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Laura Potts

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9 days

Folks, I have abandoned this book. My life can be spent in more pleasurable ways, including spooning out my eyes. As a final note, I'd be intrigued to know what Anthony Burgess was reading when he said it was the greatest novel of the century. I guess he didn't read much.

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22 days

I am now at the stage of reading Ulysses, 408 pages in, when I have absolutely no idea what is going on at all.

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22 days

I am now at the stage of reading Ulysses, 408 pages in, when I have absolutely no idea what is going on at all.

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8 days

@furious_mum Have you ever read Les Miserables? I seem to remember quite a few chapters about the Paris sewage system written in intimate detail.

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8 days

@KatyEvansBush It wasn't intended literally! I'm well aware that he did. Perhaps my misjudged attempt at humour.

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9 days

@AnnieWithBooks Hi Annie. I have The Sea, The Sea on my bookshelf waiting to be read.

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Laura Potts

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10 months

Found in the Shelter bookshop, Edinburgh.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

When you read old poems you wrote at school

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Laura Potts

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2 years

This is going to be exceptional. Spring Recommendation from @PoetryBookSoc .

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2 years

I love the trajectory of flight in this photograph from @gabriel_isak , found in @AestheticaMag . This is the gift of wings.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Here is a selection of my parents' prehistoric carpets.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Found in Hawridge Books, Bakewell.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Evening reading. One of my favourite collections from Peter Riley, a small hymn to the Calder Valley. 'Yes, I thought, passing under Nutclough Mill at night, / I want to live under these lights'

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1 year

Ten years ago today. She was so full of kindness.

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1 year

Summer at @YSPsculpture .

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1 year

There's little better than having the love and the time of a cat.

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Laura Potts

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10 months

Reading in the library at Chapel Allerton.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

Winter Morning by Enzo Crispino.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

Early March. Light is returning to the days again and the garden birds sing later. Tonight I watch the swifts come home, over the fields of Yorkshire.

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Laura Potts

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6 months

Ten whole years since Simpkin appeared and made my life a lot brighter.

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11 months

Yesterday at City Fields, celebrating the new sculpture, Ever-Glow, by Graeme Mitcheson. It's lovely to see my words in stone. The work celebrates the River Calder and the waterways of Wakefield. With thanks to the Council and to Graeme for asking me to be part of it.

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1 year

Stars on a river. The lush photography of Ellie Davies, found in @AestheticaMag .

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1 year

Dawn over the fields.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

An orange evening. In the garden, the blackbird is doing his duskwork. I watch him, little traveller, with silver in his wings; and hold you in my memory. Love, does it still rain in your garden in August? Are you watching your blackbird too?

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Laura Potts

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2 years

Here's a beautiful poem from John Foggin, published by @poetrybusiness . Why kill a Wren and her mid-winter song?

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Laura Potts

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9 days

@lippice Now we must go our separate ways...

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Laura Potts

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1 year

When in York, the Minstergate Bookshop.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

My little one enjoying the pretty spring flowers.

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21 days

@ImogenForster2 I'm not so sure. I've been reading it since Christmas!

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Laura Potts

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9 days

@johnpaulstonard Hi John-Paul. I haven't, but I think that's a good idea. Thank you.

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3 months

Early evening. In the garden, a blackbird sings his song to the sky. Over the terraces, the Calder, the fields; over the quiet allotments healed by rain; over the dusky woodlands where you speak my name like grief.

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Laura Potts

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9 days

@lippice I've been reading it since Christmas, very slowly. Which probably indicates how much it's excited me.

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16 days

Mondays are always the hardest.

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Laura Potts

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7 months

I love the joy in this photograph from @carlosidun , found in @AestheticaMag . Life is bright with laughter.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

I love the twilght in these photographs by @HenriPrestes , found in @AestheticaMag . There's something beautiful about the moments between sleeping and waking, like a giving and a vanishing at the very same time.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

The perfect evening. Artwork by Eeva Nikunen.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

April in Knaresborough.

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8 months

A weekend in Cumbria, where we found the most beautiful old chapel and churchyard.

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Laura Potts

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11 months

In Wakefield last week, unveiling the new sculpture at City Fields. With thanks to Graeme Mitcheson, the sculptor, for sharing his commission with me. It will be a beautiful light on dark winter nights.

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11 months

Yesterday at City Fields, celebrating the new sculpture, Ever-Glow, by Graeme Mitcheson. It's lovely to see my words in stone. The work celebrates the River Calder and the waterways of Wakefield. With thanks to the Council and to Graeme for asking me to be part of it.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Morning in Yorkshire. Yesterday's stars are leaving us, misty and soft in the morning light. My mother is quietly gardening in the place of her mother before her. These are the moments I keep for my memory, the solaces of home.

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Laura Potts

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26 days

On holiday with dad, 26 years ago.

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2 months

An attempt to pack the suitcase.

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Laura Potts

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10 months

Autumn again. I am suddenly excited by soup and pyjamas.

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Laura Potts

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15 days

Last night I dreamt there was a cauliflower dancing on the washing line, mocking me.

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Laura Potts

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4 months

I have a sneaky feeling that most people who say they hate cats probably haven't taken the time to get to know one properly.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

A gentle day at Stanley Ferry where I caught this swan in early flight.

