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one last look
inside candy | July 23rd 2008 by Candy Tothill
Some nights, before the sun dissolves your shapeless fear of loneliness, you linger loosely on the people that used to pass your lips so easily. Their faces are still pressed to yours in scrapbooks, pressed to yours with those promising smiles and t read more
35 and the return to innocence
inside candy | March 23rd 2008 by Candy Tothill
"Don’t be afraid to be weak, don’t be too proud to be strong, just look into your heart my friend, that will be the return to yourself… the return to innocence" - Enigma, Return to Innocence I’m told that by this time read more
[wfdv] can a word or touch or dream
inside candy | March 11th 2008 by Candy Tothill
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piece of a morning
inside candy | March 8th 2008 by Candy Tothill
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balls and two sure things
inside candy | February 23rd 2008 by Candy Tothill
The only one sure thing is change. Until a few months ago, I believed that. Now I believe that there are two sure things: change; and William. The latter is as constant and dependable as it is miraculous and exhilarating. I’ve spen read more
the blog must go on
inside candy | February 20th 2008 by Candy Tothill
Blogging is a pressing of the self into the clay of the human experience. The why of it had eluded me until I realised that there’s so much more to the act than the straightforward desire to read and be read; in essence it is the need to know a read more
with one flame
inside candy | February 14th 2008 by Candy Tothill
We open veins and pour ourselves into each other. They lurk, reading through windows, hoping to steal a hint of our majesty. They think they’re uninvited. But hearts of blue beat blood against these pages that we touch with love. And they i read more
over-editing kills impact
inside candy | February 7th 2008 by Candy Tothill
Sometimes I edit myself so much that the final article loses its original impact. Last month I produced a poem called Midnight to the Stars. Although it’s a reasonable effort, this afternoon I happened to find the first draft, which is read more
the quickening
inside candy | February 2nd 2008 by Candy Tothill
"Backward, turn backward, O’ time, in your flight." - Elizabeth (Akers) Allen, 1832–1911 January is over. It disappeared in a blink. I wonder whether it is by coincidence that the first day of the month of the heart (February in read more
god is in the rain
inside candy | January 29th 2008 by Candy Tothill
One of my favourite phrases is God is in the rain. Strange then, that I associate rain with sadness… perhaps I have been misinterpreting the rain. Now it seems more like happy tears falling out of a laughing heaven. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: read more
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