Trad Autumn colours from 3 Oct walk as on the train today with unseasonal ones! #distancedrift

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community we got to be part of, so that when they were old enough to walk alone without me, they knew the safe places, the people who worked in them that they could call on in need, and how to negotiate any possible challenges. Literally becoming Street Wise.

... follow, and close-read them. Inside their essays are gems like this by Helen Mort, writing on Melissa Febos and also on Annie Dillard (whose weasel writing I have spent many hours with, dredging for the ways she manages to engage me that viscerally.) 🙏

"And I admire writers who are unafraid to show their own confusions, how their impressions and feelings often unsettle or undercut their deeply held beliefs."
I've decided that what you must do if you can't afford a Masters in Creative Writing, is to seek out the 'teachers',...

Bees pulling their moves on oh-so-fragrant (you'll have to take my word for it) late roses

Dancing lillies in Edinburgh hot sun (honest). It was the wiggling stamens that got me!

Ditto!

Love that

Swirls of dessicated fabric, interlocking wire spirals and intricate thread sworls in pink detritus, Granton beach, Edinburgh #distancedrift

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