Healing
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Your Soul is never not Beautiful.
Your Soul is never not beautifulExcept in the carcass thoughts of a fractured mindThat cant bear to be seenFrom the outside, or from within.For what it is. Your soul is never not beautifulFor she dances in puddles in red welly… Continue reading
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Arrival…(How do you know)
How do you know……. You’ve Arrived. Trains pull in to stations predicted by one arrivals board. 20 departures ones. Arrival almost incidental. People get off, but people leaving more important. Going somewhere else. Need to know where they are going.… Continue reading
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Take what you Need (18/06/26)
I wrote these 25 random sentences today. As heart and soul dumps on Substack, some of which started in my journal today. Take what you need. Let me know what resonated for you in the comments, and if you like… Continue reading
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Arousal of Life
It wasn’t just the dolphins.However wonder lusting we were about them. It wasn’t just the puffins. However much they performed their adorable cuteness. It was the space between. From Dolphins just of the harbourTo the island. There was time. Time… Continue reading
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The Last Death (is never the final one, nor the first)
Right now my head is spinning. Right now my head is terrorised. Right now it’s pounding and pounding. High alert signals protrude into every other moment. Head raging. Head spinning. Pulsing into high alert. I want it to stop. I… Continue reading
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Nobody with No-body.
Loving myself, meant loving my body. All of it. For 40 years I felt one form of body shame or another. My innocent nakedness was shamed early by my mother. Her favourite story to tell on every occasion, even to… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 