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Issue 1: In this issue Advice to a Would-be Entrepreneur A Lady's First Sighting of Michelangelo's David Captain W E Johns Rallies Us in the Dark Days of the War
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Man and Nature: A Meditation
On sunny days in Autumn we go out , if we can, to praise the ways of Nature and meditate on Man.
The hedge is flushed with berries and only just beyond a supermarket trolley is rusting in the pond.
The light is almost perfect. It glints, as children pass, on what was once a bottle and now a pile of glass.
How gold the leaves - a glory! We almost fail to see a little bag of dog crap hanging from a tree.
At last just near the viewpoint a welcome seat awaits. We move the empty chip bags and polystyrene plates
and holding hands we sit there. We watch the empty sky with vapour trails like warnings. We scuff our heels. We sigh.
Helena Nelson
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