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As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open...
xxxix. Signs and Wonders - Knife
Prehistoric flint knife. Knife: "hand-held cutting instrument consisting of a short blade and handle," late Old English cnif, probably...
xxxviii. Signs and Wonders - Fog
Fog: "thick, obscuring mist," 1540s, a back-formation from foggy or from a Scandinavian source akin to Danish fog"spray, shower,...
xxxvii. Signs and Wonders - Salt
Salt: Old English sealt Fish and Chips Out from his takeaway food shop, he looks beyond the greasy glass where gum trees swarm in the...
xxxvi. Signs and Wonders - Angels
Angels: 14thC fusion of Old English engel and Old French angele, both from Latin angelus, from Greek angelos ‘messenger, envoy, one that...
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Poetry is a language to which there is no defence. ©Jeff Guess 2017
xxxv. Signs and Wonders - Frogs
Frogs: Old English frogga, from Proto Germanic fruska-z, Old Norse froskr, Middle Dutch vorsc, German Frosch. Frog Cakes after Balfours’...
'A tense, musty, unignorable silence' 3
Philip Larkin - Church Going Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting,...
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'Somewhere there's a bluebird of happiness.' ©Jeff Guess 2017
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Canola fields, Murraylands, South Australia. ©Jeff Guess 2017
