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The Cursed Crow – Anurag Bakhshi #writephoto

The crow sat on the thin, dry branch, lonely, morose, listless, waiting For the pain to subside, for someone to see him for who he was, without hating Every day he would sit at the same spot, from dawn till … Continue reading

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Creation – Stuart France

* In Mesopotamian mythology a Mother Goddess, with the assistance of a God of Wisdom, created men out of clay, mixed with the blood of a slain God. The Primeval male and female human beings were not allotted a life-span. … Continue reading

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Deluge!… Stuart France

* Various stories relating a catastrophic flood are told by classical authors. These flood stories may derive from a single Mesopotamian original used in travellers tales for over two thousand years along the great caravan routes of Western Asia. In … Continue reading

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Lady of the Flame: Hail Mighty Sekhmet! – Jan Malique

She is known by many epithets, in particular Eye of Ra, Lady of the Red Linen, and Lady of the Flame. Protector of the Pharaoh and scourge of humankind when we acted out like disobedient children. The Lion Goddess Sekhmet … Continue reading

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The Incomparable Comper III… Stuart France

* … “The Veronica?” “It is one of the ‘Stations of the Cross’. One of Christ’s female adherents approaches her Lord and wipes the sweat from his face as he struggles to Calvary under the back breaking load of the … Continue reading

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The Incomparable Comper II… Stuart France

* … “And for a long time that is all we had.” “That, and the Green light of the Lady Chapel.” “That, and the Gold-Green light of the Lady Chapel.” “And, when that is all you’ve got you tend to … Continue reading

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Curse of the Hay-Collar III … Stuart France

* Now, that night at meat was an uncomfortable one for the Lord of Dyved, for his companions found sport in ribbing him about the day’s proceedings upon the Fair-Mound of Arbeth. “So, was it blows and wounds or were … Continue reading

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Wish you were here?

We regularly share the stories of our workshop weekends on these pages. What is impossible to share on these pages is the sense of warmth, the laughter and the camaraderie that attends these weekends. Those who come along are not … Continue reading

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Curse of the Hay-Collar II … Stuart France

* So the Lord of Dyved climbed the Fair-Mound of Arbeth and the seven chieftains of Dyved climbed with him…  As they sat in counsel on the top of the Fair-Mound, they saw a woman, wearing gold brocade, riding by, … Continue reading

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The Schrödinger effect – Top 10 Sites 2017

A blog is designed to be read… and until it is, the words are no more than words; they take flight in the imagination or the writer, but once on the page, they remain silent until awakened by a reader. … Continue reading

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