AS IS LIFE! .. .

Posted on December 16, 2020 by edenbray

AS IS LIFE! .. .

 

So painting – the life of paint – is a struggle!

and a trial, and a test – as is life!

There must be patience, endurance and some agony

for the ecstasy, for the moments,

for the brief moments of joy are born not made

The life must be nourished, encouraged, developed

but it comes of itself

It is born amidst anguish and labour

As a mother bears a child – as is life!

.. .

considering Georges Roualt

                                                                               

edenbraytoday12.04.1986

 

                                                  bio_rouault_georges

Georges Roualt

1871 ~ 1958

…

ROUALT NUDE

Here is an example of Georges Roualt’s work and how his artistic observation transcends the usual social mores to create something sincere, immediate and breathtakingly beautiful without overdue descriptive line,  the need to be judgemental or show prejudice in any shape or form.  

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MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 7 – NOLI TIMERE – DO NOT BE AFRAID

Posted on December 15, 2020 by edenbray

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 7 – POEM 5

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

Finally, to Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – TODAY  – the Poem – NOLI TIMERE ~ DO NOT BE AFRAID  : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

.   .   .

NOLI TIMERE – DO NOT BE AFRAID .. .

⚐⚐⚐ 

.. .

I came very late to the party

By the time I arrived it had started

Coleridge was dancing with Langston

Emily had a whole group of admirers

In the corner I noticed was Seamus

and the spotless Paul Muldoon

Shamelessly chatting of McClaverty

with Longley and Andrew Motion

Keates and Byron they were there

And Shelley at one point stood on a chair

Hemmingway kind of got in the door

Eminem sat in the corner on the floor

The music was loud they were playing Dylan

Some fool was heard reciting Ibsen

I heard some voices raised,

might just be Ginsberg, Kerouac

along with other bad seeds and Nick Cave

out the back, on the table, in the kitchen

In the yard, some actor fellows

had started a fire with guffaws

and a pair of ancient bellows

Wordsworth was seated at a bureau

he wrote an ode

While ‘the bard’ was there

directing the show

In the far distance I heard an owl

and later a pussycats soft meow

                                                                                    

                                                                                        edenbraytoday 13.08

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MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 5/6 – BRAVE NEW WORLD – everyman

Posted on December 14, 2020 by edenbray

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 5/6 – POEM 4

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

Finally, to Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – TODAY  – the Poem – a brave new world ~ everyman  : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

.   .   .

BRAVE NEW WORLD – the collection

CIRCA. 1970

In the year 1970 I wrote a series of poems which were accepted for inclusion in a national anthology of poetry reflecting life in Britain. I stupidly failed to complete the paperwork in time for the print and subsequent publication and the 5 poems were later mislaid completely. 

Although I made repeated attempts to re-write them I was never happy with the results. Finally, during my personal CV-19 isolation I had the time to work on the re-writes and earlier this year I self-published the results as a collection 50 years on from when the originals were written under a new but borrowed title – A Brave New World.

As with the Tales of the Swan-dyke selection I have chosen a representative piece for this newest compilation – Modern Works 2020 to save too much duplication and I have chosen the lead piece – everyman which is included here.

everyman

                                                                   everyman ~ An illustration by Warwick Eede                         

                                                                                                  edenbraytoday 

.. .

BRAVE NEW WORLD .. . 

everyman .. .

.. .

everyman was born for this

   this moment bright of sense, hope and reason

   a borrowed spear, a salted tear, a kiss so soft and sweet

   God, not fair as we count fair, went on ahead

   left earth to spin, man to sin and virtue in a tin

   I found it once, so well hidden

.

Who climbed the mountain top?

   and saw a golden eagle soar, or heard the wild bear roar?

   stepped inside a church to pray, asked a holy man the way?

   when all we have is touch and feel and human love

   the moment, the minute, the occasional sensation

   I find its always so well hidden

.

and everyman must find the way

   not born to pour his life away, when lost in indecision,

   no time for God, no time for prayer, he finds the time to listen

   the church may rob the soul, yet in the snow still glisten

   but only God can make us whole, search deep within the soul

   ignite the spirit given

.

