Newsletter twenty three
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charlie_cochraneI want to start by wishing you all a truly blessed Christmas and a prosperous 2011. 2010’s been a good year, if a little too swift in the passing.
News:
Currently busy with line edits on the next Cambridge Fellows book, which is coming soon from Samhain.
When you read the blurb, please be assured that I’d only torture the boys so far; trust me on this one. Here’s a bit of the letter Jonty writes to Orlando on the eve of embarkation – the sonnet is courtesy of Alex Broughton who can do much better ones than I ever could.
Don’t weep overmuch. Remember me with fondness but allow yourself to let me go. Don’t just return to your old ways. Keep up the bridge with Matheson—assuming he survives—and have Matthew to High Table ditto. Find someone else to love. You’ve learned what it is now to share your life, don’t snatch it back and hoard it again. I wrote you this sonnet. Don’t laugh at my efforts.
I’ll live on in you, though time transform
My face into a faded print and dust embrace
the relics of our love. May there be born
in you nothing but joy, I would your face
wear no long-time mourning. True, awhile
the agonies of loss, the memory pain
brings, will cut you through. But then, dear friend, smile
at solved equation, number off the gain
we had between us. Even there in seventh hell
of mud-drenched, bloody waste, to think of you
is still to sing of beauty, heart as well
as body’s grace; and mind which much can do
to shape a different world. Let this not be
our end: with you, love is infinity.
Lessons in Trust is up for a CAPA award over at The Romance Studio.
Inspiration:
Less inspiration than reflection this time around. Have been posting every day in advent over at my ‘other’ blog – you can find all the posts linked on this page. You might find out things about me and the Cochrane family to surprise you.
News:
Currently busy with line edits on the next Cambridge Fellows book, which is coming soon from Samhain.
When you read the blurb, please be assured that I’d only torture the boys so far; trust me on this one. Here’s a bit of the letter Jonty writes to Orlando on the eve of embarkation – the sonnet is courtesy of Alex Broughton who can do much better ones than I ever could.
Don’t weep overmuch. Remember me with fondness but allow yourself to let me go. Don’t just return to your old ways. Keep up the bridge with Matheson—assuming he survives—and have Matthew to High Table ditto. Find someone else to love. You’ve learned what it is now to share your life, don’t snatch it back and hoard it again. I wrote you this sonnet. Don’t laugh at my efforts.
I’ll live on in you, though time transform
My face into a faded print and dust embrace
the relics of our love. May there be born
in you nothing but joy, I would your face
wear no long-time mourning. True, awhile
the agonies of loss, the memory pain
brings, will cut you through. But then, dear friend, smile
at solved equation, number off the gain
we had between us. Even there in seventh hell
of mud-drenched, bloody waste, to think of you
is still to sing of beauty, heart as well
as body’s grace; and mind which much can do
to shape a different world. Let this not be
our end: with you, love is infinity.
Lessons in Trust is up for a CAPA award over at The Romance Studio.
Inspiration:
Less inspiration than reflection this time around. Have been posting every day in advent over at my ‘other’ blog – you can find all the posts linked on this page. You might find out things about me and the Cochrane family to surprise you.
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