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As summer ends…the sea, glorious woods, and TWO Buddhas!
The sea, the sea…taken from the window of our train at Dawlish, en route to Totnes, Devon, UK. I love gazing out at horizons. A favourite memory is of sitting at a street cafe in the atmospheric...
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To change the world – start in your own back yard!
We don’t need astrologers to tell us we are living in a period of remarkable turbulence and change. The evidence is all around us: from our teetering and corrupt banking systems, to the declining...
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Books, books, glorious books…in praise of Indie Book Stores…
There we were, the 6’5″ nephew and myself, leaving Waterstone’s, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, UK last year without buying a book. What a triumph of willpower over two lots of biblio-addiction! And then...
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“I have known autumn too long”: e e cummings captures Autumn’s fleeting...
Today, feeling drifty and pleasantly melancholic as befits the season, I went looking for an apt quote to accompany my two autumn pictures, taken earlier this week on a glorious, cooling, sunlit...
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Hallowe’en drama: all fall down!
This spooky story is set towards the end of my restless twenties, a period where I earned my living as an adult education teacher. Here, I learn with my students that many an episode in this life of...
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‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ An upbeat ‘take’ on Descent into...
Having just returned from our annual visit to the misty, melancholy beauty of the Scottish Borders in late autumn, I am in reflective mood today. Despite the pattern of intermittent mildness and cold...
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“…to deal more kindly with one another…” A Big Picture perspective from the...
Like everyone else, I have been feeling crushed and deeply dispirited by the dreadful events in France last Friday, and now Mali today. I’ve also been feeling the need to post something on my blog by...
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Advent: “a winter training camp for those who desire peace…”
It is Advent. I can scarcely believe the speed with which this year has flown past. Neither can I quite believe – despite all the dimensions of our world which are still positive, creative and hopeful...
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Invincible summer – in the chill of winter….
All my life I have loved and been inspired by quotes. At this dark time of year approaching the solstice, as winter begins to grip, I thought I’d post a couple of special favourites: I hope you find...
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Poetic beauty at the Winter Solstice
We humans in the Northern Hemisphere, beset by darkness and cold, have from long antiquity needed light and celebration to lift our spirits in the bleak midwinter, no matter how much the grimness of...
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