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jerry simcock
@jerrysimcock.bsky.social
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Aka WildseedZen painter, writer, trying to follow a Buddhist path in East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
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jerry simcock @jerrysimcock.bsky.social · Oct 10
jerrysimcock.com/project/oil-... inadvertently deleted previous pinned post of link to website so here it is again!
Oil Paintings - Jerry Simcock
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The Children has finally found a place on the Madrid Review blog …been sitting around in the desk drawer for too long, glad it is out in the world…
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Abbé done - oils mostly, on canvas 125x 90cms
Oils on canvas abstract painting
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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world's first direct quantum observation of a bench
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A little girl peeks inside a tuba during the National Band Festival at Crystal Palace, London, 1923
A little girl peeks inside the mouthpiece of a tuba that is placed on a bench, nect to a man smoking a pipe
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Gil Fronsdal
‘The practice of mindful service becomes a powerful tool for dissolving the rigid boundaries of self and others that create so much suffering. When we encounter someone in need and respond na…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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So great to be with the geese yesterday in all their honking flight! They had settled in the back field but something set them up…
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The Aiguille and the Porte d'Aval seen upstream - 1885/1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110138
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Issue 6 is OUT! Our cover artist Lita Cabellut chats with Art Editor Lis Iglesias here #Art #madrid #Spain #litmag
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Lita Cabellut: Art as the Muscle of Human Intelligence
An Interview with Lis Iglesias
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November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Remembering to be present.
For us #HumansOfBlueSky
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Joanna Macy
‘The great open secret of gratitude is that it is not dependent on external circumstance. It’s like a setting or channel that we can switch to at any moment, no matter what’s going on around us. It…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Study for a Gaelic Mass #1
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Vu Thu Hien, Pagoda Thankgiving (watercolor on handmade paper, 2009)
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Some good news this morning about a short story I wrote a while back… so pleased…more to follow…
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Ongoing…
Oil On canvas - abstract could be a wooded path or lake!
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Great stuff
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Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…

—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
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This Is It by William Letford Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an it’s November. Christmas is close. Av been away bit noo am back an ivery coarner is a different colour cause am hame an memories ur painted wae mischief. Am outside Gregs eatin a macaroni pie an a busker picks up eez guitar an plugs in eez amplifier. The sound fae the strings is like frost. Eez young an the dreams thit wur boarn in eez bedroom wake me up. Am watchin people passin an they know thit eez good bit they don’t want tae look. They turn thur heeds an tilt thur ears an jog on. If a hud a spare pound a wid throw it bit a don’t so a jist listen. I’d like tae tell um thit this is it, this is where the hammer hits the stane an sparks ur made, standin oan a corner in yur hame toon, an audience eh one radge eatin a macaroni pie, bit singin, wee man, yur singin.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Gustave CAILLEBOTTE (1848-1894)
- “Boulevard vu d'en haut”
- Huile sur toile 65 cm x 54 cm
- Peint en 1880
- Localisation: collection privée
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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‘Llananno’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
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A poem that offers the most exquisite of moments.

'Llananno'
by R.S. Thomas
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Final thread of all my starter packs for the year by way of thank you to all the people who have helped and supported me this year. First: Great Writers in Search of an Agent starter pack. @shinewoman.bsky.social @clareobrien.bsky.social @tooriekep.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Up where the Larches crack
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Go on, go on support The Madrid Review!
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Update - slow progress
Oil on canvas an abstract landscape- watery woodland maybe involved!
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Love it!
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The Scotsman's Poem of the Week

'The Fitba Multiverse' by Hamish MacDonald
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Thousands of rare American songs spanning jazz, blues and gospel — some more than a century old — are now available for the public to enjoy online.

Further info and link are in the alt text 👇
Thousands of rare American recordings - some 100 years old - go online for all to enjoy. That’s thanks to a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation , which digitized the recordings from rare and aging vinyl collections. Learn more: https://ow.ly/7Ooq50Xsnbs ✍️ Robert Garrova 📸 Courtesy of Dust-to-Digital Foundation
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As the week tilts toward Thanksgiving, Oliver Sacks's stirring meditation on gratitude and the deepest measure of living, composed as he was dying www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/o...
Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sketchbookery from year
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM