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Welcome to the web page of Tony and Barbara Holden, We hope you will explore it. We enjoy having the opportunity to share our passions and thoughts with those who are interested. Do read on.

comment, poems, books, art

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Welcome to a site by Tony and Barbara Holden.

2020-2021 have been difficult years for many of us. For 2022 we have redesigned the site. We hope you enjoy it and commend it to others. If you wish to use any of our work please cite us at www.tonyandbarbaraholden.com

Current blog - see below

Poems – I did so enjoy the running and Selected Poems

Drawing - Five drawings “Without going outside"

Comment and community – Celtic Sprirituality

About us – if you are new to the website check us out here

New song from Adam Holden Christmas is the time

Tony Holden

Oct 17, 2022
1 min

When

* When - to stand tall and bear our witness That we humans [whichever the tribal name] Live as one species, * When - to begin and then...

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Tony Holden

Sep 12, 2022
1 min

‘Geese and bottles’

We often watch TV documentaries where experts comment on some visual object. It’s not as easy to show people communicating their...

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Tony Holden

Aug 4, 2022
1 min

Holiday photos

Some words refer to extremely important human experiences: families, meeting and relationships, identity and self. So, living on holiday...

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Tony Holden

Jul 5, 2022
1 min

Sometimes

Sometimes when hurt and loss and anxieties come at you “thick and fast” – you hear those long-remembered voices of despair [“not to be...

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Tony Holden

Jun 10, 2022
1 min

Being creative and saying your prayers

Most people enjoy being creative. We know full-well that being creative contributes to us remaining happy and balanced. I notice in many...

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Tony Holden

Apr 29, 2022
1 min

60 years of writing and living

World first! We’ve put Tony’s ‘Selected Poems’ on the website. It’s astonishing [and slightly scary] to see 60 years of writing and...

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Tony Holden

Apr 13, 2022
1 min

Springtime reading - Tony and Barbara Holden

Do you read much? Well, road-signs or our Sat-Nav. Well, social media and world news. And books? Well, e-books. But it all needs being...

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Tony Holden

Apr 3, 2022
1 min

Lifelong

I’ve been working at 60 years-worth of poems, trying to edit a collected version and a selected version – watch this space as they say!...

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Tony Holden

Mar 1, 2022
1 min

Happy St David's Day

Barbara says: “Happy St. David’s Day” and recalls the story of St David saying: “Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that...

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Tony Holden

Feb 7, 2022
1 min

Understanding ourselves well enough

[1] I imagine that our favourite activities include things like family, travel, IT and media, gardening, singing, sport, making things....

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Tony Holden

Jan 16, 2022
1 min

Words and images

A friend said to me in an email: “It’s wonderful you find the energy to keep up this poetry alongside your art.” Well, I’ve been writing...

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Tony Holden

Jan 2, 2022
1 min

New Year

New Year greetings from both of us [Tony and Barbara] - We all know change and continuity from birth. The New Year offers us a sort of...

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Tony Holden

Dec 13, 2021
1 min

New for Christmas

Falling in love with books: in whatever form we read them!’ I’m doing some re-reading [again!]. It caused me to think about what I recall...

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Tony Holden

Nov 15, 2021
1 min

Time together

Here we are a few days before our twin's birthday - son Adam, Tony and Barbara, daughter Sian.

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Tony Holden

Oct 24, 2021
1 min

Changed lives

I realize how much life has changed for so many people since covid restrictions have changed. Maybe that explains why our modest blog...

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Tony Holden

Oct 1, 2021
1 min

Belonging

In our shifting, changing, demanding world we often wonder how to go about choosing which groups and communities we wish to join and be...

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Tony Holden

Sep 12, 2021
1 min

What do you want to do today?

[1] We continue to live through difficult times. Unsurprisingly they put serious pressures on our responsibilities and freedoms. At a...

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Tony Holden

Aug 18, 2021
1 min

Meaning

If I combine words with one of my drawings then [unsurprisingly given my life-long writing] any ongoing commentary I make fixes on the...

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Tony Holden

Jul 9, 2021
1 min

Exercising your self

There’s a lot of advice about how to exercise and stay healthy – physical, mental, intellectual, spiritual. Every now and then [as an...

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Tony Holden

Jun 27, 2021
1 min

Be bold - choose your words carefully

The theme of the current national Methodist Church magazine is ‘Be Bold’ {1}. I am delighted to read in it that a black woman is to be...

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Tony's art 2018

Tony's art 2018

Tony's art 2018

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