who will you walk with
and what will you chat about
next time you paddle?

Just a quick question to the ether – because by one means or another, day in, day out, I hear or read the appeal: ‘why aren’t the British people more outraged?’ – and I have no clue as to an answer, whatever the subject the appeal is being made for or on behalf of.

But I’m wondering: how useful – on the 13th August, under sunshine and blue sky, around 24 degrees – how useful to our lives would having more ‘outraged’ British people really be? Isn’t there something better we could bring to the public arena than rage?

Absolutely genuine question: isn’t there?

Photo at Pexels

morning mist gives way
to clarity on a bright
light sunshiny day

what kind of freedom
would be known if life was framed
without fixed images?

Late morning update: Serendipity? I can’t pull myself away from Brianna Wiest’s exquisite ‘Salt Water’ which my postie cheerfully delivered this morning (yes, definitely treat yourself at your usual bookstore) – in which she asks

Imagine how things would feel
If you didn’t know how they looked

I think I may have
misheard you just now my friend –
did you say ‘I’m bored’?

nose and mouth and cheeks
and chin are masked so we look
to eyes now for smiles