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Dear Wen: Heaven ‘n’ Earth…

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen, ‘An older tradition’ is always a good place to start, and ‘ponder’ certainly has a watery aspect to it, though ‘charming the mind’ should, perhaps, be enchanting the mind… It is clear that the ancients had a far … Continue reading →

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Dear Don: Old Moore’s…

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don, I suppose it was a case of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ on a grand scale… which almost always leads to going with ‘bigger and better’…or at least a mistaken perception of it… I thought you might have … Continue reading →

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Dear Wen: Old Moore’s…

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen, Well, it may be a palace but it is still only a ‘semi, which sort of also lends new meaning to the term, ‘Gated Institution’. ‘Gates’ being how the Caryatids are now described, and it is not your … Continue reading →

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Dear Don: Shadow-play…

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don, The ‘Facing Fear’ weekend proved to be uncannily prophetic… and its location has been in the news a good deal lately, used as an example of the heroism of the willing sacrifice of life and freedom. ‘Willing’ being … Continue reading →

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Dear Wen: Shadow-play…

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen, Wishing there were more of us is an admirable place to start. Imagine how many more people and how much more quickly they would have awoken had more of them ventured forth on our ‘Facing Fears’ weekend. The … Continue reading →

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Dear Don: ‘lunatic fringe’…

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don, As a proud member of the lunatic fringe, anything I might say would be complimentary. Seriously, if thinking for yourself… even being at a tangent to reality… gains you that epithet, then I just wish there were more … Continue reading →

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Dear Wen: ‘lunatic fringe’…

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen, Ah, I have it… It was dusk. I even have some photographs, taken during our brief sojourn, of the moon. Perhaps then, it is a sort of ‘Moon Madness’ from the lunatic fringe of the moor, as it … Continue reading →

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Masks of Sod

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …For those of you who have not yet realised, the preceding monographs have followed, relatively closely, the lines laid out by the Danish Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, in his master-work, ‘Fear and Trembling’. Quite apart from his unquestionble literary genius … Continue reading →

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Walking the line…

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Sue Vincent

“… so fear was originally there to help us survive.” “Yep… and with not many sabre-tooth tigers roaming the suburbs, we found other things to fear. And fear is intimately linked to how we judge people.” “How so?” It was … Continue reading →

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Names Matter: nimmy nimmy not…

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Well, she felt that horrud. Howsomediver, she hard the king a coming along the passage. In he came, an’ when he sees the five skeins, he says, ‘Well, me dare I don’t see what ye will ha’ your skeins … Continue reading →

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