2022 – Lynkos https://lynkos.net Sarah Gregg Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:13:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://lynkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/favicon.ico 2022 – Lynkos https://lynkos.net 32 32 December 2022 https://lynkos.net/december-2022/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:13:29 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=20536

A whirlwind month… Crete and the thrill of a new love affair, a cold, fleeting return to Italy, then the volcanic La Palma and the thrill of passing near the newest land on the planet. Paths and plants new and old, but already the intuition is taking shape. The future lies to the east and not the west.

1 December 2022 - Take-off to new adventures
2 December 2022 - The first of many
3 December 2022 - Incomprehension
4 December 2022 - Along the cucumber coast
5 December 2022 - Resistance and resilience
6 December 2022 - It's already too late
7 December 2022 - Old things
8 December 2022 - A couch with a view
9 December 2022 - Gaining altitude
10 December 2022 - Solitude
11 December 2022 - Looking for something familiar
12 December 2022 - No comment
13 December 2022 - A long, long way from home
14 December 2022 - The stony path to faith
15 December 2022 - The road home
16 December 2022 - Hung up to dry
17 December 2022 - It's party time in the piazza
18 December 2022 - Mediterranean biodiversity
19 December 2022 - The shadow fisher
20 December 2022 - Wings
21 December 2022 - Intermezzo
22 December 2022 - Urban reflections
23 December 2022 - When man decides to move a mountain
24 December 2022 - Dragons on the horizon
25 December 2022 - Company at breakfast time
26 December 2022 - Waiting for the storms to pass
27 December 2022 - Looking at culture with other eyes
28 December 2022 - Hanging on for dear life
29 December 2022 - Catching a glimpse as I pass
30 December 2022 - From darkness into light
31 December 2022 - A hint of sweet things to come
]]> November 2022 https://lynkos.net/november-2022/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:53:35 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=20520

Cold. This is what I remember most. And the evenings closing in. A month spent tying up loose ends, dreaming, planning, packing… destinations Crete, La Palma. Somewhere to awake new enthusiasm, to find new warmth for old bones.

1 November 2022 - Somewhere to pin my hopes on
2 November 2022 - The times they are a' changing
3 November 2022 - Exaggeration
4 November 2022 - Bugged by the rain
5 November 2022 - Table all set for a rainy autumn day
6 November 2022 - One man in his element
7 November 2022 - Feline warmth as the evenings draw in
8 November 2022 - We're all just passing through
9 November 2022 - To the horizon and back
10 November 2022 - Reflections are the nearest I'll ever get
11 November 2022 - Reaching out
12 November 2022 - You are my warmth and my salvation
13 November 2022 - The colour thief is back
14 November 2022 - It's a one way trip
15 November 2022 - Participation
16 November 2022 - The comings and goings of big city life
17 November 2022 - Breakfast
18 November 2022 - And then it rained...
19 November 2022 - A jewel by any other name...
20 November 2022 - Impressions of imperfection
23 November 2022 - White and blue on its way down
24 November 2022 - The stuff of dreams
25 November 2022 - Other people's home fires keep burning
27 November 2022 - A rhapsody of decay in orange and blue
28 November 2022 - When the frost catches fire at dawn, it's time to go
29 November 2022 - One last try
30 November 2022 - Relaxation pre-departure
21 November 2022 - It's all about orange
22 November 2022 - Coming in from the cold
26 November 2022 - Rainy day blues
]]> October 2022 https://lynkos.net/october-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:06:11 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19730

New commitments, new hopes, the hesitant start of a new adventure that would make sense of what I’ve become. One step at a time. The important thing is not to lose the rhythm. 

