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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Maxine Linnell
- May 4, 2023
- 1 min
fish strawberry wasp
This lovely pot was made by Roderick Hill in response to fish strawberry wasp. And the poem was written many years ago, about Joy Allen....
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Maxine Linnell
- Mar 31, 2023
- 1 min
I promised
The Old Courtesan (La Belle qui fut heaulmière) Auguste Rodin. I promised I would never choose flat shoes or elastic-waisted trousers or...
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Maxine Linnell
- Mar 17, 2023
- 1 min
'I am God in nature; I am the weed by the wall.'
If I could stop the world turning, it would stop now, and now, and now, and now, for ever. Now squats unsettled on the growing pile of...
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Maxine Linnell
- Mar 2, 2023
- 1 min
Forward with dementia
I've been volunteering for some research work, doing questionnaires and interviews, and on Monday I talked to Claudio Di Lorito, at...
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Maxine Linnell
- Feb 24, 2023
- 1 min
Song
It's not as if there's been nothing going on, and it's not as if there's been nothing to say, but it's been a while since I last posted...
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Maxine Linnell
- Jan 28, 2023
- 1 min
Why be quiet? An understory conversation
Charlotte Gann and I have been talking/writing about this writing and project, and the result is published here. Thanks to Charlotte for...
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Maxine Linnell
- Jan 16, 2023
- 2 min
What if? (Part one)
Imagine this. There’s something wrong, but it’s not clear what that is. You miss things, lose things, forget. You used to be organised,...
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Maxine Linnell
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
New day
A new year - a new day is enough to be going on with. Another stepping stone in this change-river, another noticing in another moment....
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Maxine Linnell
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Half way
This is the picture of the Balfron Tower in London, by Simon Terrill, which is mentioned in the poem. My son Benn was Project Manager on...
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Maxine Linnell
- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
Kate
Kate was such a joy. We went to the Hay Festival, to Bruges, to Paris, to Cornwall, to poetry festivals and exhibitions, Akram Khan and...
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Maxine Linnell
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
Losts
Mind full of past. Dust collections in corners. Last year’s spider webs. Last century’s bus tickets. Trip over fabric piles that might...
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Maxine Linnell
- Nov 3, 2022
- 1 min
Pink
The second image is from a quilt I admired, and the first is something that came from it.
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Maxine Linnell
- Oct 28, 2022
- 1 min
The jacket
This is a section of a Japanese-style jacket I'm making. Yesterday I completed this one. Most of the sections will be worked on in some...
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Maxine Linnell
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
The day I drowned the remote
In the kitchen, in the sink, in the bowl, in the water, the tv remote was drowning. There was nobody to blame, nothing to say how it got...
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