Tag Archives: spirituality

Guest post: Jerry E. Smith – Dirty Windows

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The struggle with the problems of life, daily steals our bliss, Seldom seeing farther than phone at the end of our arm. Our dramas revolve around the imagined theft of a kiss, Or the exaggerated events in the news, showing … Continue reading →

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Interpretations

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Sue Vincent

“ … the standard translation of one of the chief scriptures of China refers to the venerable Lao Tse as “the Old Boy”. This sounds comical to European ears, yet it is not so far removed from the words of … Continue reading →

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Container gardeners

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The sun rose this morning on a misty world, finding its way through scattered clouds. Although the air is chill, yet there is a feeling of spring burgeoning with determined inevitability in the hedgerows and fields.  Houses huddle together for … Continue reading →

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Doing what comes naturally

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

We were in Castleton, hunting for props for the Feathered Seer. It was a cold, grey morning, but even so, the warm stone of the small Derbyshire town was inviting. We wandered through the streets, exploring hidden streets that we … Continue reading →

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Magic #midnighthaiku

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Sue Vincent

…and oddly enough, this rainbow is falling right upon the place where the Silent Eye will be holding its magical weekend workshop in April… To find our more about The Feathered Seer and to reserve a place on the workshop, … Continue reading →

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Listen

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Sue Vincent

  Though your voice Is a world away My heart listens, Trusting a word Shared with my soul. I believe; Belonging to love As dreams belong to night And sweet promises to morning.

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Solstice of the Moon – a Silent Eye Event in Scotland

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Maiden, Mother, Crone Solstice of the Moon Inverurie, Scotland 15th-17th September 2017 The gently undulating and fertile landscape between the foothills of the Grampian Mountains and the North Sea proved an attractive place to settle for the early Neolithic peoples … Continue reading →

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Phantoms of the past…

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

When I met her, I thought her no more than a dream of the landscape, born of the mists and the magic. Imagination. Fantasy. Perhaps she is. Perhaps I delude myself with my listening. Perhaps my tears have fallen for … Continue reading →

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A painter’s palette

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The faded flower caught my eye as I was trimming the potted plants on the windowsill. The rich shades of its life and death were so striking they would make an amazing watercolour. Appropriate, really, as the flower was an … Continue reading →

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A bird in the bush?

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

The dog has just eaten her dinner for the first time in days. I have not been worried. There is a pattern to her behaviour that I perfectly understand…though precisely how she arrived at her conclusions escapes me. We had … Continue reading →

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