Tag: alone
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Writing Love-Bite
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. Ernest Hemingway I can vouch for Ernest Hemingway’s statement. I know well what it’s like to be left…
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Peter’s Quote for The Day I Can Fly
Feature Photo by MAX LIBERTINE Upsplash.com If you are learning to fly, you will have an instructor, who tells you what to do. On your first solo flight, you will know what it’s like to actually fly an airplane. The seat next to you is empty and you are alone, with no one to help…
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Letting My Son Go
Wednesday morning 4.30 am, I lay awake knowing that today I will scatter my son’s ashes. I force myself out of bed; dawn is breaking and I go out into the garden, where I laid my son’s ashes some weeks ago. Still in my pajamas, I lift my son’s ashes, in a tiny box, from…