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and memories of things I never knew
WORDS FOR A NEW STORY
Order is just a story. Being is love.
My Vision
We all hold gifts that we must give to the world. We cannot do this alone. We must witness each other and in that witnessing, remember love. We hold the power to heal each other and therefore, ourselves.
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Trumpets Sound, Shimmering Sound
Daniel De Gruchy-Lambert on a Tuesday in Brum It had been raining on Tuesday morning. The homeless people had already queued for their...
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Feb 17 min read
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Teach Me
A poem in devotion to the lessons of the night
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Oct 5, 20241 min read
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Beauty on Earth is Sublime
Come, come, let me tell you how I am changing…  There have been moments recently when beauty has visited me in a groaning pain which...
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Aug 19, 20243 min read
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Errands of Love
I am searching for answers To the shadows of my heart, Spiralling in last night's dream, Where a swollen woman (me), Is telling lies in a...
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Aug 11, 20241 min read
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The Story of Separation is a Lie
There are many things I don’t want to see. Things outside me that hurt. I don’t want to see someone being criticised on national TV. I...
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Aug 4, 20243 min read
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Prayer To Light
There are more avenues to light than seconds in my life.
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Mar 28, 20241 min read
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The Return Journey
Listen to the Audio: There is a truth now, for me, in the myth of the hero’s journey. That of leaving home and entering the belly of the...
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Feb 2, 20246 min read
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Nonfiction | How We Cancel Wonder
I watched a Youtube video of Russel Brand interviewing Vandana Shiva about the nature of globalisation – he asked something like ‘what...
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Feb 1, 20243 min read
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Unless we still ourselves
Unless we still ourselves, We will never witness Who we are. So we will never know. And we will continue To be used by the systems In...
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Nov 7, 20231 min read
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Our Spectacular Lives
In the flame there is truth, It is inside you, in stillness, Like the middle of the night, Held tight between the days, The stillness you...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Nonfiction | How We Cancel Wonder
I watched a Youtube video of Russel Brand interviewing Vandana Shiva about the nature of globalisation – he asked something like ‘what...
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Dec 27, 20213 min read
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Nonfiction | Rain
The rain today in Ivrea is spectacular in its ordinariness, it gifts me the idea of humility. There are days when change, like from a...
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Oct 5, 20212 min read
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Nonfiction | The Stranger and The Low Five
So another weekend has gone, another block of time. Another two mornings, two lunchtimes, another change. The flowers on my balcony moved...
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Mar 29, 20214 min read
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Nonfiction | My Experience of Milan
The light in Milan is yellow. In the day the balconies and buildings are shades of yellow, drawing up colour from the changing sky gleam...
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Dec 10, 20202 min read
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Poetry with audio | The Sky Inside
Listen to the audio When I get scared I remember There is a sky inside me With all its birds and higher Still, its stars, beyond that,...
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Aug 22, 20201 min read
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Nonfiction| Prurient Interests
Some matters are of the present, they fire up from deep inside and explode on the scene. We can prepare as best we can for this...
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Jul 27, 20204 min read
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Nonfiction | On Stories
It’s trendy to say things along the lines of the world is made of stories or we are a story or we need words for a new story. What does...
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Jul 9, 20207 min read
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Nonfiction | On Mountains and Sea
The height of sky and rock is something like the relief of a thirst quenched, before the mind races, the relief in the moment between...
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Jul 7, 20203 min read
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Nonfiction | I Will Not Be Afraid
I will not be afraid of them, I will not be afraid of that, I will not be afraid of the dark, I will not be afraid of what I don't know,...
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Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Nonfiction | Maxims of Woman
You are not a story; any story you are told about yourself is an insult to the possibilities of your grace One learns about perfection in...
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Jun 28, 20201 min read
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