5/30/2023 0 Comments Mine tanya chris read onlineThe first bird surprised me while I was resting my eyes – a jackdaw level with my driver’s seat window. An instinct that I might, in my improvised hermitage, mend my concentration and courage both. Provisioned for endurance: flask and fingerless gloves, a monkish supply of oatcakes and apples. I did as she said, and sat for hours each week in my wind-rocked car, bundled in jumpers and blankets. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound…Go up into the gaps.” A book a day sometimes, all by those of strange or insistent imaginations. To drive in school hours to the highest, wildest point on my part of the Sussex Downs – Firle Beacon – and sit tight. The sort that had me hold my throat where sound should come, but would not. A time of complicated grief: the kind that can’t be shared.
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