While Bird

'While Bird' is an anagram of 'Whil Bride' - the internet pseudonym of William McBride.| A While Bird is winged, and seemingly weightless, but, instead of soaring to limitless heights, it will dance and flit about just at the level of the treetops, looking down, checking back, bearing a quiet, melancholy patience. | This is my favourite website, and it changes according to my tastes.| These days you are likely to find here: Proust quotes, AU and US politicking notes, Burt Bacharach Feel Goods and the odd piece of patented Proesy. Other interests include: the ways in which theinternetchangeslives, quotes about hard work, and, of course, Sex and the Dead. Get in touch: will.bride[at]gmail.com
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Posts tagged goodnights

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An Important Lesson

I said:: I wish that after the laundry was done it could just stay done for a couple of days.
She said:: No, it doesn't work like that.

Looking Down

If I am looking down, I am not looking up and around.

If I look up and around, other people seem to look down.

Perhaps if there was someone whose role it was to tell us all when to look down, and when to look up and around?

Hands

As children we would pinch and pull at the skin over Mum’s knuckles and laugh and laugh at the time it took to return. She might be on the phone, or in bed, or with a coffee, or just overseeing her offspring. And she had to comply by not moving her hands.

Still, I could see that she