Author Archives: maureenshirley

Treasure is to be found in many forms, both tangible and intangible. I’ve always loved reading fairy tales and fantasy stories, so I have a strong mental image of treasure as being a mountainous heap of gold and jewels, with … Continue reading →

Are dreams just my brain on night shift, bored, rummaging through the archives for something to do?

The God I believe in sings with Magpies hums with bees enjoys the sun with blue-tongue lizards has four-footed angels and like the wind is everywhere.

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Second hand bookshops date from times past. And unfortunately, they drag all those dangerous times and ideas with them. So, if you enter one, you’ll have access to a stupefying blend of…

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I’ve set this out before. Here it is again. Reading is complex. Think Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. Reading’s not watching, and it’s not travel. It’s not something to do. It’s something you…

Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion

Ever since trying to build the Tower of Babel, people have been fascinated by high places, by being “up” where God was supposed to be. Moses climbed Mt Sinai to collect the Ten Commandments, and people have been building cathedrals … Continue reading →

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Owl Is my favourite. Who flieslike a nothing through the night,who-whoing. Is a featherduster in leafy corners ring-a-rosy-ingboles of mice. Twice you hear him call. Whois he looking for? You hearhim hoovering…

Poems are dancing in my head, But by the time I’ve got out Paper and pen They’re gone again, Shyly smiling, full of grace, Gone without trace. I go to bed, but cannot sleep And find instead, Poems dancing in … Continue reading →

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“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of…