New life; amazement fills the room, wonder read on all the faces, deep thankfulness irradiates the place The son who was lost was...

The smell of crispy apples baking in the oven The sound of a boy practising his violin scales The sight of Canadian geese in a v in the...

Lights all around Brightening up the streets Whether cars, lamp stands, the tube or winter wonderland in Hyde Park Lights all around...

To my dear friends who journey with anxiety – November 2017 Unsettled, I feel. Un-grounded. Unsure, Life: a whirlwind. Change, change, so...

Knitted in a womb with intricacies beyond reason Loved and known before seeing the light of day Adopted by the one who created and is the...

Alors que les jours découlent, Et que l’obscurité se fait de plus en plus oppressante, Alors que la douceur de l’été indien Semble de...

All the prayers and all the false hopes All the expectations and all the answers All the loving darts and all the footnotes propelled...

A jar with a familiar chequered lid has sat on the desk to become a bid How long will it remain untouched? How long will it remain...

Leaving the debating chambers through the right-hand side of the door they voted against the entrenched and prolonged inequalities...

As I sat in the coral armchair, two or possibly three tissues in my right hand, These three words resonated in my head: fear of loss,...

Confronted for my lack of confrontation Not only was I faced with the very action avoided But also with the blatant artistry of my...

Marilynne m’a dit que d’espérer n’est qu’au fond rien d’autre que de projeter son amour en avant Bernard m’a enseigné que d’aimer n’est...

Silence followed, as people closed their eyes the sound of a military trumpet behind their ears solemnity spread rapidly among their...

Slippery, nothing concrete; one’s own reality has embraced a state of limbo unwillingly the ice cream in front of you having come to...

Liminal places, light and darkness in our surrounding When speaking with honesty leads us to great calamity Our Father, exalted One, may...

Sitting in a classroom by a window wide open My eyes could but look out into the horizon Lake Geneva, boasting about its backdrop: the...

When the yellow leaves turn brown When the dry soil cries for rain When the skin of your summer feet crackles When the flames in the oven...

En novembre, les tomates, les courgettes, les poivrons, bref, ces légumes charismatiques de l’été, c’est bien fini ! Ce matin, mon mari...

How to translate the perfection of an instant, when words disenchant the very reality? Beauty in its rawest nature filling people’s minds...

A father figure around a dining table, wanting to share a life’s lesson with an eighteen- year-old: talents, you see, we’ve all received,...