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Laura Potts

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6 months

Sometimes I wear hats, sometimes I wear cats.

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Laura Potts

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26 days

The sea, the sea.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

My grandmother, age 16. Taken by the studio of Mark Cross in Dewsbury, 1937.

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Laura Potts

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21 days

@Calligrafreddie I think I'll pass...

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Laura Potts

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28 days

Voting time again. Remember: unless you're actively using your vote, you're passively allowing the status quo to continue.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Thought for the day. I wonder what a novel which takes place over the course of an hour, or a minute, or a second would look like, and whether it's even possible. Like Mrs Dalloway on crack.

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1 year

I love the warmth of these illuminated moons by Leonid Tishkov. "Private Moon is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life... Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right"

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Laura Potts

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5 months

A photograph taken in the early days of lockdown. I think this was a thrush, silhouetted against the dark March sky, looking very lonely.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

The monumental trees, the glimpses of stars. Another photograph from Ellie Davies, found in @AestheticaMag .

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1 year

This poem always hurts me.

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Laura Potts

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2 years

Looking forward to this with @NewWritingNorth this evening.

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5 months

The tracery of trees.

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Laura Potts

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9 months

Found in Mrs Lofthouse's Book Emporium, Scarborough.

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10 days

Rise by Jonas Hafner. Found in @AestheticaMag .

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1 month

A beautiful week in Cornwall where we sat on the harbour in St Ives.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

A quiet evening reading by the fire. Thank you to @IndigoDreamsPub for publishing a few of my poems recently.

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20 days

The new sculpture, Everglow, at City Fields in Wakefield. The work celebrates the River Calder and the waterways of Yorkshire. With thanks to Wakefield Council and the sculptor, Graeme Mitcheson, for carving my words in the stone.

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1 year

hello, I am Louisa May Owlcott

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Laura Potts

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6 months

Saturday. I am haunting the shelves of bookshops again.

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1 year

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Laura Potts

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6 months

With my Hundred Acre Wood pals, 21 years ago.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

A quiet evening reading in the garden. Thank you to Highland Park Poetry for publishing a few of my poems soon.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

"Take a moment with a glass of wine... and sit out in the sunshine or by the fire; give the poems some time and they will give back to you over and over again" - Deborah Alma.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

A summer day in my dungarees, 22 years ago.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

I love the grace of my cat's paws.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

A recent visit to the Bronte Parsonage to celebrate my birthday.

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Laura Potts

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10 months

Home, and the last of the warm mornings. I watch the neighbour's terrier play where snowfields soon will be. The sunlight leaves a seam of gold upon his coat, his soul.

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1 year

By Thomas A. Clarke, published by Moschatel Press.

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1 year

"Poetry isn’t science; not bound simply to report on the state of things, poetry is free to imagine what could be" A beautiful and haunting Guardian article by @David_Farrier on seascapes and the climate, featuring @CalebParkin and Steve Ely.

The classic ocean poetry taking on troubling new meanings

We hear the call of the sea in poems from Coleridge and Eliot to Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, but those words also sound a warning – if only we would listen

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Potts

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8 months

My hands remember hers.

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Laura Potts

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8 months

Eating homemade mince pies and brandy cream. Sweet as an afternoon wedding in spring.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Breakfast in Edinburgh.

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Laura Potts

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8 months

Books read (or re-read) in autumn.

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Laura Potts

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6 months

I love winter.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

Late morning. The sparrows swing in the gentle light over the fields of Yorkshire. My cat sits by the kitchen window, wingbeat in her eyes.

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Laura Potts

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4 months

A long weekend in a Hobbit Hole.

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Laura Potts

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3 months

The quiet grace of my cat's paws.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

April evening.

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3 months

Evening rain. At Stanley Ferry, the boats rock gently in the water's hands. The moorhen settles in her nest for the night, tinkering with song. The birds sing colour to the air in summer on the steel canals of Yorkshire.

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1 year

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1 year

Sunday. In the garden, the wind brings the wet scent of summer from the fields. I turn a page quietly, and think of you under warm harbour lights, and the violet skies of Scarborough.

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Laura Potts

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6 months

I like being quiet.

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Laura Potts

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5 months

Early evening. At Stanley Ferry, the boats rock gently in the water's hands. I think of you across the night, watching the Calder cross the Pennines, over the darkness of Yorkshire.

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Laura Potts

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2 months

Evening. I think of you in quiet hours, somewhere far from here. The birds are at their work again. Do you watch at golden hour the swallows on the terraces, the long cold miles they cross? Do you feel the way that absence soon will turn to loss?

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Laura Potts

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8 days

@OneGrandBooks Oh yes, I know! It wasn't intended literally.

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Laura Potts

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4 months

Sunday morning in the warm windowlight. The rest of the house is cold as a ghost but here I am, in sunlight.

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Laura Potts

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1 year

'Waterloo Station' by @lottiephoto , found in @AestheticaMag . I love the hesitancy of this picture, the stillness of this moment.

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Laura Potts

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8 months

I am considering getting rid of my phone. I haven't had social media (except Twitter) for three years and haven't missed it. I'm tired of consuming mindless information. My loved ones can call me on the landline. I want more time for the things I love.

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