Who first descended?

   attended by some obscured, mutated passion?

   the best dreams are often interrupted 

   by the greyest, greenest mission

   and everyman will have to choose his own particular obsession

   or find within the joy of life, or learn the harshest lesson

   they keep it so well hidden

.

everyman will reach journeys end

   find their setting sun, finish then this marathon they run

   and everyman is every woman, every child and every son

   fractured vessels all, with tales of pain 

   and valour, joy or squalor

.

everyman stands alone, 

   a bit afraid of breathing now forever

   darkness keeps this so well hidden

.. .

                                                                                        edenbraytoday 26.05.2020

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The DESDEMONA

Posted on December 13, 2020 by edenbray

The DESDEMONA .. .

..

Keep sweet and holy

and remember to laugh

Your serious nature can make

you glum, even morose

All sorrow carries its own joy

though often born deep

Although we do defend the truth

the truth needs no defending

There are many voices in the world

some strong and absorbing, more unheard

Stand on the ground of the truth

that you find is sure and rejoice!

Make your choices and leave

your worries with God

For God cares about you

Get into God and get into the world with God

Be active, be happy, be strong

and when the light fades

and the stumps are drawn

Retire to God’s pavilion

and take refreshment

You will bat again

and bowl

Total salvation, though immediate

takes time to work out

And time belongs to God

for God is eternal

A spiritual mind is a free mind

Do not keep a rigid mind

Relax, the Spirit comes as easy

as we breath

Life is for living and giving

not only receiving and believing

And at the day’s end

you may smile and be assured

You cannot change the world

except by changing the world in you

Rejoice!

..

Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly ~ amen!

.. .

edenbraytoday15.9.1985

..

Authors Note:- I found two old journals of verse that I wrote in the 1980’s during my thirties and even younger and I was struck by their freshness and minimalist naiveté.

I have enjoyed reading them, almost as though they were written by someone else. They speak of aspirations, of faith and hope which is what I believe we all need right now. There is a nice Kerouac naturalness about them too so I’m going to put them here on my site for people to read and make their own mind up about them. Catalogued and Categorised – THE LOST JOURNALS 1980’s

Also, I am reminded of the great wordsmith and troubadour BOB DYLAN, a personal mentor and inspiration to me, who has said that on reading the early songs he wrote back in his twenties from albums like the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – that he doesn’t recognise the person who wrote them anymore. Of course Dylan is in fact the supreme enigma and says a lot of stuff but then we all do, don’t we?

.

edenbraytoday

..

Desdemona and Othello

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MODERN WORKS – 2 – HE DID NOT KNOW HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL MIND TILL THE CROWS HAD GATHERED ROUND HIM .. .

Posted on December 13, 2020 by edenbray

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 2 – POEM 1

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

PAYPAL LINK – TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF – MODERN WORKS 2020

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

Finally, to Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – TODAY A CATCH-UP  – the Poem – HE DID NOT KNOW HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL MIND TILL THE CROWS HAD GATHERED ROUND HIM  : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

.   .   .

HE DID NOT KNOWN HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL MIND TILL THE CROWS HAD GATHERED ROUND HIM .. .

.. .

He did not know he had a beautiful mind

   until the crows began to gather round

Did not feel the wind of change or hear the rain begin to pour

   did not hear the men of pain were knocking at his door

His friends departing left him not a soured note

   or helped him fill the emptied moat

The walls were falling, angels calling, he had given up his all

   maybe not in coloured notes, or silver coin

His heart still wretched beneath the throne

   of light and glory, there the masters tragic story

And all his dreams of blood and gory pain,

   a tattooed stain and he the  never free of fear 

He felt the dark night drawing near

   the sound of tears, a kind of ringing in his ears

Behemoth had arrived and he no cavalcade to greet him

   or any hope that he might beat him, into the bloodied earth

His sword now vacant from his belted girth

   just words of love upon his tongue lolling

O’ Behemoth deny your torture, return my mirth

   my joy of life, my heart of faith with which I may

Destroy this wraith, then fall upon my gourd, recite

   my Lamentations midst protestations to thy nations

Blesséd Michael hath now arrived, 

   he who witnessed the Saviours Cup

He of whom a finer mind as strong as lions

   is leader of the Angel kind, blind to human greed

   and all the passions upon which fall mans seed

   are born to thee, sweet breath of praise

Once more this virtue is a golden vase 

   by which we find new ways to order all our days

He had not known these thoughts so kind

   came from out his own sweet mind

Till behind the summer clouds he saw 

   not raven, nor the purple-headed jack-a-daw

Not wrook, nor bird of prey sweeping low

   in gatherings of night, a crowd of hooded crow

                                                                             

                                                                                        edenbraytoday 25.10.2020

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UNTITLED – JUNE ’86

Posted on December 12, 2020 by edenbray

UNTITLED FROM 1986

..

