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Memories
Leicester factories used to shut down for the first two weeks of July, and it seemed like everyone headed off to Skegness. We went for a...
Maxine Linnell
Jun 271 min read
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Heart
During these last few months of moving home, I've had to step back from the Soar Valley Dementia Project. I went back last week. A...
Maxine Linnell
Jun 121 min read
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Routes
Buddhism and meditation have been important in my life for decades, and this is time to bring them back right to the centre - less...
Maxine Linnell
May 212 min read
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Don't think about the bears
The book I didn't expect to write is growing. This blog is part of the growth, and I'm grateful to the people who support it, friends but...
Maxine Linnell
Apr 86 min read
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What is the story: Auguste and the Alzheimer story
It's a while since i posted anything, and in the end I decided to take off the last post. It just wasn't working. This one includes a...
Maxine Linnell
Mar 106 min read
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Fruits
This morning I woke up Laurie Anderson only with my name or maybe that might change each experience dot becomes my her her my a light...
Maxine Linnell
Jan 211 min read
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Move
The last three weeks haven't been a time to write, as I've moved house. Highs, lows, interminable boxes, important things buried...
Maxine Linnell
Jan 81 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Oct 7, 20243 min read
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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,...
Maxine Linnell
Sep 25, 20246 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Aug 24, 20242 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Jun 25, 20241 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Jun 1, 20241 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
May 31, 20242 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Apr 28, 20242 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Mar 30, 20245 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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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...
Maxine Linnell
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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Tarmac, ocean
Tragedy was never an intention but it came, cloaked, secretly shouted from rooftops, appeared in a heartbeat telling stories of prides...
Maxine Linnell
Jan 23, 20241 min read
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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....
Maxine Linnell
Dec 19, 20231 min read
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