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Maxine Linnell
Oct 73 min read
She’d lost herself, she said
This is not a happy read, and if you feel it's not for you, perhaps it's best not to read it. I'll find an image soon. Some people know...
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Maxine Linnell
Sep 256 min read
Open the Doors
This is an edited transcript of a talk for Open the Doors on 24th September. Open the Doors is based in Australia, ' an innovative,...
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Maxine Linnell
Aug 242 min read
not all who wander...
sometimes poems are mysteries like this one although there's something ordinary in here maybe less inhibited it's long and might be short...
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Maxine Linnell
Jul 53 min read
Special
Not my image, but I stayed in the Drakensberg mountains while I was on a four-week Buddhist solitary retreat in South Africa. The cabin I...
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Maxine Linnell
Jun 251 min read
through - a poem
At last, a new poem. I'm trying to get back to what's important for me - not that the petition and campaigning aren't important, but the...
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Maxine Linnell
Jun 11 min read
A DEEP group
As part of Alzheimer's action week, Ben Jackson from Radio Leicester visited our small Deep group in Quorn. You can find the two five...
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Maxine Linnell
May 312 min read
It's in our hands
Thanks to Julie for this image - right now it's easy to feel alienated from what's going on in the world. Such a reminder not to hide or...
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Maxine Linnell
Apr 282 min read
Notes from today
Recent poems might scorch this page if I shared them! This is my Easter effort, eggs dyed with red cabbage. Like so many things, they're...
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Maxine Linnell
Mar 305 min read
The Long Goodbye - or not
I’ve been neglecting this blog the last week or so. I’d like to be able to say that’s for positive reasons. But I can’t. This week has...
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Maxine Linnell
Mar 22 min read
The only time
I didn't know Wendy personally, so this poem's theme is how her life and decisions have affected me, through her writing and through her...
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Maxine Linnell
Feb 221 min read
Wendy Mitchell, an inspiration
Wendy Mitchell, the best-selling author of 'Somebody I used to know', 'What I wish I'd known about dementia', and 'One last thing', has...
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Maxine Linnell
Jan 231 min read
Tarmac, ocean
Tragedy was never an intention but it came, cloaked, secretly shouted from rooftops, appeared in a heartbeat telling stories of prides...
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Maxine Linnell
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Hartland
Hartland Quay is beyond photography. When I lived nearby, I swam twice a day in warmer times. Writing about one thing evokes much more....
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Maxine Linnell
Dec 5, 20233 min read
And there's more to come
This has been the place where I’ve shared so much about the process I’ve been in, discovering dementia in my life. The process has been...
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Maxine Linnell
Oct 29, 20236 min read
Are we understanding?
Poetry has been the centre of this blog so far. I find myself thinking more and more about our society’s attitudes and responses to...
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Maxine Linnell
Sep 27, 20231 min read
Pasta, herbs, spices, rice, three kinds of flour, nuts, sultanas, oats, seeds. And the rest.
Recently I've been talking to so many people, trying to change how dementia is seen, treated, experienced. It feels urgent. This is for...
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Maxine Linnell
Sep 1, 20232 min read
Days
There's a strong sense of gratitude right now. A year after the diagnosis I'm living in a way I could never have imagined then, around...
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Maxine Linnell
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Another way
Pippi Longstocking is a guide. She sits in the porch, welcoming and wise at the threshold. Sometimes it feels like there's no choice....
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Maxine Linnell
Jul 7, 20233 min read
Talk
Recently I was invited to write for a feature with this title. I found the title very difficult, and the poem starts with anger, but it...
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Maxine Linnell
Jun 12, 20233 min read
I get stuck
I've been writing about the warrior. Here I'm writing about the hurt. Maybe they're not so far apart. I get stuck. I know I’m stuck when...
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