Robert Ford
@robertmford.bsky.social
Writer, community builder, & devoted tea drinker 🍵✨—on a mission to find the stories that connect us, spark empathy, and make the world a bit kinder (one cuppa at a time).
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Next Time — an essay about waiting, and what changes once it’s noticed.
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Read / share if it lands.
#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
Next Time
This is an essay about waiting—how it forms, what it teaches, and what it quietly takes with it.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Next Time — an essay about waiting, and what changes once it’s noticed.
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Read / share if it lands.
#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
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Read / share if it lands.
#Writing #Essays #Attention #Memory
Some turns aren’t yours to take.
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat
Stayed in Her Seat
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January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Some turns aren’t yours to take.
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
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#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
Stayed in Her Seat — a story about restraint, attention, and the ethics of staying put.
www.brittleviews.com/p/stayed-in-...
#LiteraryFiction #UnresolvedMoments #EthicalRestraint
New short story: What Needed Doing.
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
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#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-neede...
#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
What Needed Doing
Some stories come from memory.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
New short story: What Needed Doing.
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-neede...
#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
A childhood illness. A box of photographs. The way attention teaches its limits without saying so.
Nothing dramatic happens.
That’s where the story is.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-neede...
#shortstory #literaryfiction #silence #substack
What was made public, and what was allowed to arrive, aren’t the same thing.
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
What Was Made Public
On access, attention, and the refusal of arrival
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January 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
What was made public, and what was allowed to arrive, aren’t the same thing.
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
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#Politics #Media #Attention
An essay on access, attention, and the quiet mechanics that let something remain visible without ever quite being heard.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-was-m...
#Politics #Media #Attention
A sign suggests a safer route.
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
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#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
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#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
The Turn Not Taken
The Turn Not Taken
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December 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A sign suggests a safer route.
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-turn-n...
#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
No one asks who put it there.
People adjust anyway.
A new Maggie B. Casefile—about small permissions, quiet hesitation, and the paths we don’t quite stop thinking about.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-turn-n...
#ShortFiction #MaggieB #SmallMoments #QuietAuthority
A short story.
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
The Spare Key
Some things change while we’re away.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A short story.
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
Something has been adjusted.
Nothing has been acknowledged.
The Spare Key.
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#ShortFiction #Silence #Boundaries #Literary
New short piece: Minutes.
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
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#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
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#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
Minutes
This story isn’t in The Shape of Silence. It’s new. That book is finished, and this isn’t a stray that wandered out of it after the fact.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New short piece: Minutes.
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
www.brittleviews.com/p/minutes
#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A room, a set of documents, and the calm certainty of things being “recorded as understood.” Small gestures. No raised voices.
www.brittleviews.com/p/minutes
#writing #shortfiction #literaryfiction #bureaucracy
A woman spoke.
Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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She Spoke First
On what’s offered, what’s taken as given, and the quiet certainty of leaving a moment as it is.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A woman spoke.
Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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Maggie listened.
Everything else is commentary.
She Spoke First.
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A small thing appears where a boundary is supposed to behave itself. No one claims it. No one corrects it.
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
Allowed To Remain
On what’s allowed, what’s tolerated, and the quiet authority of leaving things where they stand.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A small thing appears where a boundary is supposed to behave itself. No one claims it. No one corrects it.
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
A story about restraint, tolerance, and what happens when nothing is moved.
Read, share & subscribe if you’d like more.
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#literaryfiction #shortstory #quietfiction #MaggieB
A drawer jammed.
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
The Note That Changed Itself
Narrated by the author
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December 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A drawer jammed.
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
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If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
A note shifted.
Funny how the smallest breach can open something you weren’t ready to face.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-note-t...
If it resonates, a reshare helps it travel.
#WritingCommunity #Fiction #LiteraryFiction
New Maggie B. story up today.
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
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If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
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If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
The Way It Was Placed
On what’s moved, what’s meant, and the quiet honesty of things left slightly askew.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
New Maggie B. story up today.