1 October 2022 - Simply the gold of a late autumn sun
2 October 2022 - Tapping into the energy
3 October 2022 - Lest I should forget
4 October 2022 - Walking the interface
5 October 2022 - Outside the tawny owl calls
6 October 2022 - No need to see the sky
7 October 2022 - Who knows where the future will take me
8 October 2022 - Walking into the light
9 October 2022 - Passers-by, then and now
10 October 2022 - Autumn in pastel shades
11 October 2022 - The smaller the better
12 October 2022 - Flyaway dawn
13 October 2022 - Beyond the call of duty
14 October 2022 - Curiosity keeps you young
15 October 2022 - You're always in my thoughts little frog
16 October 2022 - Two brothers and a car
17 October 2022 - I so wish there were another way
18 October 2022 - They'll all blow away in the end
19 October 2022 - Alien beauty
20 October 2022 - Lunch is served
21 October 2022 - The big bang
22 October 2022 The not-so-subtle art of understatement
23 October 2022 - Wishing for wings...
24 October 2022 - Stately residence
25 October 2022 - All I ask is to walk the shore
26 October 2022 - I've never believed in fairytales
27 October 2022 - Stranger than fantasy
28 October 2022 - Wide eyed
29 October 2022 - Everywhere and always out of tune
30 October 2022 - A strange sort of autumn
31 October 2022 - Italia rinasce con un fiore
]]> September 2022 https://lynkos.net/september-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:48:09 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19720

Summer trickles slowly away and a certain peace seeps back to my world with an audible sigh of relief. The old empties, the new gradually fills, but the memories itch and scratch, pulling me back. Acceptance is not an easy battle to win. 

1 September 2022 - That's just how some days are
2 September 2022 - It's not easy to make old things new again
3 September 2022 - Sometimes beauty really is that simple
4 September 2022 - Little critters
5 September 2022 - There where the eagles soar
6 September 2022 - Old joints, new remedies
7 September 2022 - Solidarity and survival
8 September 2022 - A welcome visitor
9 September 2022 - Making bread while the sun shines
10 September 2022 - A guest for dinner
11 September 2022 - Afternoon tea on the terrace
12 September 2022 - You'll never be able to reach the horizon
13 September 2022 - No mist but heaps of "mellow" fruitfulness
14 September 2022 - Hunting the hunter
15 September 2022 - A solitary vice
16 September 2022 - Ever feel like you're being watched?
17 September 2022 - Notes worth breaking the silence for
18 September 2022 - Home sweet home
19 September 2022 - "Carrellina"
20 September 2022 - Undoubtedly colours
21 September 2022 - Order prevails over entropy
22 September 2022 - Scrutinising the past before moving on
23 September 2022 - Fragile and frayed
24 September 2022 - Not always an easy path to follow
25 September 2022 - Now it really is autumn
26 September 2022 - The great leveller
27 September 2022 - My salvation lies in the little things
28 September 2022 - Welcome to the family
29 September 2022 - Just raindrops
30 September 2022 - Sometimes wings just wear out
]]> August 2022 https://lynkos.net/august-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:22:33 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19707

The first words on a new page in the book of life. Eyes heavy from nights made sleepless by other people’s revelry. Slowly a new centre of gravity takes shape, balanced between doubt and certainty. Waiting for the autumn rain to wash away the dust.

1 August 2022 - Satisfaction is shelf shaped
2 August 2022 - Today's breakfast, basking in the early morning sun
3 August 2022 - Looking up to a sky of change
4 August 2022 - Late summer blues
5 August 2022 - Out of my comfort zone
6 August 2022 - Not with a bang but a whimper
7 August 2022 - Wings at dawn waiting for take-off
8 August 2022 - If only we could...
9 August 2022 - A strange sort of summer
10 August 2022 - Never-ending
11 August 2022 - Under the rowan tree
12 August 2022 - Not just butterflies
13 August 2022 - The gospel according to Mark Zuckerberg
14 August 2022 - Genetically Modified Organism
15 August 2022 - Making the most of the fruitful times
16 August 2022 - Waiting for August to pass
17 August 2022 - Nearly time to go
18 August 2022 - The sweet scent of the world's turning
19 August 2022 - It helps to know when you're not wanted
20 August 2022 - That's life... really!
21 August 2022 - Sometimes simple is best
22 August 2022 - Troppo grande per la scatola dei ricordi
23 August 2022 - Other people's words
24 August 2022 - First fruits of a new passion
25 August 2022 - Alien presence
26 August 2022 - Thanks for being by my side
27 August 2022 - Late summer colours
28 August 2022 - And then there was the band...
29 August 2022 - With autumn just round the corner
30 August 2022 - Towards the light, always...
31 August 2022 - The only cathedral I need
]]> July 2022 https://lynkos.net/july-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:08:32 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19676

The quiet before the storm… ready, steady, go. Impossible not to look back, not to wonder, how, when, if (only). Home is? Seeking refuge in the little things seen in a new light with too many shadows. There will be clarity.

