The Four Chambers of the Heart – Part 3.
But getting back to you. I sometimes think you deserved a simpler, happier soul than me. People who have broken so many of their hearts Have such a different kind of love to give. It is often more compassionate I’ll …
Ben Howard
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
You are not alone.
‘We all break in different ways.’ © Elsa Holland
The Poet
“A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.” —Stanley Kunitz
Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share either 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of a historical novella set in Victorian London called Lily & the Mechanic. In the last few snippets, Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and entered the illicit sexshop underneath. …
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 13th September & #SexySnippets 14th September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …
Pocket of Love
There is a pocket of love in the air above an open flower. It reaches out with invisible fingers and draws us in. The kiss is so soft, so tender it is experienced only as the heady scent of its …
Milonga triste – Hugo Diaz (di R. Grela)
In the summer, late into the night with the big lounge doors open and a few glasses of wine already dusted, I like to put this on, Milonga Triste. It features the harmonica player Hugo Diaz and is from the sound track The Tango …
Thoughts on a quote by David Foster Wallace
Hmmm…. This quote has so much appeal. I wondered about that, why it rang so true for me and many others. Personally I think it speaks to the dilemma that in highly emotional situations you never …
Weekend Writing Warriors #8sentences
The Weekend Writing Warriors share 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of Lily & the Mechanic a historical novella set in Victorian London. Last week Lily entered the Bond Street Bookshop and arranged to enter …
#MySexySaturday & #SexySnippet
#MySexySaturday 6th September & #SexySnippets 7th September 2014 Every weekend, a group of us sign up at My Sexy Saturday and some of us at The Nuthouse Scribblers blog and post a sexy snippet: 7 sentences from a work in progress. Here’s …
Chocolate and young men
Beatrice Wood lived until she was 105 and was an active potter through her 90’s. When asked what her secret was she said “I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.” Those things which inspires us and make …
What kind of bird are YOU?
From the movie about eccentric young love: Moonrise Kingdom
Can you feel me?
Under the leaves that have freshly fallen, under the browned, softer ones and under the mulch and humus debris beneath them, lies my soul. Chest to chest with the earth. It’s the press of a lover. Of longing. Of anguish …
Random Musings
Waking up this morning in Australia it’s the first day of Spring. We had our first asparagus shoots a day ago, first we have grown, I got so excited. Things do climb out of the dark and head into the …
Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday
The Weekend Writing Warriors share 8 sentences over the weekend. Here are mine from the start of Lily & the Mechanic London 1898 The sun had long gone down and the fog was lifting off the city like …
