Category: Speculum
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Forever beautiful
Age is just a number really… and every age has its beauty. I think as women we need to embrace our age, celebrate it. To be honest, I actually feel better now in my late 50s than when I was young. Sure, things are slipping and sliding, there’s hair in weird places and things don’t […]
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Making lemonade…
what’s that line? if life throws you lemons, make lemonade… well I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and you know, I think I’d rather just enjoy the lemon as is. Too much sugar in lemonade… makes you thirsty and gives you spots, doesn’t it?! Anyway lemons are gorgeous. yesterday I made roast […]
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Poetry and dream…
For the second weekend in a row I’ve made my way along the treelined Southbank in the spring rain to see the Lichtenstein exhibition at the Tate Modern… I still haven’t seen it. It’s a popular one. It doesn’t matter. I love this building. This space. I love roaming through the exhibits. Poetry and dream… […]
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Cet amour…
you may dream of other things… but you should know that i dream of you… i thought it would pass. i was wrong. maybe one day. now… your voice, written or spoken, swirls around me… sweetens my dreams. that is all. Cet amour Si violent Si fragile Si tendre Si désespéré Cet amour Beau comme […]
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Escape route…
Ever have one of those days where you plot and plan your escape route? I do. Rather frequently. Routine and the Monday to Friday 9-5 is a bore. Luckily the content is sufficiently entertaining that it’s bearable. In any case seems it must be endured till the children are grown and have successfully flown the […]
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Secrets to happiness…
So, TED has curated a little playlist of talks on happiness… Fascinating stuff. All along the continuum between psychography and behaviour… Freedom. Choice. Power of smiling. Less stuff, more happiness. Habit of smiling. Going with the flow. Create aspirations… Check out the talks here: http://www.ted.com/playlists/4/what_makes_us_happy.html Find it rather curious that all 9 talks are by […]
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Mondays…
Ah Monday… my old friend…. or frenemy, should I say… Yes, it’s true. We don’t generally get along. It’s not for want of trying. We always start off on the right foot and I don’t know why or how but eventually it all goes pear shaped, doesn’t it… recently, there was the Monday that my […]
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Living Daylights…
i turned on the television yesterday while busy pottering, free of thoughts of you for a change, only to see Bond in Vienna… the scene in the giant wheel with the cellist… reminded me of you and how we too once, not so long ago, went round in an old wooden carriage on that very […]
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Ragas at twilight…
And now Ravi Shankar! another great who was at it right up to the end… “The beauty of our music is the ability to improvise endlessly,” he once said, “and that is my forte – I never know what I am going to do in the next two seconds, and that is still a great […]
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Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune…
The news arrived in a text message… it wasn’t a surprise but it hit hard. I wrote about my friend Ian in an earlier post and the news was about his passing… before we made peace and I will forever regret that I did not contact him sooner. Grief is a terrible thing, a powerful […]