1 July 2022 - Very smart working
2 July 2022 - Regretfully just passing
3 July 2022 - Home entomology
4 July 2022 - Not an obvious choice
5 July 2022 - When the bell tolls
6 July 2022 - Fruitful times
7 July 2022 - From out of the storm comes peace
8 July 2022 - Scales
9 July 2022 - The survivors
10 July 2022 - For whom the bell tolls
11 July 2022 - So tired of all this
12 July 2022 - Ignorance is NOT bliss
13 July 2022 - The difference lies in the detail
14 July 2022 - Revisiting old paths under a watchful eye
15 July 2022 - The successors
16 July 2022 - Making sure the sparks will never fly
17 July 2022 - This is how it all begins
18 July 2022 - In the (distant) hands of TaskRabbit
19 July 2022 - Trying to pass unnoticed
20 July 2022 - Heartbreaking
21 July 2022 - Tie(s) dried... and the sun did the rest
22 July 2022 - Unambiguous beauty
23 July 2022 - Evolution, exaggeration, extinction
24 July 2022 - A time of fruitfulness
25 July 2022 - Flights of fantasy in the summer sun
26 July 2022 - Plucking up courage
27 July 2022 - Not yet ready for the twilight years
28 July 2022 - Once upon a time there was a flower...
29 July 2022 - How do you want your daily bread?
30 July 2022 - Merging into the background
31 July 2022 - Ikea blues
]]> June 2022 https://lynkos.net/june-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:29:17 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19503

Turbulent times, a roller coaster of the good and the bad, nearness and distance. The stability that comes from shared movement is more than skin deep and a sense of purpose does the rest.

1 June 2022 - Dining out
2 June 2022 - Today's path and it couldn't be better
3 June 2022 - Taking care of the little things
4 June 2022 - Everything seems much simpler above the clouds
5 June 2022 - Back to the land of long grass and small creatures
6 June 2022 - Getting used to the green again
7 June 2022 - It's been a while
8 June 2022 - Fingers crossed!
9 June 2022 - Stormy weather ahead
10 June 2022 - Bridge over troubled waters
11 June 2022 - I've never been much good at the eat or be eaten game
12 June 2022 - Broken things
13 June 2022 - And you... are you in or out?
14 June 2022 - Slow is best
15 June 2022 - Another day in paradise
16 June 2022 - Sharing other people's wor(l)ds
17 June 2022 - Passing time with the (very) little things
18 June 2022 - Going in the right direction?
19 June 2022 - The colours of faith
20 June 2022 - Fleetingly at home amongst the olive trees
21 June 2022 - Happy people doing happy things
22 June 2022 - Preparations
23 June 2022 - White hot
24 June 2022 - Thermoregulation as the sun comes up
25 June 2022 - Too hot for colours
26 June 2022 - Timeless movements on the stony plains
27 June 2022 - Nostalgia has a short memory
28 June 2022 - In the primeval forest
29 June 2022 - Last rays
30 June 2022 - As the sun goes down
]]> April 2022 https://lynkos.net/april-2022/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:54:55 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=19478

An icy start down familiar paths that wind aimlessly through juniper and buckthorn scrub in search of a direction. A sort of tentative orienteering without a map in search of new points of reference among a vague confusion of first flowerings and backward glances.  

1 April 2022 - What a welcome!
2 April 2022 - And the night fell as soft as a snowflake
3 April 2022 - Pink resistance
4 April 2022 - Will there also be new words?
5 April 2022 - Affirmation of precedence
6 April 2022 - Heads or tails?
7 April 2022 - Every hole tells a story
8 April 2022 - Breaking new ground
9 April 2022 - It's hard to keep the grey at bay
10 April 2022 - Too long waiting my turn
11 April 2022 - Survivors
12 April 2022 - An explosion from one day to the next
13 April 2022 - Reflections in a door knob darkly
14 April 2022 - One tree and its mountain
15 April 2022 - A clean start to see things more clearly
16 April 2022 - The good life
17 April 2022 - Exploring the new backyard
18 April 2022 - Everything leads back to where it all began
19 April 2022 - Keeping the (new) home fire burning
20 April 2022 - A classic for the first of the season
21 April 2022 - The clouds will pass
22 April 2022 - The promise of good things to come
23 April 2022 - Cold winds and ticks among the juniper scrub
24 April 2022 - Rooves in the rain
25 April 2022 - Flashes of sun, cold winds and the best company ever
26 April 2022 - It's worth making the effort
27 April 2022 - The village grocer goes multiethnic
28 April 2022 - When the sky comes to earth
29 April 2022 - Just when you thought you were alone
30 April 2022 - As far as the eye can see
]]> March 2022 https://lynkos.net/march-2022/ Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:36:47 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=18949

