Monthly Archives: September 2020

Escape from Tomorrow ~ Machu Picchu

Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy:
Falling back into the past is easier these days. I close my eyes, search a memory and watch possibilities swim around in my mind. There is a sense of freedom with this…

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Field of dreams..?

Long, long ago, when the world was still young and I was younger still, I moved into a house with a garden. It wasn’t much of a garden, long-deserted, overgrown and gone to seed, but my mind painted it in … Continue reading

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Seductress #midnighthaiku

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Going West: Getting Lost

Our little convoy left the ancient site playing follow-the-leader on the narrow roads. The car in front of me had instructions, in case we lost the lead car, on how to get to the car park for a quick comfort … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: Heaven ‘n’ Earth…

Dear Wen, ‘An older tradition’ is always a good place to start, and ‘ponder’ certainly has a watery aspect to it, though ‘charming the mind’ should, perhaps, be enchanting the mind… It is clear that the ancients had a far … Continue reading

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Keeping a Promise to a Dragon and a Stone: Part 1

Originally posted on The Light Behind the Story:
We left at 9:30am. Three women, piling into my little blue car to fulfill a promise I had made with a dragon. And a stone. We had everything we needed, or so…

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Onwards #midnighthaiku

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Going West: Carreg Coetan Arthur

This was the third dolmen we had visited in three days whose name tied it to the legendary King Arthur… and three times three is a magical number. It is certainly a magical site and quite unexpected as you walk … Continue reading

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Dear Don: Old Moore’s…

Dear Don, I suppose it was a case of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ on a grand scale… which almost always leads to going with ‘bigger and better’…or at least a mistaken perception of it… I thought you might have … Continue reading

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Two journeys, one destination (2) – Inverness

Steve continues the story of the recent weekend in Scotland… The Silent Eye It begins in Inverness, that beautiful confluence of water, road and mountain. Like any journey through northern Scotland, it will be dominated by water… The year 2020 … Continue reading

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