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Trial by Fire and Water… Stuart France

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* It was five years ago that we last attended and actually got to see the  Fire Festival. On that day too the rain had poured steadily all day and many a lake-like puddle lay in wait for us on … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage: Seeing beyond fear

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Sue Vincent

A weekend with the Silent Eye Derbyshire, UK Friday 13th – Sunday 15th September 2019 We are all afraid of something. There are the fears of the everyday world, from arachnophobia to a fear of the dark, and the deeper … Continue reading →

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The Celebration of Mister Fox: more and less… Stuart France

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* …More, because our Foxes are one-third Man And also less, because our Foxes are one-third Man. Huh? Man’s individuality makes them more yet, By its very nature, That individuality has to be less than whole. * Continue reading at … Continue reading →

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The Celebration of Mister Fox: bestial cluster… Stuart France

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Bear and Wolf, And Dog and Fox are all closely related. It is tempting to imagine a common ancestor; Bigger than Wolf but smaller than Bear. * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Guest Author: Jean Lee ~ My Wisconsin … and a new book!

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Look out there. Beyond all the houses, with their paved streets and sour tangerine light. Beyond all that. Go into the dark, where streams appear and vanish with every thunderstorm. Where crickets and cicadas sing until the sun’s first light … Continue reading →

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The Celebration of Mister Fox…

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* I never knew Holmfirth in the days of mill workers and clogs. I really got to know her in the Post Industrial gloom, Of swish Cafe Bars, And cosy restaurants, All day drinking parties frequented by the nouveau riche… … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Stone: monkish mead…

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* “Sea-mist,” repeated Kieron, thirteen-hundred years before those words were uttered. “Dragon’s Breath,” snorted Bark Jaw-Dark into the dancing particles of icy-air which swirled about his head, “And I’ve never know a world be the same once it’s raised.” “There’s … Continue reading →

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Annus Tumulus – Tomb of the Year… Stuart France

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Sue Vincent

‘Well almost…quite loosely speaking.’ ‘Very loosely speaking.’ ‘And no, it’s not a new quiz show. And nor are there any prizes. A tumulus is an artificial mound.’ ‘And a natural mound is what?’ ‘One that isn’t man made.’ ‘Has it … Continue reading →

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Philology… Stuart France

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The Camel Mind * * bound, it wanders… * * let loose, it remains.  Reblogged from Stuart France

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Songs of the Stone: parchment…

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Big-Earth… Little-Earth… Bigger-Earth: Earth-Man-Stars. * …On its reverse is scrawled in an uneven hand: “To regain, ‘The Raid’,”… “Seek out the Nine Chief Culdees of Erinn. Then journey with them to the Ogham Stone of Fergus Mc Roy, Continue … Continue reading →

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