My Wordly Wealth

Heather Williamson

Poetry on roots, love, life and faith

Tag: longing

  • Surviving on bara brith and wishful thinking

    Wales in October can be just lovely -strong winds perhaps and sharp showersbut interludes of sunshinethat take your breath away.Then coming home to lemsip and a new dependency on daytime tv, the rough edges of cancelled plans.I try to feel,to think “What next?”I miss the hills and the sunsets,shoes caked in wet sand,the waves that… Read.

  • On the train home from London

    I am fascinated by nostalgia. As CS Lewis wrote in his book The Weight of Glory, a person managing to travel back to a time long ago, whose memory was very sweet, “would not have found the thing itself, but only the reminder of it.” In German the word ‘sehnsucht’ sums up this sense of… Read.

  • Navenby

    Our lovely first home together. Too small for a growing family, and in need of many renovations, but dearly loved and remembered. I think the many dreams and the continued longing come from the fact that we had to move away – and that it was with a brand new baby. Rather traumatic perhaps, but… Read.

  • Read us again

    Is it escapismto take down from the shelf againthat old classic that you love – turning the dog-eared pages with that familiar anticipation?Is it merely comfort-seeking to watchtime after timethe film that is so brim-full of lovelinessthat you weep againand something in you is healed for a moment?I think it is a wish for the… Read.

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