Baby’s Smile…..Silence….. Connections With Famous Folk….
by Bernie Bell - 08:15 on 21 February 2023
Baby’s Smile
I say ‘Hello’
And her face lights up
With a big smile.
Six months old
Just learning
Taking it all in
And smiling….
BB Feb 2023
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Silence…..
A podcast from ‘Emergence’ magazine…. https://emergencemagazine.org/
Listening to the beginning of the Podcast brought to mind ………. ‘Living for the City ‘ by Stevie Wonder – the section where the hope-full young man arrives in New York – and we hear the sounds of the city.
Then – a memory of sheltering among sand dunes with friends as a storm built and moved across the sky, then dropped on us – dark clouds rumbling – lightening crackling – nothing to do with ‘civilized’ life.
Then I just…listened…
Sanctuaries of Silence:
A Listening Journey
by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
“In this immersive listening journey from our archive, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton guides us into the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America. In a world drowned out by the din of modern life, Hempton offers a way to attune our ears to the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise and reconnect with the silence of the living world. “
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And a poem by me….
Into The Silence
Go into the Silence
Work with it
Don’t fight it.
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Take out the ear-phones
Turn off the Smartphones
Still the radio
And the TV’s blaring.
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Walk, Sit
Be.
BB May 2021
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Connections With Famous Folk….
One of my Great-nephews told me he was working on a dissertation about Queen Victoria, and I wrote the following to him….
“Have you come across that thing whereby you connect someone you know to a famous person in a short number of steps? Here’s Mike’s link to Queen Victoria…..
When Mike was a child his family shared a house with an old lady called Miss Thomas. Miss Thomas remembered being at Queen Victoria’s funeral when she was six years old, in 1901. Mike to Vic, in 2 steps!
I can then take it further, because Queen Vic is said to have remembered sitting on her uncle’s knee when she was small - that uncle became George the 4th. Mike to George the 4th in 3 steps – sort-of.
Queen Vic was a dreadful woman – her people were in poverty while she took no notice.
That’s an example of the Bernie Bell guide to historical figures!”
Miss Thomas also provides a link from Mike to Hitler! When she was a younger woman she was Personal Secretary to Lord Rothschild, who went to meet with Hitler in the 1930’s – Pre-war. As his Secretary, Miss Thomas accompanied him and…met Hitler. Mike to Hitler in two steps. Not sure what to make of that one…..
As time passes the links become more tenuous - but I suppose new ones are formed. Someone I know shook the hand of Robert Plant – so I shook his hand. Me to Robert Plant in two steps – sigh.
Friend Andrew met Charlie Three…. https://www.johnraesociety.com/limited-edition-mugs-in-memory-of-her-majesty/ - a variation on….
‘I danced with a man, who danced with a girl, who danced with the Prince of Wales’…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_danced_with_a_man,_who%27s_danced_with_a_girl,_who%27s_danced_with_the_Prince_of_Wales
‘I bought some pots, from a man who made pots, to show to the Prince of Wales.’
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/03/31/the-whale-the-well-and-the-fate-of-the-late-great-roundhouse/
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