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Author: Neal
An experience I feel we don’t have enough of these days is the feeling of singing in chorus together. I have always liked songs with chorus where many voices join together to answer the call, join voices The first time I noticed the power of this was at school and it probably marks one of […]
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Necklace / rebirth / care
I stood by the shore, afternoon sun, with the surfboard and wearing my wetsuit ready to enter the warm waters of the West coast of France. Recently, I had found a necklace that I wore when I was a child. It was a string necklace with a carving of a dolphin. I wore it again […]
A place, a history: a contrast, a contradiction: London
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To the bottom of the ocean
In those moments, it did feel like the mind was expanding / releasing – opening, like the mouth on the pope’s fish-head hat. Like a fish gulping cool waters – a herring fish, silvery and slipping through the currents of the Atlantic ocean, then suddenly going to deep waters. The deeper it is, the darker […]
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New Normal
What’s the aubergine doing in the drying rack? Well, we’ve just just finished scrubbing it of any viruses that might be on its surface. It’s drying now alongside the plates, cups – and bottles and tins. What is this term ‘new normal’ that I keep hearing? Is it normal? Or is it new? Or is […]
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Pebble memories
I remember being down by the beach till late. Tossing wet pebbles at the pink buoys, charging into the late day’s dark blue water, and splashing wildly to ignore the cold. The summer sun hanging in the sky for a few extra hours than otherwise. Whitewashed houses looked warm for a bit longer. The golden […]
A few days ago I went for a walk and I stopped by a pond and watched some koi fish. I was so intrigued by them, that I was felt prompted to remark how I could well understand why the Japanese culture revered them so much. Those ink paintings and wood prints and even the […]
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Water colours with Jeffrey Gale
Jeffry Gale is a curious fellow that I knew. Many years ago, I used to go painting with him every Sunday morning. He is a water colour painter and his works are displayed on the walls of vegetarian restaurants in Totnes as well as the on the walls of palaces of Himalayan Maharajas. He has […]