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Goddess Wisdom – 100 words

September 6, 2024 By Ellen

When the solar wind howls it sets the magnetosphere spinning and Aurora takes flight. She stirs technicolour enchantments so ancient and mysterious, they spit in the eye of scientists with their coronal holes and ionisation. I yearn for the goddess’s wise blessing, so I go outside. My big sky is choppy with the distant M6 […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, aurora, aurora borealis, Cumbria, goddess

Medalling in kindness

August 4, 2024 By Ellen

I could forgive the verbifying of ‘medal’ if the clamber up the podium was to receive a prize for kindness. A triathlon for big-hearted, not the fainthearted – training is tough. Compassion not rescuing, empathy not pity, and thoughtfulness not judgement. Bootcamps to be better – leave your ego at the door. Vulnerability for victory, […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, Olympic games

seaside conversation – 100 words

February 10, 2024 By Ellen

seaside conversation   what is destiny? asked a seagull as I unwrap my chips good question, I say, steam burps from my parcel, a potato inferno of salt and grease it’s the future, the end of the road X marks the spot your inevitability, given where you start teeth tear and liberate the sauce – […]

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The love of laundry – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

The love of laundry   Your clothes are puddled, shorts, pants, socks nested. Pocket with a lolly stick broken in three place and two seashells, not from the same creature. It smells of your outdoors body. The evidence of slide tackles will need that pink stuff, so I rub it in with my finger. Later […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, childhood, laundry, life, parenting, prose poetry

A visit from my imaginary lover – 100 words

January 21, 2024 By Ellen

A visit from my imaginary lover They came to my house and I surprised myself by opening the door for them. They said ‘I see you’, and I said ‘I doubt it, your kind never do. And don’t think I’ll tidy up before we have tea’. We had tea sitting on hard seats because I […]

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