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2025 Grateful 27: Sunflowers and silence

This is one of my favourite times of year. Apart from the heat. I hate the heat. Today, though, it’s a blessedly cool 16 degrees

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paved driveway with a bunch of bamboo stalks lying on the ground _ a wheelbarrow of bamboo leaves _ a stand of bamboo _ and a green iron bench

2025 Grateful 28: The gift that keeps on giving

We’re five years into an 18-month renovation. We’re at the point now where I walk into a room and feel not the anxiety of yore

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Newspaper page framed - headline reads: Chief Superintendent James Murphy moves into civvy street.

2025 Grateful 29: Tangible memories

This day, two years ago, I woke up without my father. He’d died shortly after midnight. He’d been hanging on, I’m sure, for the feast

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View through my clean window from a window out over a lake with hills in the background

2025 Grateful 30: The American is coming

If it weren’t for Americans, nothing would get done. Not in my house, anyway. And not all Americans, just those who visit. And not nothing,

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One starry, starry night

How little I know about space and space agencies is embarrassing. Mind you, this lack of knowledge hasn’t kept me awake at night and until

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2025 Grateful 31: No excuses

I was in Poland, many moons ago, for a friend’s wedding. I remember hearing Panis Angelicus for the first time and being moved to tears.

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2025 Grateful 32: Public scrutiny

A few weeks back, Robert Francis Prevost was catapulted onto the world stage. He went from being low-key famous to world famous in a matter

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2025 Grateful 33: Person and idea

Four books into David Crosby’s Will Harper series, I sat back and thought, okay, that’s new. I like crime novels. If they’re well written, I

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Man in grey hair and glasses smiling as he stands in front of a wall of photos

Finding delight in the ordinary

It seems like an easy thing, to find beauty in everyday life. Yet for many of us, including myself, it requires a conscious effort, particularly

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Graffiti on a wall that reads: Worry is a misuse of imagination

2025 Grateful 34: The good life

Visiting friends in a neighbouring village the other night, we worked ourselves into a right old lather discussing what’s going on in the world. The

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