@clerotto.bsky.social
Creative writer, content creator ,Linguist ,trainer, activist Human Rights campaigner, Against all forms of violence against women & children Interested in systems reform & healing from trauma & adversity in education & communities Language Matters
If you enjoyed Louise Kennedy's excellent novel set in The Troubles,channel 4's drama at its best
Loved the Soundtrack starting with 'F- you Dusty'
So a Dusty evening on a rainy night in the Wilds of Durham
I close my eyes & count to 10
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There will be singing in times of darkness...
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One of my favourite quotes
As the ink blot explodes
Rather like a teardrop
#passion #VAWG
#VAWC #CSA
#DomesticViolence #EconomicAbuse
#Trauma #CoerciveControl
Revisiting a house, turned war zone, after 15yrs locked out, I was reminded that abuse escalated during pregnancy
Women & their unborn child have particular biological vulnerability in pregnancy
@unsrvaw.bsky.social
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It’s premeditated cruelty putting 2 lives at risk
At a Durham Arts-based research seminar day in 2018 with Dr Caroline Lenette I learned via writing the hidden truth that #Economicabuse isn’t a story “about keys” & from
@LucyGoBag
I learned from my inventory I took of my house in 2019 - the home is a war zone in such cases
A book that helped me make sense of visiting a domestic abuse war zone (abandoned house) reminds me of effects so precious after disaster
@lucygobag.bsky.social
seeks to preserve for traumatised survivors
The biggest impact on me were seeing letters, pregnancy notes & scans after 15 yrs
An important call for Mothers
I was hospitalised towards the end of my 3rd pregnancy as a result of #coercivecontrol & the hospital had words with my partner about vulnerability of my child & his duty to create a safe space for us
Pregnancy is a key time for abuse of Power
#DomsticAbuse #VAWC
#RemembranceDay wakening with thoughts of the tremendous efforts of young men in all wars to communicate with their loved ones no matter where they are
A letter or card from a foreign field.
A tenacious testament to the power of Love ❤️
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#LestWeForget
Monday wet, windy & golden
on cosy Autumnal nights
Relaxing listen to Ennio Morricone Greatest hits
(Born on this day)
a gift & firm favourite on such nights with a good book, blanket & pot of tea
Morricone. Cinema Paradiso
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Washing Day in Venice
I began it as an investigation.
I turned silences and nights into words.
What was unutterable, I wrote down.
I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
There's that patience again
Cultivate it. It's worth it.
“À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes."
"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall
enter the splendid Cities.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
Carlo Levi
“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
La Cuccagna- Gigi Pedroli
“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
A glorious teatime singalong
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One Fine Day
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Reflection #RemembranceSunday walk in the village where my Great Great Grandad McGuire lived
Most men from the village who signed up never returned
31 Households lost a close loved one
In one street 13 men were killed & more wounded
6 men died on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme
By the end of WW1, more than 80,000 cases of what was then known as 'shell shock' had been recorded by British Army medical staff, with 20,000 still suffering.
Trauma from witnessing & experiencing violence
Remains a remembering
A haunting of the Soul
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With Simon Armitage’s work we also explore old wars through modern wars & the battlefield brought to our streets
We have to remember
But remembering for those who lived it
The voices of those who witnessed
a haunting
The Poet Witness
'Does anyone SEE a Soul worth saving'
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Simon Armitage
“There’s something about poetry
which is oppositional
Poetry is a form of dissent
… there’s something a little bit
obstinate about it
It’s the literary equivalent of
the awkward squad”
#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday
#WeWillRememberThem #PoetryofWitness
A treasured anthology of Simon Armitage’s Centenary response to photos of Battlefields of the Somme
‘I’ll speak now about Autumn’s storms
Often I’ve witnessed a gang of reapers being merrily led
Into golden fields to scythe down a ripe crop’
#LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem
#RemembranceSunday
When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe,
I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe.
When the War is over and we've finished up the show,
I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow.
A.A.Milne
#RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem #Trauma #Recovery #Healing
'They will want me to forget
But I can't
I won't
This is my promise to you now
All of you'
Vera Brittain 'A Testament of Youth'
#RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem
#LestWeForget
n 1975 we were assigned to an old person in our Parish to visit every Friday afternoon & make tea. I had Miss Burns, she was alone & slept in her chair at home. She had no family. She’d lost 7 young men in WW1 6 brothers & her Fiancé
It was all she talked about
A memoir read many times over the years
Made into a beautiful film
About a Promise
To Remember
Final Scene
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The first Step
towards
Courage
#CiascunPasso
The Courage to Change
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Not all views are the full picture
We take window dressing too seriously
The best projects, relationships & plans
are not in the window
You blink then everything has changed
While you are distracted by scenery
The jewels Step out of sight
#CiascunPasso Cragside, Northumberland
#EachStep
“If you raise a wall, think about what you leave out.”
Italo Calvino
The first step is to lift the hammer
With #EachStep that we demolish our expectations and with every step we find ourselves faced with our denials and illusions
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From @LiviaValerio.
"If I tell you that the city
I am journeying to
is discontinuous
in space and time,
now more sparse
now more dense,
you must not believe
that one can stop
searching for it."
~Italo Calvino✍️
~Le città invisibili📚
#CiascunPasso
Our Angel today is an Autumnal Cupid with hammer by Rembrandt
‘Love is a golden bubble
Full of dreams
That waking breaks
and fills us with extremes’
Christopher Marlowe
Endrigo- Bolle di Sapone
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"Ingrained sexism" is hiding from the shores of the Med to the mountains of Mourne, from London to San Paolo
Ingrained sexism in the judiciary. The few who live to tell & keep their children?
You Few
You Lucky Few
You Brave Band of Mothers
Proud to be one of you
@drproudman.bsky.social
Sometimes we don't get justice
So we backtrack looking for clues
The keys remain out of our reach
We look down the throat of the Wolf
No key
Then we discover the key
was always in our pocket
With #CiascunPasso
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