No Fear – A Spell Posted on 19 November 202319 November 2023 Reading time is approx. 5 – 8 minutes. ‘No Fear – A Spell’ is adapted from my post on Instagram. No Fear – If letters make up words, and they are used to spell, and songs are made of words, are songs used to cast spells? “I will NOT live… Read more
Choose the News Posted on 22 August 202230 August 2022 “A handful of us determine what will be on the…news broadcasts, or for that matter, the [newspapers]… Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power…we must decide which news items, out of hundreds available, we are going to expose that day. And those [news stories] available to… Read more
Heeding the Call Posted on 17 January 202223 July 2022 Updated 23 July 2022 – Original 17 January 2022 Out and about, between waves of salt and snow, I heeded the call to let it all go. Despite appearances, nothing comfortable, synthetic or artificial can ever actually fulfil us. For it is amongst all the apparently uncivilised, savage and wild… Read more
What Lies in a Life? Posted on 30 October 202112 December 2021 “Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.” Norman Mailer Read more
Saving Humanity Posted on 12 September 20211 November 2021 Latest in interesting “coincidences”, it is HL Mencken’s birthday today 12th September. Complete accident, I saved this picture previously as I agreed with the quote but didn’t know the author at all. I felt called to post it today, just now, on a whim and thought I had better look… Read more
Wild Women Posted on 21 July 202112 December 2021 “When you’ve looked death in the face, screamed at the top of your lungs and ripped out your heart, picked up the pieces, chosen life and truly accepted it, you don’t give up that easily. Those scared of death are the ones truly scared to live.” Natacha Neveu @thesortinghouse Read more
What We Owe Each Other Posted on 5 December 202013 December 2021 “I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.” Vandana Shiva Read more
Who is Gaia? Posted on 25 November 202012 December 2021 “… In the time before timeI heard a call from the cosmosof such illustrious beautyI succumbed answering the call of Gaia to help her seed a new landwhere love was all and yet have I to yearn for the affections of another… Read more
Pure Magic Posted on 28 July 20202 January 2022 “The power of the word is completely misused […] We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison – to express anger,… Read more
In Water We Trust Posted on 13 July 202012 December 2021 “Washing has always been a purification ritual. That doesn’t simply mean to purify, but also – like baptism, a term that originated from the Latin baptisma and of the Greek baptizen, meaning to immerse – to impregnate with the mystery, of spiritual godliness. Washing, is the first task in the tale, in order… Read more