Tag Archives: birth

On the eve of Beltane…

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It is Beltane Eve and, every year, the same few things come back to me… There is the battle between the Winter King and the Summer King that I loved as a child, from William Croft Dickinson’s Borrobil, the number … Continue reading →

Posted in family, Humour, Memories, Motherhood | Tagged birth, birthday, pregnancy, premature | 27 Comments

Afghan Adventures ~ Mary Smith #13 #Babies

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from MarySmith’sPlace: Although Hussain didn’t encourage house visits he could never bring himself to refuse, even though experience was teaching him the messenger’s ‘emergency’ was probably nothing worse than an indigestion attack. But there was always the fear that … Continue reading →

Posted in reblog | Tagged Afghanistan, birth, Deliveries, health, obstetrics, Photography, travel | 2 Comments

Facing Fear With The Silent Eye, Part 4 – Life and Death ~ Helen Jones

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Helen Jones continues the tale of her weekend with The Silent Eye in Derbyshire… I recently attended a workshop with The Silent Eye about Facing Our Fears, an extraordinary weekend spent among the hills and grey stone villages of the … Continue reading →

Posted in reblog, The Silent Eye | Tagged ancient spring, birth, carving, Cathedral of the Peak, celebration, church, death, eagle stone, flying fox, green man, history, Life, Moors, Natural History Museum, Peak District, salamander, stained glass, Tideswell, tradition | Leave a comment

Elusive realities and strange encounters: Will you share your story..?

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Sue Vincent

This post also exists as a ‘page’ in the menu, but as so many people now read on devices where the menu headings are not immediately visible, I thought it might be an idea to share it again here… there … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, Elusive realities, Life | Tagged alternative realities, birth, death, family, ghosts, loved ones, paranormal, psychism, supernatural, telepathy | 33 Comments

The ultimate robbery?

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It was going to be one of those conversations… “… So what do you think happens then?” “Nothing… non-existence.” “So what is there to fear in that?” “Well, I’ll stop existing!” he said, as if that should explain it. “But … Continue reading →

Posted in The Silent Eye | Tagged birth, consciousness, death, dissolution, fear, Life, spirituality, survival of the soul | 2 Comments

#Schadenfreude! ~ Barb Taub…Who knew grandparenting would be so much fun? #humor #parenting

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continue reading at Barb Taub: “I’m worried about them.” My daughter was visiting her sister, who had just delivered her second child. “I don’t think any of them slept for more than an hour the whole time I was there.” … Continue reading →

Posted in reblog | Tagged birth, grandparents, Humor, parenting, sleep | 5 Comments

The Slave Girl ~ A Heart for Africa #writephoto

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

She watched them, filled with revulsion. They were like two animals in heat–her husband and that wretched slave girl. If she had a rifle she would blow them to smithereens but being a Christian woman, it wouldn’t do for her … Continue reading →

Posted in photo prompt, Photography | Tagged africa, Animals, birth, black man, child, children, Christian, delivery, house slaves, humiliation, illegitimate children, law school, married, miscarriages, mistress, offspring, plantation, relations, remarried, shame, slave girl, slave women, stillbirth, Virginia, white man, wife, will, witch, witchcraft, woman, woods | 1 Comment

Be my guest…

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Have a story to share? A book to promote? Need more exposure? Why not be my guest? Would you like to write a guest post and be featured on this blog?If you are a writer, artist or photographer…If you have … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest post | Tagged alternative realities, art, birth, blogging, Book launch, book promotion, Books, death, family, fantasy, fiction, Folk Tale, free author promotion, ghosts, loved ones, paranormal, Photography, Poetry, psychism, supernatural, telepathy, writing | 27 Comments

Brood #midnighthaiku

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Mam Tor, which means ‘mother hill’, is surrounded by her children, where the underlying layers of shale have caused landslips to form smaller hills at her base. The instability of the hill gave her the name of ‘shivering mountain’. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Poetry | Tagged birth, Derbyshire, haiku, Mam tor, Spring, winter | 8 Comments

The door’s always open…

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Would you like to write a guest post and be featured on this blog? If you are a writer, artist or photographer… If you have a poem, story or memoirs to share… If you have a book to promote, a … Continue reading →