Sometimes when you've been travelling around the place, meeting new people and seeing exciting places, you should get tired. IF YOU ASK ME, tiredness comes when you are simply a spectator in an unfamiliar place. People float my boat and on my recent trip, people made my tiredness, mostly, vanish.
When was the last time tragedy stared you in the face? Must history repeat itself?
Who’d have thought I’d witness a brother’s love overcoming fear, and staying strong in dangerous proximity to a top predator?
In the autumn/winter, a few years back, I walked an old droving road every day in all weathers. The vegetation vanished and as the nights drew in, the path ever more like slurry … and I could see more and more of the old walls. And then, in one particular place, the wall had a sizeable hole … (more…)
Little people rush around vibrant packages of energy and honest emotion