Recollections

emotive memories

lost moments – we live

..

I remember when I was young

when we were children

playing – the things we did!

..

School times, hard times

love times

it all comes back

..

Does the sap rise?

here the lump in my throat

there the ache in my heart

..

The Summer of .. .   . ..’

that cold, cold winter

my first car, what a peach

..

Memories skip and dance

whimper, pall and fade

live, warm and energise

..

I’m thinking of you

the things we did

Wow!

..

And you know its fun

to remember

even sorrow has its end

..

Shaft of reason

hand of compassion

moment of understanding

..

We grope to experience

the plight of others

the memories they carry

..

We fear the night dreams they know

the sad tales they could tell

we whimper at their loss

..

The terror  of darkness

and agony that surrounds us

we stand aghast

..

Can we lift, nurture?

then be done and do it!

more often we listen

..

And we, as the tale is told wonder

till confronted by the past

we long for the future 

..

edenbraytoday26.6.86

..

Authors Note:- I found two old journals of verse that I wrote in the 1980’s during my thirties and even younger and I was struck by their freshness and minimalist naiveté.

I have enjoyed reading them, almost as though they were written by someone else. They speak of aspirations and hope which is what I believe we all need right now. There is a nice Kerouac naturalness about them too so Im going to put them here on my site for people to read and make their own mind up about them. Catalogued and Categorised – THE LOST JOURNALS 1980’s

Also, I am reminded of the great wordsmith and troubadour BOB DYLAN, a personal mentor and inspiration to me, who has said that on reading the early songs he wrote back in his twenties from albums like the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – that he doesn’t recognise the person who wrote them anymore. Of course Dylan is in fact the supreme enigma and says a lot of stuff but then we all do, don’t we?

.

edenbraytoday

freewheelin

                    my favourite album cover

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MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 4 – DYLAN’S PROMISE

Posted on December 12, 2020 by edenbray

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 4 – POEM 3

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

PAYPAL LINK – TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF – MODERN WORKS 2020

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

Finally, to Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – TODAY  – the Poem – DYLAN’S PROMISE  : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

.   .   .

DYLAN’S PROMISE .. . 

.. .

And if he be an Welsh poet

It is true one day he maybe up and leave me sound

   but for now, he loyal Dylan stands his ground

   and answers not, my loyal prince of Camelot

.. .

And if he be a folk singer

Of tempered voice and regional accent pure

   his detractors may stammer, turn to extracting ure

   he answers not in pain, my loyal knight Gawain

.. .

And if he be a faithful dog

He meddleth not in politics with law or health

   but question not, rather he to rely on stealth

   to catch his ball and run with it, my loyal prince Sir Lancelot

.. .

And if he were a Jousting Colt

Of Arabian extraction dressed in pomp’s caparison

   he would carry me upon his back, go forth again

   to smite the foe a fatal blow, Llamrei’ my loyal knight Sir Dylan 

.. .

                                                                                        edenbraytoday 19.11.20

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MODERN WORKS 2020 – 3 – AN ODE TO LEXY

Posted on December 11, 2020 by edenbray

 

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 3 – POEM 2

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

PAYPAL LINK – TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF – MODERN WORKS 2020

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

 

Finally, to Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – TODAY  – the Poem – AN ODE TO LEXY  : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

.   .   .

ODE TO LEXY .. . 

She is a beautiful girl is Lexy

   hair in waves as dark as Irish peat

Her tiny feet, she can run to greet you 

   in the pale morning

Such a beautiful girl is sweet Lexy

   as warm as Rosey by the fire

Her little hearts one desire

   to be loved and cared for, therefore

I am the fiddler

   I am the jaunty sailor leading thee

   I’d never hurt thee 

I’d bring thee home my wee

   timorous girl and put you safely to yon’ bed

The sweetest doll is tiny Lexy

   a morning song is my Lexy, a sonnet

And if she were a wee girl 

   she must wear a flowered bonnet

        

                                                                                        edenbraytoday 20.09

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Heaven I

Posted on December 10, 2020 by edenbray

Heaven I

.. .

