Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Cold coffee

  Gulping down the coffee I realise, with screwed up face, that it went cold again. Time, that intractable and elusive plaything, got away from me. Where does it go? I’ve been up and working since six am, as usual. … Continue reading

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Blood Wedding

A very long time ago, while I was living in France, my boss and her sister in law, knowing I loved dance, took me to the cinema to see Bodas de Sangre… Blood Wedding. I have to admit I was … Continue reading

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Notes from a small dog VIII

I made her laugh out loud today. I try my best. I am a bit of a clown sometimes. But she had a headache and didn’t look too good again, so I pulled all the stops out for her. Apart … Continue reading

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Being random

I sit on the floor with my back against the door frame chatting away to my son and itching for a pen. I don’t have one to hand. The voice recorder, obviously, is in the other handbag… it always is. … Continue reading

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Notes from a small dog VI

I am sorry. I have to report that she has failed abysmally in her duties as my deity this weekend. No walks, not a one. Not even in the snow. OK, she did let me play out in the stuff … Continue reading

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Stuffing Nemo

It wasn’t forecast snow today, so I regarded the heavy white flakes falling doggedly to earth as simply adding insult to injury as I faced the morning without my customary coffee. Not so much ‘out of coffee’ as ‘not allowed’. … Continue reading

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Don’t Panic

There are books one refers back to again and again through life, stories that get under the skin in some way or another, touch a nerve, move the heart or feed the soul. It is perhaps no coincidence that many … Continue reading

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Possum ergo facit – I can therefore I do.

Today, as I watched my son walk a few steps unsupported down the hallway of the home in which he lives independently, preparing to walk his bride to be down the aisle in a few months’ time, I was struck … Continue reading

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First Workshop?

With the Silent Eye’s launch weekend coming up in April, a point was made that these things can be daunting for anyone who has never attended an esoteric workshop and who may have absolutely no idea what to expect.  So … Continue reading

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Refuse to Lose

I have just witnessed a miracle. And no, that is not a melodramatic statement. Simply true. I just watched my son walk again. Unsupported. For the first time in three and a half years. Five steps. Yes it has already … Continue reading

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