‘I really like it. It looks beautiful, the colours are lush and it’s a refreshing perspective on the world. I love the idea of excellent dates engaging with Pliny’s figs and mushrooms, your thought provoking note on innocence, and the concept of the songs of men deep in the heart of grape buds’ – Nicki
Bursting the boundaries
A wonderful comment on life - you can come up with as many fine formulae as you like, it will sooner or later defy our clever definitions. Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Part of me says, 'Thank goodness'. For other comments on this elusive thing called...
Merry in the greenwood
Something blithe and enchanting about this description of the man she loves, before she realises that he loves her. He is resilient, upstanding, independent, kind, and merry. She loves him from the get-go, as he does her, though her belief in that takes some...
The breath of happiness
Ivan is a character, apparently based on Vasily Grossman's brother-in-law, who survived 30 years in a gulag before being released into 'normal' life. He is resilient enough to be able to rediscover the existence of love and kindness, as well as simple beauty and...
A tumble of place and memory
Golding sails from island to island on a land and sea alternating odyssey, and at some point, overwhelmed by enchantment, his memory of moments...
Sunrise at Chios
What a dazzling description of watching a sunrise from a ship, contrasted perfectly with a preceding sunset. The miracle of both, eternal and...
Ping-pong purposeful
The capacity of otters to play and to turn anything they find into a game, is breath-taking. Here is one, having worked out the ludic possibilities...
A seal of affection
An astonishing account of a newborn seal pup responding to a passing cuddle from a human. I liked too that in the end his mother's love, even in a...
Live wisely, live well
Isn't this all we're trying to do when we talk about 'sustainability', 'circular economy', or climate change? When it's put so simply, it sounds...
Pale blue and gold
Spring mornings, perfectly wrapped up in two glowing hues.  And here, enjoy another evocative combination of blue and gold. ... the splendour of...
A perfect moment
Golding describes a moment, a scene, on the island of Corfu, experienced during his own odyssey in search of Ithaka. I like that he wants us to...
Begin afresh
A soughing sense of spring surging in the dense-leaved trees.  You can hear the branches, brushing against each other in the dancing breeze,...
Teaching the tree
A step in the process of creation, where the Creator takes a moment to teach the tree its leaf. They learned well, and this is the season we see...
Because love is kindness
After decades in a concentration camp, this man finds love in kindness. After being released from the clutches of the gulag, he rents a room in the...
Of life and lilac
This man is one who returns from the dead, from decades in a gulag in Siberia, released during one or another political thaw. He returns to...
Unsullied attitude
Shirley is among the less known works of Charlotte Bronte. At a time when women had considerably fewer options in deploying their energies and...
As long as you’re alive
One day I decided not to rely solely on Charlton Heston's interpretation of El Cid but to go to the original (with the aid of a parallel...
Oh you later travellers
I'm always touched by people connecting to us from the past, throwing their light into an unknown future in addressing, in a human and friendly way,...
Leaning into the light
The candour of this statement struck me, and also reassured me that my own paltry attempts at living a 'moral and compassionate existence' are no...
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