"Suppose a day, ordinary, normal. Suppose a Saturday in April. Feel a butterfly land, for the very first time, upon your waiting hand, quietly, with such fragile, aching grace. Suppose a moment when we stood outside of time. When something came and held us firmly in place. Suppose a day when there was time for standing still. Suppose a time when we could choose to start again. Suppose a silken, solitary season, full of light & time & longing, hung like feathers, in a planet-bright sky."
@Greenseer To paraphrase something I posted yesterday: if we're going to sacrifice billionaires to Poseidon, can we do it a bit more often than once a year?
"The police took all the devices inside my home, a protest sign that had 'Palestine' written in Arabic, any notebook with 'foreign writing' and my powder eyeliner to test it in the lab because they thought it was gun powder."
"There's an optical illusion that's easy to fall for, even if you know the trick: the more distant you are from other people, the more invulnerable they appear. Maybe it's our secret vulnerability; what draws us together. It gives each of us a primal need that only a friend can satisfy - someone you trust enough to be yourself with, who can help prop you up if needed, or remind you that you're fine the way you are. And even if you're not, that's ok, too."
@CloudyMrs We'll be doing a fair amount of hiking while we're in Yorkshire but outdoors is fine. We both love a castle and standing stones, all things of that type really. And definitely *not* camping or climbing stuff ๐
@CloudyMrs Yes, definitely! Suggestions welcome. I was briefly in the NE last summer on my way back to Edinburgh from Orkney but didn't get much chance to see anything.
@CloudyMrs Aye, I've been to Skye and Mull. We're concentrating on the east side this time because we're coming up from York. There's so much of Scotland (and Ireland and Wales) to see.
I invite you to consider the level of hysteria with which this would be reported in the western media if it were an Israeli synagogue. Spoiler alert - it's getting no coverage, at least in the Guardian. The BBC isn't even running a blog that I can find.
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