Running the ripples from shore to shore

'The Solitary Life of Cranes' is a lovely, strange little programme; the men who operate those towering cranes one sees dotted about explaining their experiences and perspective, over beautiful footage of London from a vantage point most of us will never share - high enough to be silent and detached, but low enough to recognise individual people. They come across quite like Wim ...

[Art] White-Nosed Coati as Totem

... its tail upright in a distinct position. The white-nosed coati is an excellent terrestrial hunter, but is also a competent swimmer and climber, and tend to sleep in trees. Males are solitary by nature, females travel in packs with offspring. They are adaptable to human presence, very intelligent, and have been easily domesticated. As a totem animal Looking after others, being generous with ...

one-thousand and one nights.

... have been perfectly obvious already. *** It was strange, suddenly having a new person in his quiet, solitary life, and Minho was more than a little disturbed at just how soon he adapted to the genie's...this weird, confusing, and sometimes obnoxiously cheerful genie who had invaded his life—one wish, and Onew would be gone for good. Minho fumbled his ...

I hope you don't forget ...

... hadn't ever really had them herself, but it seemed Tess' father and grandmother were the anchors in her life and at least one of them was gone now. At least there was a surname she could research into, ... and nephew. She'd been giving Percy his space, knowing that he tended to deal with grief in a solitary manner, but she was his sister, and only so much time would be afforded. "I'll tell Jack you ...

Fic: Water Music (12/17)

... had what, a hundred different cultures going on at the same time?” “But none of them dictating life for everyone else, not necessarily,” said the Doctor. “Huftzar – or Tyminia, haven’t figured that out...said the young man, and Alice laid the bloom gently in the water. It bobbed on the water, solitary, for a moment, and Alice pushed it along to join the others. “Alice,” called the Doctor from...

all of my days

...t think i have ever really been afraid to die, but now i may not be afraid of living again. my life is pretty good. i do what i want, when i want, and how i want. the only draw back to such a fly by lifestyle is sometimes you have to do it alone. is that the cost of freedom? solitary? i gladly pay, because you story with the white picket fence...kid...wife...just isn't for me. i rather ...

Fic: Christmas Past for kittehkat

... Christmas five times, at five stages in his life. Author's notes: This was different for me - ...cause and effect , action and consequence . Later in life, he will always weigh his options and take time... something terribly frightening. It had evolved beyond the solitary act it was supposed to be and had ... himself. He thinks that he can divide his life into before the first war and after the ...

Heisenberg's Bastard, part I, or, The whole flock of ships*--

...and use this deception as justification for making her life and her child's life a living hell thereafter while in the process making his own no less... and brushes, or to be kept in solitary confinement at the whim of adults who ..., because that's how we experienced real life in our house. --You think it's ... useless wretch you were who was ruining life for everybody else and why can't you...

So, this story I'm writing.

... Lily’s struggle to put her life back together. Lily will drag Jill ...the recycling bin, she ponders how life has changed for the two of...a too-constant companion throughout her life, and she refuses to allow them... awakening her sister when the solitary bottle of pills lying on its... attempting to wake her, willing life and energy back into her ... seat of the ambulance. Her life has narrowed to the sirens ...

...to see me succeed. I wanted him to see me okay, with a job and an income and a life. And now all I can do is think about the million things that I'm going to someday do ...remember thinking how stupid it was that manufactures make grandparents cards or grandmother cards, but none for a single, solitary grandfather. And now I'll never have that moment of scoffing again and I have this stupid card and ...