A month of light and shadow, of waiting, of transition. The end of an era and who knows what lies around the next corner. A story to be written, a blank page as white as the snow that insists and persists in its coldness. Buds waiting to burst as one door closes and another opens.

1 March 2022 - Hard times
2 March 2022 - Time like water needs to flow
3 March 2022 - Still a very long way to go
4 March 2022 - A toast to the people (and places) I love
5 March 2022 - Snowdrop on a drop of snow
6 March 2022 - The colours have run away to build a rainbow over the horizon
7 March 2022 - When I can't go out, they come in
8 March 2022 - They told me it wouldn't snow today
9 March 2022 - Filling up as the price soars
10 March 2022 - From one chromatic extreme to the other
11 March 2022 - Reaching for the light
12 March 2022 - Frozen fruitfulness at rest
13 March 2022 - Just look what happens when it's too cold to go out!
14 March 2022 -The days pass written in light and shadow
15 March 2022 - It's daisy time and little else
16 March 2022 - I know where it starts, but no-one knows where it ends
17 March 2022 - Adding flavour to a grey day
18 March 2022 - Storing up sweetness in bitter times
19 March 2022 - The tears of spring
20 March 2022 - Into the light
21 March 2021 - Sometimes all you can do is float and wait
22 March 2022 - Stability or mobility?
23 March 2022 - Breathing more freely in Covid times
24 March 2022 - The End (but only for today)
25 March 2022 - Almond blossom time
26 March 2022 - My smile for today
27 March 22 - Blowing here and there in the wind
28 March 2022 - Che cavolo!
29 March 2022 - Will I ever see you again?
30 March 2022 - In the rain, in the fast lane, in a hurry
31 March 2022 - Out one door, in another
]]> February 2022 https://lynkos.net/february-2022/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:10:48 +0000 http://lynkos.net/?page_id=16445

No sooner does the Covid pandemic seem to be easing its grip than war breaks out on the eastern front. Russia invades Ukraine, but nothing is as simple as it seems in the land of six of one and half a dozen of the other. More in anger than in sadness, I choose not to see and not to hear. I pass my days happily in blinkered oblivion, seeking out sweetness and the first flowerings.

1 February 2022 - Washday colours
2 February 2022 - Happy birthday to me
3 February 2022 - Fairytale time up close
4 February 2022 - Winter sun
5 February 2022 - Eliminating the superfluous
6 February 2022 - Even a snowdrop has a heart
7 February 2022 - That fleeting moment of colour
8 February 2022 - A thorn without a rose
9 February 2022 - Savouring every last photon
10 February 2022 - The colour is in the detail
11 February 2022 - Seeds of the future
12 February 2022 - Reflections on a a troubled surface
13 February 2022 - Reaching up, reaching out
14 February 2022 - Baci with a message
15 February 2022 - A promise of fertility
16 February 2022 - Things are stirring down in the woods
17 February 2022 - Orange is the colour of vitamin C
18 February 2022 - Calm on the surface, but below...?
19 February 2022 - Standing firm against the storm
20 February 2022 - Going where the spring flowers take me
21 February 2022 - Harmless fun in 50 shades of green
22 February 2022 - Love is... not only for Saint Valentine's
23 February 2022 - Specks of sunlight in the wild windswept woodland
24 February 2022 - Waiting for the colours to unfold
25 February 2022 - Every new beginning calls for courage
26 February 2022 - Digging my way out
27 February 2022 - Fragility in flames
28 February 2022 - And I thought it was spring!
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