Body clocks, always something new, just right
1. My phone battery dies overnight but our – and the animals’ – body clocks wake us right on time. 2. The bracken, brambles and balsam have died away to reveal new paths through the woods and fields. We walk them together, her tail spinning, my heels sinking into the leaf mulch. 3. I love [...]
Three Beautiful Things before breakfast
(Well, actually, during the night/before my alarm went off to start the day, but that “before breakfast” has got a better ring to it.) 1. When it is dark: the world is as silent and still as I’ve ever heard it her. No wind in the trees, no traffic noise, no birds or animals making [...]
