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Citadel of the Sun II… Stuart France

* … We had been at the mercy of the tides before. At Lindisfarne we were stranded on the ‘island’ for eight hours. This time we were ‘stranded’ on the mainland… There is something about causewayed isles that speaks to … Continue reading

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Citadel of the Sun… Stuart France

* ‘There is a certain atmosphere about the place, an echo of a life that is hidden deep in the recesses of the mind.’ * “Brown Sign!” The Green Goddess lurched violently as she swung around the almost impossible corner, … Continue reading

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‘A very special place’… Stuart France

* The Eskimo has over fifty words for snow… * Carn les Boel, is marked on the map as a hill-fort but it is very different from the two ‘hill-forts’ we had just encountered on our Workshop… It is difficult … Continue reading

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Traced by Angels… Stuart France

* ‘Of wheel-tracks there were none just strange, narrow paths across the moorland.’ * * With the dust well settled over the Living Land Workshop, and already two days into our vacation, we found ourselves in search of a map. … Continue reading

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Mists #midnighthaiku

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Winter with the Silent Eye…

Full Circle? – Finding the way home… Penrith, Cumbria Friday 7th – Sunday 9th December, 2018 Home. It is an evocative word. The images it conjures are different for each of us, yet few other words touch heart and mind … Continue reading

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A Day’s walk?… Stuart France

* …”The why, is always the same.” “In order to connect, or to make whole?” “And in order to then participate in that wholeness.” “Which is connection.” “They call Glastonbury England’s ‘holiest erthe’.” Continue reading Stuart France

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Something fishy in Preseli… Stuart France

‘Pentre-Ifan’ * ‘I know we’re not in England but it doesn’t even feel like we’re in Britain!” We were in Nevern churchyard in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on one of the Silent Eye’s Workshops… And a familiar feeling was creeping over us… … Continue reading

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Wandering #midnighthaiku

Silent pathways call The land has stories to tell Adventure awaits  

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Something fishy in Glastonbury… Stuart France

* ‘It doesn’t feel like we’re in England. It feels like we’re in France or something.’ No idea why France in particular except, perhaps, that my memories of that country shimmer with light and heat, and the sun was beating … Continue reading

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