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Thank you - it contains an allusion to TS Eliot's Prufrock - are you familiar with it? You might enjoy reading it. Thanks again for your encouragement :)

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there ya go! If I didn't move so many times, I'd probably be finding stuff too - that's one test if anything's good - if it still speaks to you, then it's survived the test of time and is worth sharing

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was wondering when you'd get around to incorporating your art into your posts - for those who wonder, it's like Leonard Cohen said, the poetry and the songs are all one - as for old guy and his comment

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Thanks, Deb :)

Then I guess this app wouldn't help - I used it to locate keys with my phone - and reading glasses etc, but my phone always stays with me in my pocket - that's just the rule :)

A beautiful photo of a delicate bloom, @slowwalker. You were able to detach yourself from the flower and edit the photo to bring out its fragile beauty. The Lotus itself is the very symbol of detachment

A gated house enclosed by a huge wall - I wonder who is being walled in or walled out? I'm always intrigued by houses with nobody in them - this one reminds me of a Joyce Kilmer poem: I never have seen

I wonder how many artists mislay works in progress and never find them? - at least you did, Alan. Me? I do my best work on restaurant napkins. Deb's given up on buying me nice notebooks...as for my study,

That last news item is a real head-scratcher. I remember a few years back waking up to no electricity - it lasted two days - seems someone removed the nuts from the base of a huge electrical tower and

Church people's contradictions can be the source of humour - for example, the evangelicals in the States who support Trump - not sure what they're so evangelical about when everything he says and does

You are so intuitive, Arthur - yes, you grasp the music and not just the notes :)

She does have her own pet. Believe it or not though, she prefers humans - must be the poodle in her :)

Well, no one can say you're not true to your commitments, Alan. That should give Chris some solace, although I suspect she's the one who makes sure Trixie and Max stay safely behind that strong iron fence.

so true...

The Russian poet, Yevtushenko, wrote: as we get older, we get honester...and that's a consolation I suppose. We see the bankruptcy of pretence and are more authentic. I was once told I had the mind of