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
shorturl.at/Y5Z7l
If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
On mischief-as-language, unnoticed messages, and the kind of honesty that hides in plain sight (usually between marigolds).
shorturl.at/Y5Z7l
If it lands with you, a repost or follow helps this little village travel farther.
#MaggieBCasefiles #Fiction #BrittleViews
Rachel and David meet at the hospice, not to mourn, but to prepare — to steady what’s left, to be present for what’s coming.
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
Chapter Twenty-Six – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Rachel and David meet at the hospice, not to mourn, but to prepare — to steady what’s left, to be present for what’s coming.
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
A new installment of Holding On is up.
Read, reflect, or share if it lingers with you.
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#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #LiteraryFiction #EmotionalResilience
After a long journey home, I kept thinking about airports the way Maggie B does—places where people show more than they intend.
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#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
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If it lands with you, a repost or subscribe is always appreciated.
#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
Paths Not Yet Taken
On waiting spaces, small shifts, and the choices that stay with us.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
After a long journey home, I kept thinking about airports the way Maggie B does—places where people show more than they intend.
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If it lands with you, a repost or subscribe is always appreciated.
#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
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If it lands with you, a repost or subscribe is always appreciated.
#MaggieB #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory
Some stories come from the things we didn’t say, and the selves we handed away without noticing.
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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#writing #essays #healing
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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If it lands, a share or follow is always appreciated.
#writing #essays #healing
What Stayed Unsaid
There are things we carry without realising—half-formed thoughts, unsent messages, quieter versions of ourselves we didn’t yet know how to protect.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Some stories come from the things we didn’t say, and the selves we handed away without noticing.
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
www.brittleviews.com/p/what-staye...
If it lands, a share or follow is always appreciated.
#writing #essays #healing
This new piece is about what happens when we finally listen back.
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If it lands, a share or follow is always appreciated.
#writing #essays #healing
In Lower Tissington, even a scarf can cause a stir — especially one that travels, unravels, and refuses to stay where it’s placed.
This one finds its way to Maggie’s door.
And something in her shifts, too.
New Casefile: Stitched
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This one finds its way to Maggie’s door.
And something in her shifts, too.
New Casefile: Stitched
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Stitched
On wandering threads, quiet refusals, and truths that don’t stay put.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In Lower Tissington, even a scarf can cause a stir — especially one that travels, unravels, and refuses to stay where it’s placed.
This one finds its way to Maggie’s door.
And something in her shifts, too.
New Casefile: Stitched
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This one finds its way to Maggie’s door.
And something in her shifts, too.
New Casefile: Stitched
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New this week in Holding On:
Ralph drifts between waking and sleep. David stays behind — a quiet vigil, a son holding space.
It’s a chapter about breath, memory, and the grace of staying.
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#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #QuietFiction #Presence #Grief #HospiceStories
Ralph drifts between waking and sleep. David stays behind — a quiet vigil, a son holding space.
It’s a chapter about breath, memory, and the grace of staying.
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#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #QuietFiction #Presence #Grief #HospiceStories
Chapter Twenty-Five – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New this week in Holding On:
Ralph drifts between waking and sleep. David stays behind — a quiet vigil, a son holding space.
It’s a chapter about breath, memory, and the grace of staying.
shorturl.at/p1Ot6
#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #QuietFiction #Presence #Grief #HospiceStories
Ralph drifts between waking and sleep. David stays behind — a quiet vigil, a son holding space.
It’s a chapter about breath, memory, and the grace of staying.
shorturl.at/p1Ot6
#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #QuietFiction #Presence #Grief #HospiceStories
In Lower Tissington, scandal travels faster than tea cools.
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.
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#BrittleViews #MaggieB #WryComedy #QuietRealism #EnglishVillageLife #LiteraryFiction
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.
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#BrittleViews #MaggieB #WryComedy #QuietRealism #EnglishVillageLife #LiteraryFiction
Redacted for Biscuits
On lost pages, polite rebellions, and the mercies that smudge.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In Lower Tissington, scandal travels faster than tea cools.
