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Out walking around the town I came upon this old farm on the Wheatsheaf Road. I have passed it hundreds of times on foot and in the car. Its bones still standing against the wind. I stopped, hair tossed by the early Autumn winds, and thought that old thought “if only these walls could talk”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What stories they would tell, of love and laughter, of worry and weather, of sick animals and faithful dogs curled by the stove in a kitchen where the fire never died. The kitchen, heart of <\/a>a house where a mammy once held the waking world close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now only silence keeps them company. The fields are greener for the rain, the hills cradle the ruin gently, and time moves on, slow, steady, forgiving nothing, forgetting nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a melancholy beauty here, the stillness of abandonment, the weight of memory, the echo of lives once hard-lived, once loved, I walked on, down the road to nowhere getting closer to my own kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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