Holy the Firm
One. Two. Three. Four. All in one fell swoop. We no longer believed there wouldn’t be five. Or six, or all. Loss is not spread equally. I have learned that lesson well. It is a lumpy porridge and a thin gruel, and fate does not consider the suffering of a mother and say, Perhaps I’ll spare her this time. There were many times in our season of death
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the true essence of life, the darker, harder, painful edges that you know are there, hidden under the sunlit branches and sparkling waters of The Hay Wain. I closed the book.
Raynor Winn • The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Salt Path
the air is clear with anticipation,
But its real strength lies in the quiet tension of isolation
And living patiently, without atonement or regret,
In the eternity of the plain moments, the nest of care
—Until suddenly, all alone, the mind is lifted upward into
Light and air and the nothingness of the sky,
Held there in that vacant, circumstantial b... See more
But its real strength lies in the quiet tension of isolation
And living patiently, without atonement or regret,
In the eternity of the plain moments, the nest of care
—Until suddenly, all alone, the mind is lifted upward into
Light and air and the nothingness of the sky,
Held there in that vacant, circumstantial b... See more