Category: Hope
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Full Circle
NothingMeCheshireEnglandThe EarthThe GalaxyThe UniverseThe MultiverseEverythingThe ImaginationThe MindMy MindMeNothing. Sideview’s weekend theme this week is The Circle. I’ve cheated somewhat this week, by recycling one of my posts from yesteryear, which highlights one particular circle on a grand scale. Or not so grand, depending on the point of view. Everything starts and ends with us. How…
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Opportunity Knocked?
The Loch Ness Monster stared at me for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes! Tilting its head from one side to the other, as if trying to work me out. At one point, it stretched its long neck forward, as if trying to get a closer look. Its tongue licked the air, and it constantly blinked its…
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Sommat Good?
An’ when the words just fail to form The time to write’s not right But is it right to write any words Or only them what’s right? My words tonight are out of sight My form is not on form But are my words tonight wrote right And this is jus’ the norm? Right words,…
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Bah, Humbug! It’s Valentine’s!
“Valentine’s what?” one of my teachers would have said to me centuries ago when I was in school, if I’d have dared write something as I did the header of today’s post. “I’m waiting!” She would have glared over her thick-rimmed glasses, steam bellowing out of her nostrils individually. Bony fingers tapping the wooden desk…
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Offa’s Wheel
I wonder what went behind the invention of the wheel? Was it created after many months of trials of objects of varying shapes and sizes by our Stone Age ancestors until they got it right? Or perhaps the wheel had been invented many eons earlier than the Stone Age, and kept a closely guarded secret,…