Tag Archives: being

Breathe

I dream Wild things playing Fleet clouds chasing heat haze Wildflower meadows clothed in light Wonder   At peace Unconcerned by life’s mysteries Free as a butterfly Soul feather-light Just breathe Mirror Cinquain for Colleen’s poetry challenge

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Spreading wings

The hill was a verdant emerald rising into a sapphire sky that sparkled with motes of light… so high and clear. My companion walked behind, following at a far more sedate pace as I ran headlong to the summit, an … Continue reading

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Graven Image… Stuart France

* ‘ … And look! A man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold… His body also was like beryl and his face had the appearance of lightning. His eyes were as lamps of fire, and his … Continue reading

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Curiosities… Stuart France

St Michael’s victory over the Devil – Sculptor, Jacob Epstein * The French occultist, Eliphas Levi, the German philosopher Franz von Baader, and the Theurgist, Louis Claude de St. Martin spoke of 1879 as the year in which Michael overcame … Continue reading

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Blinded by the Light…

* … So, we return to the quest. And turn shining eyes to the south. Not that we ever left it, yet the churches had definitely ‘fallen off-line’… Until Skipton. Until one particular stained-glass window in Skipton. It is tempting … Continue reading

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Golden

There is a place on dawn’s horizon Where the heart breathes In the gold of morning Drinking sunlight in the dew. An unknown land, A journey of becoming, Beyond the world, Beyond eternity, Where time rules nothing And a hundred … Continue reading

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You are loved

Three words felt, not spoken, Known only in the inmost heart That change the world And how you see it. It doesn’t matter who Or how, or where. Time and distance have no meaning, When you Know it. Nor do … Continue reading

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The way home

From the archives: We had set off for Dorset the day before… way back in 2013… and had inexplicably ended up in Glastonbury. There was, after all, only one way we would choose to go home from there… and that … Continue reading

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Sidetracked

  From the archives: What was supposed to be a quick, two day ‘raid’ on Dorset, back in 2013, somehow expanded, as our travels seem to do, to include a few other places… like Somerset. And eventually, Wiltshire… Sitting on … Continue reading

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More high places

From the archives: The second day of our flying visit to Dorset in 2013… I would not want you to think we had been having a good time. No. Would we? Manfully (or, perhaps, hobbitfully in my case), we have … Continue reading

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