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Welcome to my website.  This is where I can share my writing and get feedback.  I will add new pieces regularly so I hope you will visit often, and will contribute comments.

I like writing about the inner story of things, a theology or philosophy of the everyday.  It is a process of befriending the questions or the thoughts that surprise you and discovering where they might lead, exploring the inside skin you can sometimes glimpse that holds worlds together.

Some of my ideas I have gleaned from other writers.  Hopefully there is something in my writing that you can take and run with in your own way.

Words of Keeping

Lighting fires

Submitted on 26 Feb 2010

It is light now when I rise, a pearly haze of pre-dawn glimmer that lets me see shapes without needing a lamp.  By the time I come down into the garden the day has broken fully, but no sun to be seen, just a blanket of grey filling the sky and the lattice of trees.  It is so wet everywhere, puddles and pools on any surface that will hold them, and drops lining every branch.   read more »


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Inner Wellies

Wellies

Each morning
I’m going to put on
my inner wellies
so I can splosh and slop
through all the floods and mud
life sends me
instead of tiptoeing round the edge
or getting stuck in the muck.