‘Turn a page, and you find a new distraction, or another version of reality. Is this not the search for a fuller kind of experience? Art, which helps us focis on our quality of life, might also inspire a richer understanding of our mortal existence.’ ‘There’s nothing straightforward in the relationship a thoughtful person hasContinue reading “Every Third Thought – On Life, Death, and the End Game, by Robert McCrum”
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A poem for Nan
To visit you meant eatingsausage rolls and doughnuts,coffee with milk warmed in a pan,expanding (like my waistline) like a comet heated by the sunlike that one we saw in ‘97from your balcony that Saturdaycame round to watch the lotto made a wish, prayed to heavenMystic Meg would make us winners,Never did tell us those numbers.WeContinue reading “A poem for Nan”
