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Beyond the Notes | 10. Listen
Of all the people who pass through our lives, it is often those willing to offer a listening ear whom we remember most fondly, yet perhaps it is nature…
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Beyond the Notes | 09. Mystery
In a world of certainty, perhaps we might find comfort in facing and accepting the unknown. Maybe we need to cling harder to the mystery and magic we…
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Beyond the Notes | 08. Seasons of Life
On a journey of never-ending change, of growth, of development, of hard times and good times, we all crave those constants, those people or things which…
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Beyond the Notes | 07. Scarecrows
In a throwaway society, where all too often, the many are sacrificed for the few, perhaps the scarecrow is the ultimate personification of the…
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Beyond the Notes | 06
From the tiniest light, a feint glow on a far-off horizon, dawn brings a new day, with new hope, and new possibilities, the sun's rising, an…
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Beyond the Notes | 05
In a world where promises are broken, often from the top down, it is easy to understand why so many of us seek firmer foundations elsewhere; a…
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Beyond the Notes | 04
Vast, infinite, and with unrelenting power, where the last place in England lies exposed to 5,000 miles of the sea, but where a comforting reminder of…
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Beyond the Notes | 03
A cat on a seat, a milk churn, more than a few puffs of steam, and an elegy for a time passing into history, where no one departs, and no one arrives.
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Beyond the Notes | 02
A mermaid, a church, a salty palace, simplicity at its finest, and music so raw, it is lost to the mists of time
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Beyond the Notes | 01
A composer of Elizabethan high renaissance music, a man who epitomises the English country idyll, a Daleswoman, and ultimately, a winter too many.
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