloaked in layers upon layers from head to toe, only my face is visible. I’m joyous in the winter sun then miserable, as the wind […]

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Keep it Simple Sweetie!

It needs to be less, Less than before, Right now there’s too much It’s blocking the door.   We can’t feel the air and we can’t move around. We can’t see the sky, we can’t see the ground! Break it down. Make it clear. Some has to go, there’s no room here.   The issue […]

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