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.
www.brittleviews.com/p/redacted-f...
#BrittleViews #MaggieB #WryComedy #QuietRealism #EnglishVillageLife #LiteraryFiction
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.
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#BrittleViews #MaggieB #WryComedy #QuietRealism #EnglishVillageLife #LiteraryFiction
A quiet one this week.
Ralph drifts between sleep and memory, Rachel and David find their footing over bad coffee, and a forgotten Barry White song brings the past home.
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#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #GriefAndGrace #QuietStories #EndOfLife #FamilyNarratives
Ralph drifts between sleep and memory, Rachel and David find their footing over bad coffee, and a forgotten Barry White song brings the past home.
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#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #GriefAndGrace #QuietStories #EndOfLife #FamilyNarratives
Chapter Twenty-Four – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A quiet one this week.
Ralph drifts between sleep and memory, Rachel and David find their footing over bad coffee, and a forgotten Barry White song brings the past home.
www.brittleviews.com/p/chapter-tw...
#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #GriefAndGrace #QuietStories #EndOfLife #FamilyNarratives
Ralph drifts between sleep and memory, Rachel and David find their footing over bad coffee, and a forgotten Barry White song brings the past home.
www.brittleviews.com/p/chapter-tw...
#HoldingOn #LiteraryFiction #GriefAndGrace #QuietStories #EndOfLife #FamilyNarratives
A borrowed key, a whisper, and a village that files gossip like minutes.
What happens when order gives way to kindness, and does mercy need to be written in ink to last?
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Come for the fuss. Stay for the mercy written in pencil.
What happens when order gives way to kindness, and does mercy need to be written in ink to last?
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Come for the fuss. Stay for the mercy written in pencil.
Signed in Pencil
On rumours, revisions, and the affections best signed in pencil.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A borrowed key, a whisper, and a village that files gossip like minutes.
What happens when order gives way to kindness, and does mercy need to be written in ink to last?
www.brittleviews.com/p/signed-in-...
Come for the fuss. Stay for the mercy written in pencil.
What happens when order gives way to kindness, and does mercy need to be written in ink to last?
www.brittleviews.com/p/signed-in-...
Come for the fuss. Stay for the mercy written in pencil.
Love’s paradox: heavy as breath, light as grace.
A poem for those who carry, and those who lift.
If it resonates, share it forward or subscribe.
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#Poetry #Reflection #Caregiving #Hope #BrittleViews
A poem for those who carry, and those who lift.
If it resonates, share it forward or subscribe.
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#Poetry #Reflection #Caregiving #Hope #BrittleViews
Love, Heavy as Light
How moments of freedom can change the weight of everything.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Love’s paradox: heavy as breath, light as grace.
A poem for those who carry, and those who lift.
If it resonates, share it forward or subscribe.
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#Poetry #Reflection #Caregiving #Hope #BrittleViews
A poem for those who carry, and those who lift.
If it resonates, share it forward or subscribe.
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#Poetry #Reflection #Caregiving #Hope #BrittleViews
When Audrey brings a clipboard, the evening rarely ends on time.
Motion Carried is part comedy, part quiet confession — about order, biscuits, and the grace of writing things down twice.
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🫖 New Maggie B. Casefile on Brittle Views.
Motion Carried is part comedy, part quiet confession — about order, biscuits, and the grace of writing things down twice.
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🫖 New Maggie B. Casefile on Brittle Views.
Motion Carried
On adjournments, biscuits, and the motions we carry long after the meeting ends.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
When Audrey brings a clipboard, the evening rarely ends on time.
Motion Carried is part comedy, part quiet confession — about order, biscuits, and the grace of writing things down twice.
www.brittleviews.com/p/motion-car...
🫖 New Maggie B. Casefile on Brittle Views.
Motion Carried is part comedy, part quiet confession — about order, biscuits, and the grace of writing things down twice.
