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Thought-Dwelling

by Lydia December 5, 2022

Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.

Lucy Mallory
December 5, 2022
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Virtuosos and Artists

by Lydia November 22, 2022

Virtuosos do incredible things within preset conventions through maximizing technical or mechanical skills. Artists, on the other hand, reveal the staid conventions underlying cultural activity and posit a “solution” of rival conventions.

Links on Culture – November 2022 by W. David Marx
November 22, 2022
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Beachcomber

by Lydia October 27, 2022

Friday I held a seaman’s skull,
Sand spilling from it
The way time is told on kirkyard stones.

Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown
October 27, 2022
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Avoiding Pain

by Lydia October 7, 2022

Students are not fools. They were, after all, once young children who if they reached too close to an open flame might well have gotten a smack on the hand, or a scary lecture about the dangers of third degree burns (skin grafts, my child, unimaginable pain) and never did it again. Decades later they too often apply those same lessons to writing: red ink = bad. Do not do that again. Which, in turn, risks molding a young writer into someone who forsakes creativity into someone whose core skill is avoiding pain.

Writerland Chapter 79: Don’t Be So Mean by Michael Shapiro

Emphasis mine.

October 7, 2022
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Burn So Bright

by Lydia October 1, 2022

You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why

Common People by Pulp
October 1, 2022
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The Time Between the Lights

by Lydia September 26, 2022

It was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification and purples and golds burn in window-panes like the beat of an excitable heart; when for some reason the beauty of the world revealed and yet soon to perish […], the beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
September 26, 2022
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Autumn

by Lydia September 23, 2022

Breaking camp in this way always comes with a hop, skip and a jump! All of a sudden everything is different, and if you’re going to move on you’re careful to make use of every single minute, you pull up your tent pegs and douse the fire quickly before anyone can stop you or start asking questions, you start running, pulling on your rucksack as you go, and finally you’re on your way and suddenly quite calm, like a solitary tree with every single leaf completely still. Your camping-site is an empty rectangle of bleached grass. Late in the morning your friends wake and say: he’s gone away, autumn’s coming.

Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
September 23, 2022
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Clear Ideas

by Lydia September 21, 2022

Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn’t even realise that they had forgotten.

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
September 21, 2022
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Tell Stories

by Lydia September 14, 2022

In Scotland when people congregate they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney they tell stories.

An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
September 14, 2022
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Elosa

Take one Southern and one Northern. Throw in two determined (very) young women and their four-legged guardian and partner in crime. Immerse in the Highlands.

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