In a garden
Of daisies
Tulips
And freesias
A pink
Sundress
Accompanied
By a soft pashmina
Where dainty
Ballet flats
Are muddied
Because
The desire
To become
One with
The flowers
Supersedes
Any notion
Of propriety
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Notes
This is a song and a story from the north east of England - specifically the city of Sunderland and even more specifically The Wearmouth Bridge. It was there in 2018 that an eighteen year old girl called Paige Hunter wrestled with the possibility of killing herself.
At the age of fourteen, she had been raped by a stranger and ever after she lived in mental torment. Standing on that bridge she was coaxed down by two men in a van. In effect they saved her life.
In the years that have followed, Paige has regularly returned to the bridge in order to tie tiny notes to the structure - notes that encourage potentially suicidal people to stop and think again.
A local band called The Young 'Uns picked up Paige's story and turned it into a song called "Tiny Notes". This video gives a taste of the song as well as an interview with Paige Hunter. I guess a lot of suicides could be thwarted by kindness - by people reaching out. Very often you don't need to die - there's a way forward for those who live with despair...
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Firmament
The Northern Lights
Once in while, British news agencies will announce that something quite exciting is about to happen in the night sky. It might be a shower of meteors, a partial eclipse, an alignment of planets or maybe a glimpse of the northern lights above The North Pole - dancing as though in a discotheque.
Experience has taught me not to get very excited about these astral phenomena. Any time I have ever been out to look, my quest has ended miserably. Maybe it was to do with cloud cover, poor timing or simply failing to look in the correct segment of the night sky. Anyway, success has always eluded me.
Normally, I don't bother any more but on Friday night after Hull City had capitulated to Sheffield United live on Sky Sports, I decided to drive up to the moors beyond Ringinglow. The TV people had half promised that The Northern Lights might be visible in darkness, unpolluted by urban lighting.
So there I was, in blackness, standing by my faithful car Clint looking towards the northern skies at 22.30 hrs.. There was light out there but nothing that might resemble the famous natural light show. I tried to take some photographs but it was hopeless as you can see from my surreal picture which quite ironically I have titled "The Northern Lights".
In future, I think I will be best just ignoring any news about the heavens above. Instead, I will simply look up from time to time to see what I can see. I don't need any names or signs, co-ordinates or constellations. After all, the beauty of a clear night sky in velvet darkness is enough on its own. Stars behind stars reaching as far back as we can imagine. One of the amazing sights that looks upon us as we progress through these very short lives.
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Peace
Coffee and music
Are my companions
This rainy morning
Thankful that
Life is beautiful
With my family
Joyous
And peace
Is within
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Goodness
Good news needs spreading around. There's too much bad news these days. I am sure that several visitors will have heard this news item from Nashville, Tennessee. It happened on Tuesday evening and it involved the rock star - Jon Bov Jovi.
He and his band were filming on The Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge when they became aware that a woman in a distressed state was standing on the bridge's parapet threatening to jump.
Jon Bon Jovi and his assistant sidled up to the scene and gently set about talking the woman to safety. Fortunately, they succeeded and afterwards the rock star comforted the woman with a warm hug.
I should say that at its highest point the bridge is only sixteen feet tall so it is very likely that the woman would not have been killed it she had jumped. Her mind must have been in a terrible state of confusion. In fact, looking at her blue outfit, I wonder if she had recently been under medical supervision.
My impression is that Jon Bon Jovi is one of the good guys. He has done various other kind and charitable things in his life as a rock star - including improving housing projects, supporting veterans, funding soup kitchens for the needy and raising money for disaster relief in Haiti.
Good lad Jon! You didn't walk on by.
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Cape days
Thinking back
On travel
From years
Gone by
The seaside days
Savoring buttered
Lobster
And red potatoes
Hydrangeas
In pinks
Purples
And the lightest
Sky blues
Striped swimwear
Linen coverups
Barefooted
Sandy
And sated
In summer sun
Cape days
The soul aglow
In natural bliss
Set off
By the scent
Of Hawaiian Tropic
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