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Feb 22 2025

Walking through the Waste Land

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I recently read T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) for the first time (I should have read this many years ago, but life is short, the art is long). It was like getting punched in the gut – in a good way. I am not going to pretend to say anything of interest about a poem that falls well beyond my...

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Apr 01 2024

St Thecla’s Well

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It has been a very long time since I last wrote here. Many things have happened, not the least a pandemic. I have often thought of returning to this blog, but things got in the way. Over the last couple of months, however, my fingers have been itching more. So here I am. While I have not...

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