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Jewels in the Claw (4) – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continued from Part Three. The line of packing cases is nearly complete. The man looks down at the three chairs in the East, one white, one purple and one red. The symbolism of the outer two was plain: the Tudor … Continue reading →

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Jewels in the Claw (III) – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continued from Part Two The man with the packing case pauses as he passes the place that was the East, the place from which the Queen began her direction of proceedings in this, her favourite palace of Nonsuch, in 1590’s … Continue reading →

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Rings of Earth and Sky – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

To find that time and circumstance Had placed us in an isle of fertile space Where others led us to a place A ring wherein the sky and earth would quarter meet There is no sense of wonder deeper Than … Continue reading →

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Jewels in the Claw (ii) – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Continued from Part One He stops in the act of dismantling – the raven directly in line with his left eye. Reluctantly, he climbs onto the chair to unhook the left panel of rubberised black fabric that contains the bird’s … Continue reading →

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Jewels in the Claw (1) – Steve Tanham

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

There is a moment when he stops, puts down his packing box, and looks at what remains of the Court Floor. It is the last vestige of a creative journey of twelve months, of twenty souls intent on giving their … Continue reading →

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The Opened Palm – Steve Tanham

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“I only know how to ask…” Probably the last thing she said to me, so many years ago. Age took her, then. But the memory of the touch of her mind and heart is a wonderful one. So gentle, so … Continue reading →

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The Magical Roundabout – Steve Tanham

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

I remember the moment, a few years ago, when Stuart – one of my co-directors of the Silent Eye – said to me: “And that’s it, vanished in an instant: all that work about to be packed up, filed away … Continue reading →

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A Candle in the Mind – Steve Tanham

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Sue Vincent

If we wish to make a voyage into the self, we need a set of tools, with which to: a) Investigate, as objectively as possible, what this ‘me’ is doing. b) Create a space; a different part of us, that … Continue reading →

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Dwellers in Towers – Steve Tanham

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Sue Vincent

A recent trip to the beautiful Northumbrian coast threw up a chance visit to Preston Tower, one of a type known as a ‘Pele Tower’ – a fortified place of refuge for well-to-do families, built during the times of the … Continue reading →

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Of One Mind? – Steve Tanham

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

To be of ‘one mind’: it’s an expression we don’t hear a lot of, nowadays, though it remains available to us in the language. Historically, it was used to describe an intensity of opinion, or – even stronger – belief, … Continue reading →

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