Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Some of them… Stuart France

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* I had half expected the town to be deserted. That is Memory again. It acts like  some indifferent film director moving extras around, concerned only with their ebb and flow. Over time the ‘peripherals’ fade leaving only the ‘principals’ … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: Sidetracked by Poppies…

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sue Vincent

We had arrived in the north, checked in at our accommodation, and, after a coffee, as we still had a couple of hours to spare before we were all to meet, we decided to stretch our legs and explore a … Continue reading →

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The Art of Drowning ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Sue Vincent

I’ve drowned before… Drowning comes in the form of waves. Eventually, when your ability to fight back has gone, even the smallest wave can make the difference and take you beneath the surface to a place of the unknown, and … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: September 2018

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Why do we always seem to head north in dodgy weather? It was in January 2015 that Stuart and I had set off Discovering Albion on a fabulous journey through the landscape. On the way home, we had chosen to … Continue reading →

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Get This…

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* It matters Not a jot What one has Or has not got. * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Standing out…

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Sue Vincent

I was researching someone online and came across a so-called motivational site urging young people to get up and do something… to make something of themselves… to stand out from the crowd or risk sinking into obscurity… fate that appeared … Continue reading →

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Acts of rebellion…

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Yesterday, I was looking through my photo files in search of a particular shot amongst the tens of thousands of files stored on my various drives. Most of those photographs document our journeys through the landscape, visits to sacred places … Continue reading →

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Shadow Play…

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Shadowing’ is our term for the phenomenon whereby a standing stone, or group of stones, recreates a distant landscape feature and thereby renders it immediately apparent or tangible. Most other megalithic writers on the subject have also, independently, recognised … Continue reading →

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The Big Picture (2) : a portrait of the arche ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Sue Vincent

If we’re going to set off in search of the spiritual – as seen in humanity’s ‘internal pictures’, we need to have a more modern definition of what the ‘spiritual’ actually is… Imagine we are reading a paragraph in an … Continue reading →

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Doors of Conception…

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Sue Vincent

“Excuse me…” I woke up and looked at the walking stick  insistently tapping my boot, then up at the black face in the sun, and shaded my eyes… “…Do you want to be human?” The voice was young, but also … Continue reading →

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