Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Yes or no?

I have, over the years, come across a number of excellent articles on the value of learning to say ‘No’. And it is good advice. We bend over backwards, tie ourselves in knots and wear ourselves to shreds sometimes trying … Continue reading

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Child’s play?

She orders him around unmercifully while he looks at her with utter adoration in his eyes.  If ordering does not work, she brings out the secret weapon…the smile, the cheeky glance from beneath her eyelashes. Very seldom does she resort … Continue reading

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A spiritual wet kipper

You know those life-lessons that come out of the blue and slap you round the face with a wet kipper? I had one of those today… and it was right that I should do so. I firmly believe that we … Continue reading

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Facing Oblivion, Scroll Three

Greetings, high priestess Camma How humbled I was to receive your message, my love of so many years ago! We of the Roman army may think ourselves focussed and disciplined, but your simple message cuts me as would the blades … Continue reading

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One Lady Owner

There is a car parked outside the village shop, identical to my late, lamented Silver Bullet. Granted, the Green Goddess is in a considerably better state than her predecessor, but there are still twinges of nostalgia. The notice in the … Continue reading

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Gone…

Heather calls me, Open horizons beckon … Life is on hold. Intimate starscapes, Daybreaks and sunsets Await my presence. Yearnings fulfilled. The fish have a babysitter in place. Ani is with her friends. My bags are packed. I am heading … Continue reading

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The Unseen Sea – 4: Nine Steps to Knowing

Reblogged from The Silent Eye: Part Four of The Unseen Sea: adrift in the enneagram I am not equating LUCA’s enduring sense of self-protection with our own consciousness as a living, brain-possessing being, with all its complexity of feeling, thought … Continue reading

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Green grow the rushes O… from Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France… The Grand-Father Clock, tock…tock…tocked reassuringly in the corner of the oak panelled study. Through the window to one side the ancient time piece’s Big Brother could be discerned dominating the metropolitan sky-line… Tee, was wilfully oblivious … Continue reading

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Philology by Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France: * The Camel Mind * * bound, it wanders… Continue reading at Philology

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Where the stones whisper…

Reblogged from The Silent Eye:   “They say the stones sleep. That they are old and forgotten… voiceless. Is it so, little sister? Are they silent…or do they dream, the long, slow dreaming of aeons. They were old when they … Continue reading

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