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Be more Badger ~ calling afresh on an old ally
Be more Badger ~ calling afresh on an old ally A few nights ago, I caught the end of a nature programme I’d seen before, “Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem” and I had an enjoyable twenty minutes...
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Things of Winter Beauty and Wonder: Advent Day Twelve
Day Twelve Birds in the garden As winter arrives a variety of migrant birds arrive in Britain; not just the overwintering geese for whom our climate is like a spa holiday compared to their usual...
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Things of Winter Beauty and Wonder: Advent Day Fourteen
Day Fourteen Winter Trees Trees have a very different beauty during the winter. Stripped of leaves by now, they stand starkly naked, skeletal and dark with rain. Sometimes they acquire false leaves...
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Things of Winter Beauty and Wonder: Advent Day Fifteen
Day Fifteen Evergreens On a bright day in winter, a full grown holly tree can seem almost dazzling. Each shiny leaf reflects the light so that the entire tree seems to glitter. It’s no wonder that even...
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Bury the Bloom
Bury the bloom Bloom Exuberantly, Extravagantly Unashamedly. Fill the air With fragrance and colour, Light and joy. Catch the eyes Of all who pass. Stand proud, Juicy-stemmed Head held high Filled with...
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Escape to the Paradise Garden
Escape to the Paradise Garden The word paradise means a walled enclosure or garden and has long been used to mean the place souls go to when we die or the place where God lives. The garden of Eden in...
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Give Me Wild – for the Summer Solstice
Give me wild Take me where the boughs bend low Take me where the waters flow Take me where the clean winds blow: Give me wild Show me where the bluebells sway Show me where the otters play Show me...
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On Invisible Fish
On invisible fish I’m lucky enough to have a large pond in our garden; we’ve never had a pond before we moved here and I’m not sure I’d do without one now. There’s something deeply attractive...
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God 1
God 1 I do not want your slot machine god Powered by caprice and uncertainty. Nor do I want your vending machine god: Pop in a prayer and out pops a reward. I want the untamed god Unknowable as the...
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H is for Heresy
H is for Heresy Long ago (and perhaps not so very long ago) I’d have been burned as a heretic or hanged as a witch, because my expressed beliefs do not conform to the required norms of Churchianity (...
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N is for Newt
N is for Newt When I taught English as a foreign language, playing word games was a nice ten minute filler at the end of the lesson. Going through the alphabet and finding a word for a series of...
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S is for Spring (s)
S is for Spring(s) I’ve written a lot about springs over the years I’ve been blogging. Indeed, I wrote an entire novel about a very special spring, the waters of which heal broken souls and mend...
View ArticleThe Bad, the Good, and the Indifferent: 2017 in review
The Bad, the Good, and the Indifferent: 2017 in review The sands of time are trickling to the bottom bulb of the egg-timer of 2017. I’m not sure if it’s hard-boiled or burned-out, yet, so I am trying...
View ArticleThe reality of a loss of faith
The reality of a loss of faith There has much been written over the millennia on a phenomena known as loss of faith and I’m going to add to those many millions of words with a few of my own; those...
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Tales of the Well-Spring 6 – returning to Source
Tales of the Well-Spring 6 – returning to Source “Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons away” says the old hymn. And its daughters too, though we still seem to be seldom mentioned,...
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Small things to reduce plastic use and other green tips
Small things to reduce plastic use and other green tips With the New Year came a plethora of articles and television programmes, basically with a new year-new you theme. The tidy fairy aka Marie Kondo...
View ArticleOf Violets and of Moss
Of Violets and of Moss There are violets that grow in my garden; there’s a patch of them at the end of the drive which is expanding steadily, year on year, and because the garden there is a raised...
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