Acupuncture

For some years now, Nawaz Nazir has travelled from Sheffield every week or so to give acupuncture to people in the community here. He usually stays over with us. Nawaz is cricket-crazy and a practising Sufi and between appointments and in the evening and morning he is busy with his prayers or preparing food, [...]






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The work of writers has much in common with the work of ... Arctic fishermen. The writer has to look for the river and if he finds it frozen over he has to drill a hole in the ice. He must have a good deal of patience, weather the cold ... look for the deep water, cast the proper hook, and after all that work, he pulls out a tiny little fish. So he must fish again ... eventually landing a bigger fish. And another and another. Pablo Neruda

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