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🫖 New Maggie B. Casefile on Brittle Views.
Peace never arrives — it returns.
In fragments, in breath, in the small permissions to stop holding everything together.
This week’s After the Noise reflection follows that rhythm back to stillness.
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#AfterTheNoise #Essays #Presence #BrittleViews
In fragments, in breath, in the small permissions to stop holding everything together.
This week’s After the Noise reflection follows that rhythm back to stillness.
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#AfterTheNoise #Essays #Presence #BrittleViews
The Quiet Work of Returning
How peace finds its rhythm again (Oct 20–25, 2025)
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October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Peace never arrives — it returns.
In fragments, in breath, in the small permissions to stop holding everything together.
This week’s After the Noise reflection follows that rhythm back to stillness.
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#AfterTheNoise #Essays #Presence #BrittleViews
In fragments, in breath, in the small permissions to stop holding everything together.
This week’s After the Noise reflection follows that rhythm back to stillness.
www.brittleviews.com/p/the-quiet-...
#AfterTheNoise #Essays #Presence #BrittleViews
The Calm That Never Was — an essay on what happens when false calm gives way to real peace.|
Stillness stops being performance and becomes presence.
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Stillness stops being performance and becomes presence.
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The Calm That Never Was
For a long time, I mistook calm for peace —
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October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Calm That Never Was — an essay on what happens when false calm gives way to real peace.|
Stillness stops being performance and becomes presence.
shorturl.at/0D8G8
If the quiet work of truth matters to you, share or subscribe.
#AfterTheNoise #Presence #QuietResistance #BrittleViews
Stillness stops being performance and becomes presence.
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If the quiet work of truth matters to you, share or subscribe.
#AfterTheNoise #Presence #QuietResistance #BrittleViews
When the noise fades, what’s left isn’t emptiness — it’s rhythm.
I explore how stillness shifts from recovery to daily practice, and how peace stops being escape and becomes attention that stays.
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#AfterTheNoise #Presence #Stillness #BrittleViews
I explore how stillness shifts from recovery to daily practice, and how peace stops being escape and becomes attention that stays.
Read / listen: www.brittleviews.com/p/the-practi...
#AfterTheNoise #Presence #Stillness #BrittleViews
The Practice of Presence
I’ve been circling this idea of presence for a while now—how quiet changes when it stops being recovery and becomes practice.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
When the noise fades, what’s left isn’t emptiness — it’s rhythm.
I explore how stillness shifts from recovery to daily practice, and how peace stops being escape and becomes attention that stays.
Read / listen: www.brittleviews.com/p/the-practi...
#AfterTheNoise #Presence #Stillness #BrittleViews
I explore how stillness shifts from recovery to daily practice, and how peace stops being escape and becomes attention that stays.
Read / listen: www.brittleviews.com/p/the-practi...
#AfterTheNoise #Presence #Stillness #BrittleViews
The attic holds its breath — dust, lavender, boxes labelled in Lily’s hand.
In Things We Keep, the past isn’t gone; it’s folded, waiting.
A story about memory, touch, and the quiet ways love keeps living on.
shorturl.at/6re3j
#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #Family #Legacy #LiteraryFiction
In Things We Keep, the past isn’t gone; it’s folded, waiting.
A story about memory, touch, and the quiet ways love keeps living on.
shorturl.at/6re3j
#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #Family #Legacy #LiteraryFiction
Chapter Twenty-Three – Holding On
Welcome back to Holding On.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The attic holds its breath — dust, lavender, boxes labelled in Lily’s hand.
In Things We Keep, the past isn’t gone; it’s folded, waiting.
A story about memory, touch, and the quiet ways love keeps living on.
shorturl.at/6re3j
#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #Family #Legacy #LiteraryFiction
In Things We Keep, the past isn’t gone; it’s folded, waiting.
A story about memory, touch, and the quiet ways love keeps living on.
shorturl.at/6re3j
#HoldingOn #QuietFiction #Family #Legacy #LiteraryFiction