Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon
Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon This year would have been Princess Diana’s sixtieth birthday. I met her briefly. This is a story of the...
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What is your calling?
What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I...
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The tao of the ‘Nightingale’
The nightingale has totemic significance for me. Not only am I drawn to the symbolism of this bird of love and loss, it is also the name of the...
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Finding solace and beauty through music (Part 1)
Throughout my book ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ you will discover how music has enabled me to find solace, beauty, love and hope...
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Writing my story – knowing myself
From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #2
“ If experience is the food of learning, then reflection is the digestive process………to benefit from experience, it is essential to make something...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #1
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver This meditation is taken from my memoir ‘The Grace of...
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Designing the book cover
Both the title ’The Grace of a Nightingale’ and the cover design have various connotations – nature, nursing, freedom, spirituality (the...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #10
Burren Light It began this way. A notion a slight suggestion a search for questions and a yearning just beyond my reach. A curiosity wavering...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #6
Ten to Seven You might have seen me walking In the company of friends On Dartmoor’s ancient trails. You might have seen us strike a pose For a...
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Nothing Compares
Let the silent tears flow And when your eyes clear Perhaps you will glimpse How your eternal child Has become the unseen angel Who parents your...
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