Four feelings - and a funeral
handing out early poetry booklet prototypes
An essay in five parts, written during August 2025, an outcome of an adventure to leave my digital world for a few days, travel down to Brighton to meet up with a great friend and call in on people and places along the way.
Part 1: Anticipation - energising expectations - or no expectations at all - before an adventure begins. Read here
Part 2: Vulnerability - how the feeling of “not belonging here” can still make itself known after all these years.
Read here
Part 3: Loneliness - how a love of being alone evolved from a childhood trauma of unacknowledged abandonment at boarding school.
Read here
Part 4: Fear - how a real-life car crash brought back older experiences of fear.
Read here
Part 5: Grief - accepting the sadness of someone leaving us irrevocably, and thoughts on what to do when it’s my turn.
Read here
on the fertile void café Substack - with audio
