The greatest mistake you or I will ever make is… Actually, first I’ll tell you a story. There was, in a village by the sea an old man who built a boat. Like his…
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The Water Lane was a rough, unpredictable path of mud and loose stones that ran alongside a stream. Thick vegetation lined each side, and tall trees blotted out most of the sun. It was…
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Last summer I grew vegetables for the first time. As I prevailed energetically upon a small area of grass behind our flat, digging long, spade-depth trenches to scrape the grass and weeds into, followed…
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Yesterday was sunny, so I cycled home from work by the sea, past piles of pink warm granite tumbling into the blue. Children laughed with dinghies in the shallows, while their parents stretched out on…
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I was shown to a stool to the left of the bed, and told not to move. I sat on my sweating hands, arms locked straight and my shoulders high, shifting from side to…