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jerry simcock
@jerrysimcock.bsky.social
Aka WildseedZen painter, writer, trying to follow a Buddhist path in East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk

www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
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Oil Paintings - Jerry Simcock
jerrysimcock.com
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Remembering to be present.
For us #HumansOfBlueSky
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 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
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
Ongoing…
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great stuff
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
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
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)
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
Up where the Larches crack
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Go on, go on support The Madrid Review!
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Update - slow progress
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Love it!
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 👇
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.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sketchbookery from year
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A poem - a moment or two at Pishwanton Wood #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Cruck frames and roof structures in the barn up at Pishwanton
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Went to a founding meeting of greenwoodworkers, bodgers and wood folk at Bolton Muir wood today. Great to catch up with old pals and new faces round a fire then took a nostalgic trip up to Pishwanton and pleased to see Malcolm’s timber framed buildings are looking good…
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What a read - such heart rending and yet compassionate stuff. Learned so much about modern Greek history through the stories of these vigorous and compelling women. So inspiring in their will to raise souls and challenge the enormous damage of the
Capitalist and fascist right cm
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Another section
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM