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Kirstie, I am so grateful to Substack for bringing your words and your heart into my world. across two oceans and many tradewinds, I drink in your words and they fill me with breath, with ease, remind my heart: "stay here for a moment, there is enough space for you to be soft, there is enough time to be still."

thank you

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Thank you Toni for your beautiful comment. I too am so grateful for your words, and the way Substack connects us and makes room to share our creative work.

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Such a lot here KIrstie. Marvellous. What it takes to 'step out of numb' and to 'put down the stone.' All the ambivalences. But through them all, the connection. Thank you. Yes, I missed hearing you read, but on the other hand, snoring dogs, that made me laugh.

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Dear Carolyn, thank you for the word ‘ambivalence.’ Yes. And yes, connection like a gold-line through that fog. I put a recording up retrospectively, with no dog-snoring. ✨

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Definitely maybe. Good one. :)

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A lot does indeed happen in the pauses.

Once a week sounds like quite a bit to keep up! Be interesting to see ‘A Water Cycle’ when that is possible. Best wishes for your reading. :)

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Hi Steve, ha yes, a week hurtles by. I’ll give it a try for a month to see how it goes. Yes ‘A Water Cycle’ is interesting, in-line with your fabulous Fithie poems perhaps, trying to capture the sound and personality of a river in words

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Yes please to once a week, I love your words, and you!

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A voiceover of ‘Connect’ added just for you Liz Abbott. Thank you for your encouragement.

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Dear Liz, thank you so much! Encouragement definitely helps me to put the poems out there. Thank you.

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All we need now is your voice reading them, a podcast maybe? Xxx

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Ha! I tried to record a voiceover this afternoon, but the dogs kept snoring in the background. I’ll try again at some point soon.

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