“…for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself The seashore is a silent, desolate place in December. No children to colour it with the bright red and yellow of beach balls, buckets, and pails. No castles. No large and plush blue towels under creamy parasols and sweet, drip-dropping ice cream cones. In June, it will be warmer. Children – and I – can survive the cold on that promise: returning summer. Another quiet shore in Delaware Bay waits too; in May,… Read More
Posts in Travel
On Berlin time
“…the most spectacular, moving event…”
Read MoreOn something flaky, airy, ethereally light
All of Paris streamed through the doors at 92 rue de Richelieu…
Read MoreOn a photograph
“You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
– Homer, The Illiad
On a hill
Lipstick red, ladybug red, late-August-sky-on-fire red, still steaming. I could smell them from the door. Tomatoes have a smell.
Read MoreOn the scale
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag.
Read MoreOn the doorstep
An old Lebanese house by the sea. A time when people and doors were more open.
Read MoreOn a wheel
But this is a story about a wheel, an engine, and going nowhere.
Read MoreOn a walk
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.”
– Herman Hesse
On the train to Devon
A ticket, a sandwich, an escapade.
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