We shared no spoken language but she held me and stroked my face, my tears, with her humanity and strength. A gifted moment. We sat in her Father’s Garden, thick woven cloths on crusts of soil under the shade of date palms, beside rows of carrots and greens, desert dunes all around us. My new […]
The old dog walks a few paces, sniffs the air, then turns and looks back, checking up on the woman. In the western sky a quarter moon hangs. The woman is a silhouette against the evening sky. I watch her slow steps; she is hunched over a walker. Her white cardigan sits over her light […]
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I drive along the bay into suburbs I once knew and pass a sad, forgotten place. I park and walk settling into the reverent ambiance, looking for letters and numbers. It is 34 years since I stepped on this grass. Finally I find Lawn D, Row F of the Cemetery. The numbers are not logical, […]
I slept in the pink room at Ty Newydd; the house built in the 1700’s, now the National Centre for Writing in Wales. It was rumoured that Lloyd George, Liberal Prime Minister of the UK from 1916 – 1922 died in this room. It was also rumoured he died in the library. No matter, there […]
