I've been rather remiss about this blog. Again. Every month I religiously update my Walkingthefield's Books blog, but then forget that there is this one to work on. So sorry to anyone out there who has been looking forward to words of wisdom (or otherwise).
OK. So today is Father's Day as well as being Trinity Sunday. I've had two cards and a hug box of nine packets of different coffees, each from a separate country. And three other emails and messages. I am informed by one of my children that she forgot to give me my card and present last weekend when we were with them at South Weald Country Park. So I shall just have to make do with her electronic message and wait for something concrete to arrive later.
I've been writing several small groups of stories that might end up as a collection. One of them is about my experiences in a Day Treatment Centre in a mental hospital. It was quite hard to write and yet, now that I look it over, I'm quite pleased with the end result. The reader will certainly be able to envisage being there. Another group of stories is about working as a volunteer in a huge mental hospital (really a lunatic asylum) in the late 1960s.
And I've been writing some poetry. www.wordaid.org published an anthology of poetry to raise money for Children in Need. This year the aim is to raise money for Shelterbox which helps people in emergencies wherever they are in the world. My wife has approved the two poems I've written on the theme of survival - which does not include any reference to natural or other disasters. One is about a marriage and the other is about a church.
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