Category Archives: Humanity

A Matter Of Philosophy

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I want to know what everything is, and nothing is; the beauty of a note and the silence which surrounds it. I like to know and understand myself, and those whom I meet, or nearly meet. I am conscious that … Continue reading →

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Mr Cummings

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Mr Cummings, who taught me English at school was considered an “Odd Man.” You could see even then, and I was about eleven when he taught me, that most of his conversations were with himself, which he involved you in … Continue reading →

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Cometh the Hour and Gone The Hour

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I remember those heady days when we first entered college, dropped our bags and said goodbye to our parents. Those conversations filled with awkward love and soon-forgotten advice. I remember meeting my new roommates, and sharing stories and then drinks … Continue reading →

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A First Connection

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

When I met her she felt her beauty was a recollection: her power to attract, she feared, long since gone and she was defenceless against the scrutiny of those less charitable than herself. She was a drunk in a bar at some … Continue reading →

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Retrospective Love

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The mourners stood around him eating cakes and sandwiches not made by him. Some catering company he employed to do the work, did the work while he stood near a corner of the room, watching his guests share memories of … Continue reading →

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That Moment !

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I’m an “In between engagements” kind of guy who has taken many jobs to keep the world from taking too much interest in his lack of circumstance. I am still seeking my calling, my destiny, the true expression of myself … Continue reading →

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That Last Chance Class

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You know that practised smile, the air-hostess smile so beloved in the world of the antiseptic greeting? Miss Laura had it and could look on you and then move away before you could ask if her manner was sincere, or … Continue reading →

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Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Perhaps he was a footnote in history, there was no one left to ask, this veteran of a near forgotten war, now brought to life through films and sometimes books, but lived by him back when his legs still moved, … Continue reading →

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A View Of Improvement

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Those friendships we enjoyed so casually in a life not overburdened with demands, allowed us room to celebrate with ease, a freedom we now find embalmed in photographs. There I am, grinning with a new caught fish, the harbour as … Continue reading →

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Memories

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Was that her, it seemed so long ago? Another life lived in another age. A young girl dressed in white, beside the man she’d known since her birth. The son of her dad’s best friend, who played with her in … Continue reading →

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