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Hope Is
A reflection on hope, belonging, and finding light in unexpected places.
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Are you OK – Reprise
A quiet reflection on healing and release, where pain gives way to strength, and a hidden burden is finally lifted — leaving behind gratitude, resilience, and the courage to begin again.
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Are You OK?
“Are you OK?” asked the nurse, as machines hummed and lights glared. The patient, yellow-tinged, weary, lay silent while the world hurried around her — fluids, paracetamol, antibiotics, needles and scans, the mystery of illness written in her blood. And what of her husband? Inside: fear, exhaustion, despair. Outside: armour of calm, the warrior, the rock at her bedside. Is he OK? She is not ordinary — if such a word belongs to anyone. Her body a puzzle of conditions that weave together into fragility, into fight. Is she OK? Days blur into nights. Corridors become home, moved from ward to ward, sleep fractured by monitors’ beeps, by rubies of…
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Daffodil
From the earth, each spring they rise, Golden flames beneath wide skies. A nation’s bloom, both bold and bright, A symbol of strength, of hope, of light. Wales has claimed this flower fair, Yellow as laughter, warm as care. Green as the grass of home so dear, Sung by Tom with voice sincere. Its pointed tips—like Eryri’s height, A crown of gold, a nation’s might. A bloom of rebirth, of pride anew, A land resilient, strong and true. Yet beyond the hills and valleys wide, The daffodil stands for those who guide. A beacon of hope, a gentle grace, A hand to hold in life’s last place. Marie Curie’s emblem bright, Through darkest days, a guiding light. Not…
