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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
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Bloganuary 22: The Impossible Finch and The Machines
A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. … Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T S Spivet I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging
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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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11th WordPress Blogging Anniversary
That quote defines why I write. When I started to write this blog, I didn’t know that was why I write. It whets my appetite for mapping to have two (or more) seemingly disparate events occur and to know – … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Writing
Tagged Blogging, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T S Spivet, Writing
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A Return to Painting
The above image marks a surprise return to painting after a good number of years during which I painted only sporadically and without much success. Life and all that. An email arrived earlier this year, out-of-the-blue, inviting me onto a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging, Choral singing, Painting, Singing, Singing Sacred, Writing
Tagged Acrylic Painting, Eco Printing, L'Isle-Adam, Messa Di Gloria, Nettle, Puccini
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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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On the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice: Shanks, E., 100 Years Dead, Not Forgotten
‘O lad that I loved, there is rain on your face, And your eyes are blurred, and sick with the plain.’ – Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): I Stood with the Dead (June 1918) My maternal grandfather’s younger brother Edwin was killed … Continue reading
Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
Dear Westminster City Council Planning Department, After a fight, a statue of Dame Millicent Fawcett, suffragist, was erected earlier this year in Parliament Square, the first statue of a woman ever to be placed there. This, together with the statue … Continue reading
Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 