Today I happened to read a children’s poem by the famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. (1850-94). He lived in Edinburgh and you “can meet him” at the Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh where some of his belongings are shown. His Treasure Island was performed at my oldest boy’s school back in 1986 by pupils from six years’ old to twelve […]
“Share a photo inspired by a poem, story ” from the Photo Challenge “Half-Light” from the Daily Post, a recurring event on Fridays. Ode to a Grecian Urn by John Keats the fifth and last verse: O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out […]
Six years ago my beloved mother died in October. What I had feared as a child just happened. She said every autumn, that she had taken “the last Rose of the summer” from the garden. She was a rose herself. Always thinking about us her children and keeping her correspondence with many people all over family and friends. If she didn’t […]
From one Heart to Another 