I went down to the edge of time today

I heard the sounds and saw the sights

of eternities dawn

.. .

The cries of lostness and alone

the vision of creatures living

and clinging to the edge of our world

.. .

Clinging with feet grasping tightly

crying with all of heart and voice

flying and shimmering on the edge

.. .

I watched with awe and pain

my senses shocked, my emotions drawn

here on the edge they tremble

.. .

Squabbling, retching, clutching the shortening days

on the edge of eternity

at the beginning of time

.. .

I went down to the edge of experience

and there I felt the agony of creation

Outcasts, refugees, nomads, strangers

.. .

These are the friends off my bitter moments

here they dwell for a season and thrive

for a time on the edge of hope and comfort

.. .

Young life, they grasp and foster

new life they nurture and provide

on the edge, at the end of the world

.. .

I went down to the sea’s border today

and dwelt with the strangeness of life

I caught the sprays fresh hope

.. .

Here on the edge, I sensed the pain of beauty

I enjoyed the laughing of the day

the triumph amidst the greyness

.. .

Yes, I went down to the cliffs today

and caught the air of eternity’s light

on the edge, on the edge

.. .

edenbraytoday26.06.1990

.. .

Author’s comment – I wrote this poem in 1990 – I was 39 years old – over 30 years ago!

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MODERN WORKS 2020 – 1 – FOREWORD

Posted on December 10, 2020 by edenbray

A NEW PUBLICATION:

MODERN WORKS 2020 ~ 1 – THE FOREWORD

To celebrate the launch of my NEW booklet containing 16 diverse poems and essays entitled : MODERN WORKS 2020 – I am happy to offer a signed, printed hard-copy and FREE worldwide delivery. All but one of these 16 pieces are BRAND NEW WORKS completed during 2020.

This latest collection of written verse – MODERN WORKS 2020 – comes in the usual edenbray-pamphlet A5 format and is printed professionally and beautifully in a 36 page booklet style publication with a cream-stock card cover that I have self-published to my own specifications.

I am able to offer my 2020 Annual of Verse at an opening price of just £7.00 inc. post and packing for shipping to literally anywhere in the world. So please use the PAYPAL Link below to make your purchase or you can contact us by leaving a message in the comments box at the foot of this page or please email me directly at:-stepheneede689@btinternet.com – I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you and we will make sure you get a copy of my new book/pamphlet and also keep you up to date with any developments regarding my work.  – (please indicate if you would rather NOT receive emails concerning my work when you order)

PAYPAL LINK – TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF – MODERN WORKS 2020

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Many thanks ~ edenbray

Finally, TO Celebrate the launch of my NEW BOOK I am re-posting all 16 poems over 16 consecutive days RIGHT HERE on my edenbray-BLOG-SITE B  – starting TODAY with The Foreword : ~ 

.   .   .

MODERN WORKS 2020

by edenbray

THE FOREWORD .. .

. .. It is the close of the year 2020 and I am sitting writing this on the toilet for obvious reasons. So, what kind of a year has it been?

Yes, what a year we have had. No one has escaped the horror and I am torn between two distinct film images as I sit attempting to sum up 2020 and also introduce my latest collection of written verse which is an anthology of the most momentous year of my 54 year career as a creative writer. Indeed the longest gestation I have ever heard of.

The images I speak of concern what you might consider extreme contrasts. Firstly I can see in my minds eye the much vaunted and late Marlon Brando clutching his bald, sweaty and pigment streaked face, appearing as the ‘madman’ Colonel Klutz in the Ford Coppola 1979 epic Apocolypse Now, which was adapted from the Joseph Conran novel – Heart of Darkness.

‘Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.’ – Klutz  

The second image in my minds eye is of the uneccesarily maligned Sir Cliff Richard sitting on the toilet, much like myself currently, as he played a set of bongos while appearing as the talented young drummer and singer Bert Rudge in the Val Guest 1959 satire Espresso Bongo which was adapted from the Saville Theatre stage musical production of the same name. My father appeared at the Saville Theatre around 62.

‘And then answer the question. Does it make your heart flutter? Yes or no, its a yes or no question! No equations allowed.’ – Rudge

Welcome to my world over these past 12 months. I think there’s been horror and there’s definitely been flutter and then please answer the question – So, what kind of a year has it been?

                                                                                                              edenbraytoday 6.12.2020 

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