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The Bright side

A Happy New Year to all – and no more moaning?https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/the-bright-side

Hope in the chaos

If we can’t hope, can’t celebrate, can’t reassert and rejoice in our common humanity we cease to be any use to ourselves or others. https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/hope-in-the-chaos

On Paradox and knowing

‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’ https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/on-paradox-and-knowing

To Care or not to Care

“Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.” https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/to-care-or-not-to-care

Gunpowder, treason and plot

Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist? https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/remember-remember

A person is a person through people

‘You can’t be human all by yourself’ – wisdom from Africa  –https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/a-person-is-a-person-through-people

Sleeping Beauty

And if you woke now after 100 years, what would you think? https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/asleep-for-100-years

Summer Beckons

The importance, and persistence, of community shines through in the events of late spring – stalls and competitions, bands and displays in village fetes https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/summer-beckons

Houses of straw

Tariffs meet fairy tales. The big bad wolf. Again. https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/houses-of-straw

Love letter to the planet

One of the things which has been exercising my mind this week has been the Valentine special we, at Damn Cheek, are running on Zoom. I’m involved in various ways and one of the spin offs, as always, is the motivation to write. One of my contributions is the poem below which I thought merited […]