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More journal excerpts – September and October 2026
Posted on October 28, 2026 Leave a Comment
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A childhood memory
Posted on October 16, 2026 Leave a Comment
I don’t remember much from the times before my age attained double figures. But I see mangos, large, oval shaped, with a projection like a parrot’s beak at one end. Parrot mangoes. An obvious name. I can still smell them; I can still taste them. But it is the tree that stands out in my […]
The Miller and the Brook
Posted on March 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
I once heard a piece of music that bowled me over. It was a song written over two hundred years ago. It featured a baritone voice and a piano. It was sung in German. It was called Der muller und der bach (the miller and the brook). I didn’t understand the words. I didn’t need […]
Baring my soul
Posted on April 20, 2024 Leave a Comment
I harbour a self-perception that I have no dark, subterranean forces simmering within me. You know the sort of forces, buried deep most of the time, but, triggered by a provocation, manifesting in a sudden, hot, volcanic eruption or a cold act of revenge. I once mentioned at work that my darkest forces were no […]
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