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    Perseverance

    I hold dear the distant glow of happiness and I’m drawn to it like a moth attracted to light.  

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    Strength In Weakness

    I want to talk to you about finding strength in weakness. I am vulnerable, and I feel there is only so much I can do to solve my weaknesses. I’m deeply touched by those who claim to be helpful,...

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    • Damn, Sam, you look like a new man! Is it real or is it memorex? or serious plastic surgery? Looking very good, my friend!

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    Tuned In

    I would like to know what your heart beat sounds like as you fall asleep To tune my inhalations to your breaths and maybe feel what it must be like to be so completely yours

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    • Yes, to enclose yourself in another human being…to go all in….to experience the full depth of love is a heavy and emotional experience but one that’s worth it.

    • Thoughts as these are what give dreams life. Indeed. 🌼

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    'No Dad, We Won't Be Home Tonight'

    For eighteen months before   alzheimer’s shred his soul  I trapped my father’s voice  in the answering machine    Palimpsest of tobacco teak  lay over his Nottingham dialect,  did Robin Hood fire similar phonemes  into the deepest of oak?      The familiar sibilants which once read me into  other universes in...

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    • My father had dementia. I have written notes but no answering machine voice which would be really great. You’re lucky. You have some unique writing here. Glad I read this. Good one.

    • I wasn’t expecting the pictures this painted with words. It was so vivid that I could feel those memories even though they weren’t my own.

    • That’s a really moving and powerful piece. The way you capture your father’s voice and the layers of memory, from the “palimpsest of tobacco teak” to the echo of his working life, is just beautiful. It really makes you feel the weight of what’s been lost and the preciousness of that preserved memory.

    • Profound ink Ghosteen.

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