Winner of Wrecsam National Eisteddfod crown - 4th Aug.

Crown winner Owain Rhys
Image: https://nation.cymru/culture/winner-of-wrecsam-national-eisteddfod-crown-announced/

Owain Rhys is the winner of the Wrecsam National Eisteddfod crown for his poems about living with a loved one who is suffering with dementia.

The crown – sponsored by Elin Haf Davies – and a cash prize of £750 was presented to Owain in north Wales on Monday (August 4) by Prydwen Elfed Owens.

The prize was awarded for a “pryddest” or collection of poems not in the traditional Welsh style cynghanedd, of no more than 250 lines, on the theme of “Adfeilion” or ruins.

The adjudicators were Ifor ap Glyn, Gwyneth Lewis and Siôn Aled.

The crown was designed and produced by Neil Rayment and Elan Rowlands.

The pair previously created the impressive crown for the Rhondda Cynon Taf Eisteddfod in 2024 – won by Gwynfor Dafydd for his series of poems on “Atgof” – or remembrance.

Head judge Ifor ap Glyn said: “Llif 2 opens with the simple couplet ‘When you forget / every day as you wake’ – and it discusses living with someone suffering from dementia, namely the poet’s mother.

“It’s a quiet and sensitive treatment of what must be done to help the mother continue to live with dignity as her memory deteriorates.

“The collection presents a tender picture of a difficult situation faced by so many families today, and we sense the depth of the poet’s feelings toward his mother and her former strength.”

Text: https://nation.cymru/culture/winner-of-wrecsam-national-eisteddfod-crown-announced/

See also: https://eisteddfod.wales

My Source: BBC Four Episode 1 - 15mins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002gwyq/eisteddfod-eisteddfod-2025-with-huw-stephens-episode-1

NHS 75 Years - Happy Birthday!

"Here's looking at you kid."

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Peter Jones 20 June, 2023, Warrington, UK	ELLIOT MCGUCKEN/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY
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- and in another 75 years!

My source: 'Night Vision A full moon is framed perfectly, creating the impression of a watchful presence behind the North Window desert rock formation in Arches National Park, Utah. ELLIOT MCGUCKEN/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY. The Times, 22nd June 2023, p.32.

(Photo source: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/23/photographer-captures-full-moon-that-looks-like-a-giant-eye/)

NHS75 image - https://twitter.com/NCFCareForum/status/1676478578693664770?s=20

Thanks for the memories . . .

. . . may they last your life time and then some . . .

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Peter Jones 20 June, 2023, Warrington, UK	self-storage (physical)

Photo: Peter Jones 20th June, 2023, Warrington, UK.

(other) for-getting(s)

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the marriage guidance counsellors were totally perplexed as couples seemingly ripped up their years-long, decade-long  'scripts'  there were no scraps to be waved either and pointed  @youthis! @youthat! the room for an argument disappeared. the dialogue and the future was suddenly bright a weapon of mass construction	within all governments long term planning 10, 20, 30... years took hold - the effects, no! the impacts: were local, global and glocal and this was just the beginning... tax was paid by all, whether individual or corporate entity, the only loops were off-world...

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Tiles, gates, gems and beds

 

Hansje van Halem

'On a tile just by the head of my bed, I have placed a list of the ancient gates. It looks like a gold ring, with gems set into it, each a different kind of stone'.






Part of: Memory Palace exhibition at V&A 

More to follow.

What really makes us human?

"Remembering is fundamentally recursive,
because it involves inserting a past mental state into the present one."

Michael Corballis, Essay: What really makes us human?, New Scientist, 1st September 2007 p.48-49.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526196-300-essay-what-really-makes-us-human/