I have never known complete silence. Just pin pricks in the backdrop of white noise, where darkness seeps into quiet moments. Memories rain into my never empty mind, daydreams creep up and worry at my imagination like dogs with bones, persistent ringing of the telephone, or the doorbell. Traffic passes, […]
Day: January 4, 2018
Open
The door to another year has opened to let me in – or is it out? Chill air wakens my lungs, new and fresh it forces me to breathe deeply, open my lips and sing with the promise of green buds and snowdrops, old friends and new birth. I just have to step out the […]
The Old Man and the Hind
envious magic diluted in nature’s tears conquered by kindness Kim M. Russell, 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1340 The Story of the first Old Man and of the Hind Scheherazade continues to save her life with ‘The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind’, a story I have heard of but […]