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Happy New Year – Bring it On 2018
Posted in Ecology, Inspiration, spirituality
Tagged Amazon Forest, Avaaz, Clean Energy, love, Masai, Me Too, Murdoch Mafia, Paris Climate Deal, Racist Travel Banb, Too, Trump
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Walking with Shalott by the Light of Tabor, Noor, Nirvana, Ner Tamid, Diwali: A Response to Terrorists
Drawing-in the Withdrawn – Drawing in Meta-Meaning Mode led me to – a different approach entirely. It happens. Still, there is a connection, in that I am yet again drawn; drawn to let recent work inform me of my onward … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Book of Proverbs, Buddhism, Diwali, Gyatso, Hinduism, Isa, Judaism, Karma, Light, love, Marium, Ner Tamid, Nirvana, Noor, Old Testament, St John Chrysostom, Tennyson, Terrorism, The Lady of Shalot, The Light of Tabor, Tora, Transfiguration, Venianim
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Flint & Feather Resurrected
Above the laptop is a packet of radish seeds. A ball of string.
Adjustable spanner.
Two staplers.
Secateurs. Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Inspiration, Photography
Tagged Allotmenteering, Beans, Cabbages, Chives, fiction writing, golden courgette, Growing Veggies, love, nasturtium, novel writing, Round Green Courgette, seeds, Sorrel, Squash
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Walking into Love, a Sonnet: The Loving Quark
The Loving Quark
Said Einstein, “into nature look, look deep
and better all things will you understand.”
To look into the heart – the seat
of love – he was, it seemed, imploring man. Continue reading
Posted in Christian writing, spirituality, Walking, Writing
Tagged atom, Christian Writing, Einstein, love, molecule, Petrarch, Poetry, Poetry Writing, quark, Shakespeare, sonnet, Spiritual, Walks, Writing
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Another Quote to Encourage Creatives: Rumi
As my broken shoulder mends (and the rate is ‘amazing’ and ‘astonishing’ to my consultant and physio respectively) and I am able to do more and more with my left hand and arm. (I’m a leftie, so it’s quite important!) I’m bit by bit picking up my creative threads. Spiritually and mentally, there are some exciting developments brewing.
Nonetheless, I’ve been feeling down in the dumps about my creative hiatus. My hands fell this morning on a little book I have* of extracts from the love poems of Rumi, described on the cover as, “The great Sufi saint who embraced God through the path of love.” I opened it upon words which resonated strongly with my present state of spirit – and body. Continue reading
Posted in Christian writing, Inspiration, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Book Reviews, Christian Writing, Christianity, Consciousness, Contemplation, Inspirational Poetry, Inspirational quotes, Jesus, love, Rumi, Silence, Spiritual, Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Poetry, spirituality, Sufism, Theme
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