Waking, I found myself floating, something melodic running through my head, my eyes remained closed. I could hear breathing, slow and low, hypnotically peaceful. I smile automatically, it’s the effect you have on me every time, but I only remembered to breathe again after hearing you sigh in your sleep. The press of your soft, naked body against mine does not bring me down to earth. Lying over my right side, straddling my...

"Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross" the old nursery rhyme goes, but although there are many fine ladies, I'm sure, few if any ride any kind of horse through the streets of this ancient town. If you are lucky you could see me going about my daily business, or I could be elsewhere. Where we are is not always where we want to be, or where official reports would have us. I have a physical address, letters and packages can re...

After a disappointing summer, September began as though any hope of some sun had been cancelled for the year. The first week had squally showers, short but extremely sharp; the second added gales to the mix, it all felt very autumnal. It was during this second week that I had a 9am appointment in Newmarket. The journey should have taken about two hours, especially at that time of day, but for some unfathomable reason the...

I have both observed, and participated in The Japanese Tea Ceremony. The exquisite way each article was handled, and the reverence with which this ritual was performed were both striking and profoundly calming. With origins over a thousand years ago it developed and gained a meaning of its own, separate from its inclusion in a formal or celebratory meal. In particular becoming the focus of Wabi-Sabi, the confluence of the...

Is this how it's supposed to be? I never knew Nor felt as close to anyone, never had presumed. Every waking moment filled with thoughts of you, All my dreaming has me enthralled, all subsumed. There is a shimmering love light running through These feelings that have me so consumed.These two hearts keep beating at a single pace, Our lips still, and forever, needing the same kiss, Open arms keep reaching for the same embrac...