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Assoc for Scottish Literature on Nostr: My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the ...

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…

—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)

Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace

https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace

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