Category Archives: Spirituality

Learning to teach

Re-shared from The Silent Eye The two most beautiful women I know are Teachers. I use the upper case ‘T’ quite deliberately as they teach simply by Being who they are. One, on her own admission prefers to work from … Continue reading

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The spirit of the dog

I recently mentioned a labradoodle named Fionn who has just been diagnosed with Addison’s disease. His human half is  Morgana West, affectionately known as Morgy… a Yorkshire lass in Glastonbury… she has written a superb article on how the love … Continue reading

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Veil

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The lamb

We walked up the hill before the dawn, a silent procession through the sleeping village. Cloaked figures led the way to the gate. No-one spoke, none broke a silence kept in vigil. Until the lamb looked at us and greeted … Continue reading

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…. And relax. Or perhaps not…

So another weekend in the north passed quietly, mainly as rain stopped play for most of the time I was there. Not, of course, that it is any less beautiful. It simply meant that instead of tramping the moors, getting … Continue reading

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Trusting life

Looking through old poems and writing I am struck by how much the sense of longing pervades them.  A sense of yearning. Yet, when I think about it, look at the dates, I realise that many of these pieces were … Continue reading

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Asking questions…

“The Silent Eye- a modern Mystery School”… All very well, of course, but that probably raises more questions than it answers, so we thought we would answer some of the ones we get most frequently. The polite ones at least… … Continue reading

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New Knickers

Gentlemen, you may wish to look away now. Be warned. Consider it a ‘spoiler alert’ … Ladies, I have a hankering for new knickers. In fact, you could say I have a need for them. Gone are the days when … Continue reading

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Dancers

Ronovan’s haiku challenge.

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A lesson on wings

The taxi was going to be late. No bus, still no car. I need to be elsewhere and I’m stuck. Could have stayed in bed a bit longer…Didn’t have to get up before dawn… but the cold had woken me, … Continue reading

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