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Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Monday, 9 January 2017

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream…

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It was the moment first-light shape-shifted – imperceptibly transmuting from astronomical to nautical dawn – and, although my vision had...
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016

When; and the art of existential transience…

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For a relatively short time, I sobbed my heart out. But then, being the undoubtedly strange creature that I am – and, yet residing on it...
Thursday, 18 August 2016

Tin or aluminium; not titanium…

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belie...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

As we tumble into bed…

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I am night. I know when the moon rises, overdue, from its Tysoe Hill cradle: slowed by that earthly, all-too-human two-hundred-metre cl...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

And still the light grew and grew…

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At the long day’s (and my short dawdle’s) inception – as I gingerly secured the front door: hat on head; walking stick in hand… – the e...
Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life…

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If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. – Raymond Inmon As I closed t...
Monday, 8 June 2015

It’s just a restless feeling…

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Call me Ishmael . Or, more appositely, Ahab, if you will: hunting the legendary – perhaps mythical – White Whale of a good night’s good...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

Mercury falling…

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The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day. – WH Aud...