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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Biddy Wigley (1): Ruth's Journey
The invitation was implied, not spoken. The journey was imminent, and while happy to go alone, we felt that she would appreciate some company. We gathered in the evening, talking quietly late into the night before settling down to sleep.
Morning brought warm sunshine and, not knowing our final destination, but equipped for all eventualities, we set off on our adventure. She guided us, as she always had, at times climbing steeply, at times strolling on level ground, at times negotiating difficult paths. She stopped to rest from time to time during the day, taking a cat nap at will. As we travelled, we met others with whom she shared words of comfort or encouragement before moving on.
She declined to share the picnic, but enjoyed the jokes and teasing that were an integral part of our lives. Relaxing later she murmured words of appreciation for our company. Resuming the journey we noticed that from time to time she would stop and, shading her eyes, look into the distance, as if spying out the land, before continuing. As the day wore on she seemed less aware of us and more focused on her destination. We wondered if we would make journeys end before nightfall or whether we might need to find shelter.
Taking another break she settled down for a rest. We sat a little way from her, chatting about all manner of things! Suddenly we became aware that she was looking at us, yet past us. Something had changed and we knew then that her destination today was not ours. The last part of the journey was for her alone. As we watched her with loving concern, she gently left and peace enveloped us as the sun dipped behind the hill.
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Morning brought warm sunshine and, not knowing our final destination, but equipped for all eventualities, we set off on our adventure. She guided us, as she always had, at times climbing steeply, at times strolling on level ground, at times negotiating difficult paths. She stopped to rest from time to time during the day, taking a cat nap at will. As we travelled, we met others with whom she shared words of comfort or encouragement before moving on.
She declined to share the picnic, but enjoyed the jokes and teasing that were an integral part of our lives. Relaxing later she murmured words of appreciation for our company. Resuming the journey we noticed that from time to time she would stop and, shading her eyes, look into the distance, as if spying out the land, before continuing. As the day wore on she seemed less aware of us and more focused on her destination. We wondered if we would make journeys end before nightfall or whether we might need to find shelter.
Taking another break she settled down for a rest. We sat a little way from her, chatting about all manner of things! Suddenly we became aware that she was looking at us, yet past us. Something had changed and we knew then that her destination today was not ours. The last part of the journey was for her alone. As we watched her with loving concern, she gently left and peace enveloped us as the sun dipped behind the hill.
Biddy Wigley
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Events (3): The Guardian Hay Festival
Caroline Gill at the Guardian Hay Festival
You can read about Caroline Gill's visit by clicking this livelink. Speakers this year include Archbishop Rowan Williams and John Toman (on Kilvert's Diary). David and Caroline attended the Kilvert event yesterday.
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Events (4): Five-Minute Dramas
TONIGHT
Friday 29 May
7 for 7.30pm
A meeting
of
Ready Writers Swansea
for the presentation of
five-minute dramas.
If further information is required, please use the email in the profile section ('About RWS') of this blog,
or leave a comment in the Comment Box below.
Friday 29 May
7 for 7.30pm
A meeting
of
Ready Writers Swansea
for the presentation of
five-minute dramas.
If further information is required, please use the email in the profile section ('About RWS') of this blog,
or leave a comment in the Comment Box below.
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Poetry Events (1): The Seventh Quarry
Please click this link to find details of an event organised by The Seventh Quarry at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on 20 June 2009.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Dr Ruth Jenkins (1): New Beginnings
New Beginnings
I awoke and it was a new day. It was Monday and early September and my room was at the very top of a tall Victorian house with one large square window out of which I would climb in weeks to come to sit on the fire escape.
I was in the land of red letterboxes, red telephone boxes and red double decker buses.
That morning I went to the German Embassy to have my passport extended. I had to catch the bus at Notting Hill Gate and first I thought I was the only passenger but in the very back sat an old woman dressed all in black. Her hair was white, her face haggard and her posture rigid. She sat at the centre of the rear seat, holding a black book in both her hands, arms stretched out. Then she opened her mouth and she began to sing hymns at the top of her voice.
Passengers joined all the way to Rutland Gate where I had to get off, but nobody told her to stop. She sat there singing. And to this day my heart is singing when I am in London, just as it was singing when I was sitting on the fire escape one late autumn evening, the fog veiling all. I was listening to gospel music when out of that dark moist fog came a deep voice: ‘Mahalia!’.*
© Dr Ruth Jenkins 2009
This piece was written as a Ready Writer assignment.
I awoke and it was a new day. It was Monday and early September and my room was at the very top of a tall Victorian house with one large square window out of which I would climb in weeks to come to sit on the fire escape.
I was in the land of red letterboxes, red telephone boxes and red double decker buses.
That morning I went to the German Embassy to have my passport extended. I had to catch the bus at Notting Hill Gate and first I thought I was the only passenger but in the very back sat an old woman dressed all in black. Her hair was white, her face haggard and her posture rigid. She sat at the centre of the rear seat, holding a black book in both her hands, arms stretched out. Then she opened her mouth and she began to sing hymns at the top of her voice.
Passengers joined all the way to Rutland Gate where I had to get off, but nobody told her to stop. She sat there singing. And to this day my heart is singing when I am in London, just as it was singing when I was sitting on the fire escape one late autumn evening, the fog veiling all. I was listening to gospel music when out of that dark moist fog came a deep voice: ‘Mahalia!’.*
© Dr Ruth Jenkins 2009
This piece was written as a Ready Writer assignment.
David Gill (1): Gloucestershire in the Negev
Please click on this link to David's YouTube recording of his desert poem, a parody of 'Adlestrop' by Edward Thomas. David's poem was first published in The Seventh Quarry ed. Peter Thabit Jones.
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- Continuing the desert theme, you might also like to look at Caroline's posting on the ancient city of Palmyra for the current Carnival of the Arid over on the Coyote Crossing blog.
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Caroline Gill (1): haiku
HAIKU
俳句
something is stirring:
swallow on the wings of dawn,
African sunrise
© Caroline Gill 2006
俳句
something is stirring:
swallow on the wings of dawn,
African sunrise
© Caroline Gill 2006
Written at 'Time to Write', Nicholaston House, 2006
- Psalm 84:3
- The Birds Our Teachers by John Stott (Baker Books 2001)
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Events (1): Details of Barn Dance
Charity Barn Dance. All welcome!
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- Friday 8 May 2009
- Venue: Parklands Evangelical Church, Maes-Gollen, Sketty Park, Swansea SA2 8HQ, Wales, UK
- Live band and light refreshments
- Adult ticket: £7.50
- Family ticket: £10
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Stop Press! Charity Barn Dance
Charity Barn Dance. All welcome!
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- Friday 8 May 2009
- Venue: Parklands Evangelical Church, Maes-Gollen, Sketty Park, Swansea SA2 8HQ, Wales, UK
- Live band and light refreshments
- Adult ticket: £7.50
- Family ticket: £10
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