Category Archives: earth

A Magical Walk – Alethea Kehas

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Stuart France

I’ve come to the conclusion the best magic is that which arises unbeckoned and fills the soul with joy. During a family trip to California over the Thanksgiving holiday week, I had the pleasure of encountering this type of magic … Continue reading →

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‘Gunner-a-Gonna’?…

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Stuart France

Michael Gunner defends his ‘Gold-Standard Gulag’…

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Magical mornings

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Sue Vincent

It was a luminous dawn, the world blanketed in a thick cocoon of frost against the darkness and silence of a newborn morning. The sun rose, pale and gold, strewing a million diamonds on the tarmac path; setting a fire … Continue reading →

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Watching

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Sue Vincent

For the past few days there has been a young heron beside the road on the five mile drive to my son’s home. It stands, arrow thin, shadow blue and perfectly still, almost invisible, watching the drainage ditch that runs … Continue reading →

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Carved hills

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Sue Vincent

One of the most striking things you can see as you drive through the English countryside is the great white shape of a hill figure cut into the landscape. There are many to see, at least fifty known figures, ranging … Continue reading →

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A Land of Living Light

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Every morning, the first thing I do is open my bedroom curtains to take a glance at the day. I rise early, usually before dawn at this time of year. When clouds obscure the horizon, all I can see is … Continue reading →

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The eye of the sun

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Three weeks before the Full Circle workshop, Stuart and I had headed north to Cumbria on our ‘recce’ trip. Stuart had been ill for a couple of weeks and shouldn’t really have been going anywhere. But you can’t run a … Continue reading →

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Garden of Extinction reblogged from champagnewhisky

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from champagnewhisky… “Any species, now matter how unusual or common, is vulnerable…”: Of all the areas of the stunning Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa – and all the areas are stunning – one in particular … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Annabelle Franklin – Do we really need to leave Earth?

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Recently, BBC2 showed a programme called The Search for a New Earth. It featured physicist Stephen Hawking, who claimed we will have to leave Earth within the next 100 years as it will have become uninhabitable. He listed various possible … Continue reading →

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Marking the Circle – Solstice of the Moon with Running Elk

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

While we continue to share tales of the Silent Eye’s summer weekend in Wales, The Prisoner of Portmeirion, we would like to invite you to join us in Scotland in September, for a Living Land workshop amongst the sacred circles of … Continue reading →

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