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 5
- 3 min
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 25
- 1 min
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 1
- 1 min
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 31
- 2 min
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 28
- 2 min
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 30
- 5 min
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 2
- 2 min
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 22
- 1 min
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 23
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 6 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
How to talk to me
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, 2023
- 3 min
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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Maxine Linnell
- May 27, 2023
- 2 min
Dementia warrior versus Paris via Eurostar
People have asked about Paris, hoping for a delighted answer. I hoped to be able to give one too, but the trip wasn't quite like that....
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Maxine Linnell
- May 18, 2023
- 4 min
Dementia Alliance International blog
I've just been to Paris for a week - my first attempt at using support to travel. I'll maybe write more about it when I've recovered!...
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