Tag Archives: time

The Queue For Eternal Awareness

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“What was your life like?” I said to the man one ahead of me in the queue of judgement . “I was like a man possessed,” he said as we waited . “How do you mean” said Mr Safe, namely me,  … Continue reading →

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Drama at the Womberlater

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

At eight and three quarter months the baby was developing normally, and now the light above the machine was changing to green, which meant she could insert the chip of personality traits and abilities she wished her child to enjoy. Gone, … Continue reading →

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In Syria

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Her face was like a river bed dried and cracked by unrelenting heat. Sitting there, beside the church on streets bleached white by sunlight, she made no statement, but still I felt I knew her. This other soul. This old … Continue reading →

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Some Years After I Died

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I sat in the car with my wife and travelled up to the cemetery where I’d been buried not long before. She didn’t know I was there, of course,. I was now the  silent passenger, the observer, the helpless carer whose love for her continued … Continue reading →

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Plastic Penguin with a Propeller on it’s Nose

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

A Blogging contact, ( aawa ) recently wrote a post about a conversation she had with her freezer. I don’t speak German, but I think the general drift was the freezer was warning her not to leave the door open too long. … Continue reading →

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Where the light comes From

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The other evening I was out with friends, trying to behave normally and observing the antics  of some of the folk near us. A large range  of personalities was on display. I watched a young child rush up to its mother … Continue reading →

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Not Quite the Big Bang Theory

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I had a group of friends at University with whom I shared the first steps away from home,  discovered earnest conversation, bad cookery and  odd low-level eccentricities, the latest novels and beer. This mutual curiosity bound us to each other and we shared … Continue reading →

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Face On A Boat

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Kicked out of bed,  dad’s voice gruff but warm, he spoke in terms of needs,  his eyes of love .”Duty, chores and routine: all came first. Emotions were somehow  managed in between.”  Saying that he was a loving dad. In the manner … Continue reading →

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First Steps

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Some time before I was born, about five hundred thousand years ago, I suppose we all lived in tiny widely spaced communities as separated from each other as it was possible to  be: living in caves , getting by on a … Continue reading →

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Families Valued

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

We make or pick our friends  through life’s journey, quickly at first and then more warily as experience takes the first blush off our innocence. Moving around we lose a few and make some more to compensate but are always in … Continue reading →

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