The Sometimes Newsletter
I wonder whether we will know what to do when October arrives, if our desires will turn to paper and fall with the rest of the leaves at our feet. I don’t remember who, but I was talking to somebody at breakfast about the hardness of water, the softness of it, the way it can tak…
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July didn’t announce itself but instead crept up quietly at the end of a sun-filled string of days, and perhaps I’m simply imagining that the light is …
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June, a list: Everyone talks about how slow plants are to grow and adapt compared to people; I’m not sure that’s always true, the Pseudopanax lessonii …
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I’m not really sure where to begin, and I know commas aren’t strictly supposed to act as pauses, but I use them like that anyway. It feels as though as…
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May, a list: The delight felt by children under the age of four is even more noticeable now, and I wonder how to feel that way about things again Every…
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It takes a while to leave the house, to feel ready to leave, but I'm always glad when I do. My hands carry two thick, cream-coloured envelopes and a sm…
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It has been raining less than usual and so we have needed to water some of the yet-to-be-planted plants, which is carried out with a selection of whate…
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You work on Saturdays and Sundays, so Thursday and Friday have become the weekend, which has already succeeded in confusing things. On this un-weekend …
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