03:02 Sunrise

Sunrise over the River Colne at 08:05, this frosty January morning. 3 minutes and 2 seconds of reflection at minus 2 degrees Celsius.

A Winter’s Tail

On a night walk west, a glance east towards the rising full moon on the last night of Winter. The clocks went forward this morning. Now, to Spring.

Blue Monday

07:59:57 Monday 18 January 2021.

Taken on my morning walk along the River Colne, facing east towards the newly-risen Sun. A reflective time before hosting Zoom lectures.

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.

Blue Moon Rising

The Hallowe’en full moon rising over Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Change

‘It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.’

Susan Sontag, The Benefactor (1963)

Shared Laughter

‘One can never speak enough of the virtues,

the dangers, the power of shared laughter’

Francoise Sagan (1935 – 2004).

Mud Stories

Low tide on the River Colne lets the mud tell its stories.

The End

I am too much

For you

You are not enough

For me.

Deep Stillness

There’s a deep stillness 

In me 

My own wine 

Dark sea 

A calm storm

My Odyssey.