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Stories about shared places and ordinary habits

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Essays

Longer pieces on attention, time and neighbourhoods.

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Walking the same path for a year

Twelve visits to one stone path under the trees, and a slow lesson in noticing things that only change when you are not looking.

A stone-paved path covered in yellow leaves, between a stone wall and trees, with a small stone building beyond.

The list of hills

A notebook of every hill climbed since childhood, and what a thirty-year list teaches about finishing things.

A small station with a long covered walkway beside a quiet road and roundabout signs, under a dry, rocky hillside.