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‘Have you ever even bothered to think about men for a change? I’d like you to understand men better’ Theres a moment at the end of one of my favourite books Paulo Coelho’s ‘Eleven Minutes’ where the main character, ‘the coming of age learning love though prostitution’ Maria is confronted by a man Ralf (The…
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Thats the noise ive kind of made in the last few weeks as I’ve headed towards my 48th Birthday, which is today. A kind of deep, in the breath humming noise. A kind of wistful, soulful, pleasantly grateful feeling, of being 48. Definitely not relief of making it through another year thing, oh no, that…
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The great remembering, thats what it is. I’ts not a strategy, an outcome or a journey. Becoming Angel is a great remembering. A remembering of who you are before you were who you were. A great remembering of the original divie blueprint, that existed before silence had a name. A great remembering of the eternal…
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I beganTo LoveMe. Because. A Gap Nudged. Prized. Open. Between. And so. There is. An I. And a Me. One……and the other A Gap in which. A pause is. A Gap in which There is ….is. A Space containing, radiating. Distance. Seperation. Is. There . Is. A. Gap. A Gap. There. Is. and is I.…
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Therapy and Walks. Thats basically what I was doing for about 2 months, late 2023. And writing at weekends, using coloured pens and writing out the tiny starting shoots of a story, in the safe space of the bookstore coffee shop. Writing a book in a place of books and words, and in the place…
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Over on Substack, I have been writing a series on how I have learned to love myself over the last 6-7 years, please do subscribe to me there, as it is where I do most of my writing. The most recent one, part 7, I published is about how I noticed that a separation was…
James Ballantyne 