Daily Archives: November 20, 2020

What I saw this morning ~ Alethea Kehas #poetry

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from The Light Behind the Story: Photo Cedit: Pixabay * I saw you in the moors today your hair wild like milkweed blown free with she who waits standing in the … Continue reading →

Solstice of the Moon: Fragments of History

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Outside the porch of the kirk at Fortingall stands an ancient font. Local legend states that Coeddi himself may have used it to baptise some of the first Christians in the area when the monks of Iona founded a sister … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure, Ancestors, Ancient sites, History, Photography, road trip, Sacred sites, Scotland, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, travel | Tagged Black Watch, celtic cross, Currie, Fortingall, mound of the dead, Plague Stone, Samhain, Yew | Leave a comment

The Alchemist: ‘A Violet Duke’?… Stuart France

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Architect in the guise of Thomas-the-Apostle. * If our Alchemist was pulling his beard, it would be because he and the grotesques surrounding him on the tower baulstrades of Notre-Dame, Paris, were not actually mediaeval statuary at all, but nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

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A song in the darkness…

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

“… It was like waking into a nightmare within a dream. I could feel sticky limbs attaching themselves to me all over, leeching the life from me. When I dared to open my eyes all I could see were these … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, fantasy, fiction, france and vincent, Photography | Tagged consciousness, landscape, Life, love, magic, Merlin, Sword of Destiny | Leave a comment

Thinking time

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

What is your criteria for a good book? Apart from wanting it to be well written and presented, what is it that you look for? Entertainment value? Information? Emotion, relaxation or a momentary escape from the humdrum round of daily … Continue reading →