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Bloguanuary 24: A Dream and a Pilgrimage
Ignoring the gruesome grammar (left) for it would be impossible to write about a dream I do not remember, I am today prompted to write about a dream. This is an account of a dream that sent me on a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Christian writing, Dreams, Dreams, Inspiration, spirituality
Tagged #bloganuary
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Bloganuary21: Time Travelling to 9/11
The idea of Bloganuary is to post a blog every day, in response to a prompt. Today, the prompt is asking me: if I could travel through time, which year would I choose to travel to and why. My immediate … Continue reading
COP26 : Why We Must Not Look At Goblin Men
As a gardener as well as an artist – and gardening for this artist means growing plants for food, for natural dyeing/eco printing and for the spirit – the 2021 gardening year has been notable for its length. The images … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Poetry, Quotes, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Christina Rossetti, Climate Crisis, COP26, Goblin Market, Poetry
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Eight Years Blogging – Writing Chaos into order from the Forest of Souls: Part I
Wisdom is the complete willingness to be the plaything of chance circumstances”. (Lao-Tse) I’ve been blogging for over eight years. The anniversary has come and gone. That’s a long time and a lot of words. I’ve been taking stock: what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Multimedia, spirituality
Tagged 12 Rules for Life, Chaos, Jordan B Peterson, Papier-mâché, The Spectator
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New Year’s Resolutions? I’ve Only Got the One: Clean Up My Room
I was painting the kitchen ceiling and in between brushstrokes came upon a newspaper article headed How Dangerous is Jordan B Peterson/The Right Wing Professor Who Hit a Hornets’ Nest? And I thought, “Who the hell is Jordan B Peterson?” … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, spirituality
Tagged Clean Up Your Room, Jordan B Peterson, Maps of Meaning, new year resolutions
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Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Blogging, Christian writing, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking, Science, spirituality, Walking, Walking Art, Writing
Tagged Automatic Writing, Bhagavad Gita, Byzance, Calligraphy, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Graph Theory, Krsna, Leonhard Euler, Mark Making, meditation, Mobius Strip, Monocondyle, Paul Klee, Poetic Mapping, Rust Printing, Rust Printing on Silk, Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, Stéphanie Devaux Textus, Tommy Wasserman, Tomography, Topology, Upanishads, Zen
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A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist
My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element, Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Opera, Science, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Birgit Nillson, Creed Cornwall, Eco Dyeing, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks and Titanium oxalate as a Mordant, King Mark, Klaproth, Liebestod, Phenolphthalein, Rod of Aaron, Saxon Invasion, St Crida, Staff of Moses, Titanium oxalate, Titanium oxalate as a mordant, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, William Gregor
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Be strong, even if it breaks your heart – Dr Who This resonated. I wondered for a brief moment how being strong would break the heart. Then thought: Sophie’s Choice. I reckon there comes a time we all have to … Continue reading
Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 