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It’s been six weeks now that I’m back on the Orkney Islands, and I feel the troubled waters of settling in all over again. I’ve had some wins but also a few losses that ripple quietly as if the peace I brought with me was only a tentative guest slipping away too soon. I tell myself…
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Admittedly, I have been fighting myself for the last few months, challenging my own consciousness; it’s what’s keeping me sane. ©️T.B.Stevens The Historical Record Remains Under Revision There is a peculiar injustice in being known by people who have never really taken the time to know you. They collect fragments of your behaviour, add a…
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Today I’m living in a painting under the autumn sun; a breeze flutters the leaves; a squirrel hides fallen chestnuts, startled by the shuffling turtle doves holding hands on a park bench. The leaves are getting ready to let go of the tree, the colours painting faintly, slowly, gently, from green to the warm and…
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A Timetraveler’s Side Quest. The Fool, “as she likes to call herself, when she is venturing into something new”, has returned. Not quite to where she left from, of course. Time has been busy while she was away. More than two and a half years, can apparently be both an age and barely a moment,…
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Reblogged as Gentleman Jack: what I wrote then still feels true, though time has polished the edges. A touch more aware now, but not less honest.
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#Notes From A Time Traveller To speak of disenchantment is to speak of dissolution in expectation. The Time Traveller has walked through many ages and discovered that The Fool did not discover that every guide was wise, but that wisdom and titles are not the same thing. Through every century, she sees the scenery change,…
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A Timetraveler’s Side Quest. The Curious Incident of the Heart That Isn’t Finished Yet. And this quest is not about romance, as it may not be standing at the station waiting for me, but the questions I find so hard to ask might be travelling on a nearby platform. So the fool who returns at…
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A Field Note from the Present Age. It has come to my attention, upon observing the customs of this era, that a most peculiar error has taken hold of their language.The word empathy is spoken as though it denotes virtue.It does not. Yet the people in this time seem convinced that to “possess empathy” is…
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