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When ex-lawyers stall telling practising lawyers why they're doing things ALL wrong, you have to question their motives or at least I do.

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Too few people in this world get way too much attention -- it's as if they are modern-day gods, in which case I fear for all those to come.

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” ― Robert Frost

It was lovely to attend Holy Communion this morning (8am). I even got to meet someone who bought a house two doors down from our first house in South Brent; mind you, he'd bought his 30 years before ours.

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ― C.S. Lewis

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Out for my morning stroll with the pooches.

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Today's poetry reading is a classic: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I'm currently listening to Evensong on BBC Radio 3. It's one of my favourite parts of the week.

Two more days until I finish up with the private practice firm where I've been working for the last 12 months. I'll still be working in-house for a couple of days a week but I'm finally done with private practice. (AI-gen image of course.)

‘Screen Time’ Latest painting - acrylic on canvas (130 x 70cm)

The wonderful snowdrops at St Raphael’s chapel at Huccaby today. Built in 1868 as a combined chapel and schoolroom, it was a school during the week, the desks are now used as pews. The church shed is pictured here. #Dartmoor, #Devon. #snowdrops #photography

Just back from the morning walk; it's still very wet underfoot.

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Today’s poem is called "last seat at the end" and is from Charles Bukowski’s book, The Last Night of the Earth Poems.

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This morning’s stroll around the village.

Today’s poem is by Louise Gluck and is called “Matins”.

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Today’s poem is a short elegiac one by William Carlos Williams and is called, The Last Words of My English Grandmother

Today’s poetry reading: “Last Walk?” by Robert Lowell from his book, “Day by Day”.

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Today's poetry reading: I LIVE MY LIFE IN WIDENING CIRCLES by Rainer Maria Rilke (the Joanna Macy verion; not the Bly one which is a little different).

Why have so many people given up on religion, faith or a belief system?

Today's poetry reading: "Morning Poem" by Mary Oliver (the voice is still recovering)

JG Ballard kinda called it already, in 1973. This is the first *paragraph* of the introduction to CRASH.

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Today's poetry reading is a phenomenal Mary Oliver poem, "Am I Not Among The Early Risers".

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My heart cries out for all the animals, birds and insects who have had to endure the recent rain and strong winds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why are we so disconnected from the world?

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“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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How is my name an "invalid handle" on @bsky.app?

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“nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.” ― Charles Bukowski

I see a number of ex-lawyers becoming "life" coaches. Their shtick is still the same: there is something to fix; but all in the name of getting said client/patient back to work or to be more productive. No one appears to want to challenge the status quo and say the system is broke.

At least it was dry this morning

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When I look back on my so-called career, I wonder what it was all about. I never set out to be a lawyer. In hindsight, I should have done a theology degree.

Once you tune out and turn away from Trump and Farage, the world becomes a much kinder place.