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Celebrating 4 years on Medium — It will soon be 4 years since I started writing on Medium. I was in before there was a subscription and initially Medium promoted my stories which probably explains the higher ratings up until 2018. I still write but I don’t pay a subscription which means my stories are free…

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My 21  most-read stories
My 21  most-read stories
Mostread

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10 hours ago

Pauline, remembering a friend

Yesterday I received a WhatsApp message from a friend in Galway, Ireland informing me that a good friend had passed from this world. I was reminded of the story of Moses when he was a baby, for his safety, he was placed in a basket among the bull rushes…

Friendship

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Pauline, remembering a friend
Pauline, remembering a friend
Friendship

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5 days ago

Starter for 10, where the classes mix

In 2006 I was in the throes of parenthood, Ciara would have been aged 6. I am beginning to think I missed a few things one of which was the film, ‘Starter for 10’. I caught up 17 years later thanks to BBC iplayer. Starter for 10 (film) - Wikipedia Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted…en.wikipedia.org The film features a lot of…

Starter For 10

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Starter for 10, where the classes mix
Starter for 10, where the classes mix
Starter For 10

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Jan 22

These three remain Faith, Politics and Community

In the place where you are born, you are raised in the way of those who cared for you and the community in which you live. You are given a name, a language, an accent and a place, “You are the child of …….” When you grow older you may…

Faith

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These three remain Faith, Politics and Community
These three remain Faith, Politics and Community
Faith

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Jan 19

Every moment is pregnant with what is to be born, we just release it.

“Now when Jesus saw a great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.” Matthew Chapter 8 v 18 I heard an interview with Hilary Mantel the other week in which she spoke of being inside the mind of Thomas Cromwell when she wrote Wolf Hall…

Jesus

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Every moment is pregnant with what is to be born, we just release it.
Every moment is pregnant with what is to be born, we just release it.
Jesus

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Jan 14

Beautiful Boy

I watched Beautiful Boy yesterday evening. The title is lifted from the words of the father of the ‘Beautiful Boy. The film is based on David Sheff’s bestselling memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction”. Steve Carell who plays David Sheff (the father) who I like seemed…

Beautiful Boy

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Beautiful Boy

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Jan 14

What I do affects you

I was reading the Bulletin from the Krishnamurti Foundation “And we are responsible for whatever happens in the field of this consciousness. That is, if I am violent, I am adding violence to this consciousness common to all of us. …

Krishnamurti

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What I do affects you
What I do affects you
Krishnamurti

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Jan 12

The Marginalian, Conscious Cafe, Simonne’s book launch all in an unexpected afternoon

Over the Christmas period, I came across The Marginalian. It seems at this time each year something such as this falls my way. Maybe it is because I have slowed down, I like to think it is a gift from Christmas. The Marginalian Jeanne Villepreux-Power (September 24, 1794-January 25, 1871) was eleven when her mother died. Just before her…www.themarginalian.org I was just scrolling through when I came across…

The Marginalian

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The Marginalian, Conscious Cafe, Simonne’s book launch all in an unexpected afternoon
The Marginalian, Conscious Cafe, Simonne’s book launch all in an unexpected afternoon
The Marginalian

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Jan 7

Seeking advice later in life from someone you trusted in youth

Is it easier to make friends in youth than in middle age? — Dear M Elliott, I hope now that we have been reacquainted that you know that your kindness and indeed your interactions with me as a teenager left quite a deposit. It has been as life continued that I realise, simply by being you, you taught me a lot. Now I…

Letters

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Seeking advice later in life from someone you trusted in youth
Seeking advice later in life from someone you trusted in youth
Letters

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Jan 6

What was your year of maximum coolness?

The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto / 642 Things to write/prompt 6 — Coolness is not a word I associate with myself. If anything I associate it with others. So if I was cool it was in the company of those I thought cool. Whenever I think of an age I felt so alive it was 15. …

Writing Prompts

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Writing Prompts

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Speaks with a Northern Irish accent, lives in Hertfordshire, England.

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