Sun,31 Oct 2010
430
Coffee in hand, I watched the sunrise through the kitchen window this morning. The garden is snuggled under a thick blanket of leaves, with incongruous primroses poking confused faces through the debr...Read More
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Sun,12 Jul 2009
731
My son was attacked and horrifically stabbed in the head 8 days ago.In the English seaside town of Bournemouth where he lives and works. He is a bright, intelligent young man with a good future before...Read More
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Sat,25 Apr 2009
504
A young friend recently asked what are the ‘rules’ for studying occultism.
Silence... there is power in silence. Some things simply should not be spoken of and their experience diluted with words.....Read More
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Sat,28 Mar 2009
445
Ok, so I could have taken the main road... but the lanes were more inviting.Spring always gets me.. a yearning in the pit of the stomach, a deep-seated desire for the moors that are a couple of hundre...Read More
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Sun,15 Feb 2009
505
So, its the one day of the year when we show our loved ones, often at considerable cost, how much we care for them....
There are other days in the year, good days and bad days. A relationship, in o...Read More
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Wed,28 Jan 2009
454
Where exactly do we cross those lines in our quest that mark the next chapter of our journey? I can only speak for myself, but there is, I think, a pattern to these things.
As a child I was fascin...Read More
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Wed,21 Jan 2009
356
My youngest son, Alex, was clipped by a lorry on his motorbike on Sunday.
He managed to stay on the bike and keep it upright and get out of the way. He rode a little way and parked the bike in fro...Read More
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Thu,15 Jan 2009
373
Five years ago one of my dearest friends, and a man with an endless capacity for love, died in tragic circumstances. He was manic depressive and going through a dark time.
We met when I was workin...Read More
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Fri,19 Dec 2008
478
Like Golden Flower, I have studied the Qabalah and the Tree of Life for decades. First, at an intellectual level in my teens, then, as the seeds that were planted grew in my heart, from what I suppose...Read More
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Tue,16 Dec 2008
364
We are approaching Midwinter, the longest night and the Solstice, heralding a new year. All over the world, and throughout the whole spectrum of faith and belief, midwinter is celebrated as a time of ...Read More
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Tue,09 Dec 2008
384
Or can it?
It occurred to me that my late husband had died 9 years ago already. Yet, even with the pain, he was very young when he died, both physically and mentally, just 54.
I passed 50 a few ...Read More
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Sun,30 Nov 2008
1071
I recently set up a new website for Spiritual artists worldwide. The Hearthfire was born following a conversation between myself and Heather Charnley. Although we have never met, we found we shared a ...Read More
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Tue,25 Nov 2008
371
It is cold and grey here today… the weather is being very English, with that insidious, almost invisible rain that soaks you to the skin. The tables of the chocolaterie are deserted on the pavement op...Read More
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Fri,21 Nov 2008
405
Autumn has come and almost gone, in a riot of gold and scarlet. Rivulets of bronze, like hoards of spilled treasure, line the lanes through the beech woods and clouds come down to wrap the hilltops in...Read More
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Sun,09 Nov 2008
427
No matter what our views on the futility or injustice of war, dictated by neccessity, greed, prejudice or the defense of the oppressed, it happens. Today, all over Britain and in countless cities and ...Read More
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Sun,09 Nov 2008
404
Once again I am being dug in the ribs at ungodly hours, with comments like, “Tell them to go away or phone you when you’re awake.”
Over the years it has become a regular occurrence that, in periods...Read More
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Mon,03 Nov 2008
401
Life can be a hard task master.
We all feel pain at some point in our lives, physical, mental or emotional, and we have to learn to deal with it. It is going to happen. No matter how hard we try to...Read More
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Thu,02 Oct 2008
571
Door of Dreams
Would you walk the corridor of dreams,
Into the dark and unknown inner places,
Where silent voices whisper your desires
From unkissed lips upon amorphous faces?
Dare you cross ...Read More
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Fri,05 Sep 2008
743
Dawn is coming later as the year draws to a close. This morning I drove my partner to work at 5.30 as usual… then took a detour to the Beacon at Ivinghoe to watch the dawn. The Whipsnade lion, a massi...Read More
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Wed,03 Sep 2008
632
At the bottom of my garden, just outside the fence, stands a tall and ancient chestnut tree. It towers above the rooftops, filling the view from the windows and overhanging most of my garden. It is ol...Read More
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Tue,26 Aug 2008
663
William Blake said," If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of hi...Read More
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Tue,26 Aug 2008
1233
The website of S.C.Vincent, painter of dreamscapes, visions and esoteric symbolism. Let me capture the essence of a dream, a scene that haunts your heart, a special place and translate it into a paint...Read More
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Tue,26 Aug 2008
1139
The website of S.C.Vincent, painter of dreamscapes, visions and esoteric symbolism. Let me capture the essence of a dream, a scene that haunts your heart, a special place and translate it into a paint...Read More
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Tue,26 Aug 2008
1191
Spiritual and meditational art in oils, watercolours and encaustic. Landscapes and Dreamscapes, visions and ideas, captured on canvas. Turn that haunting dream into a permanent image. That wonderful i...Read More
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Thu,14 Aug 2008
790
I have always been aware of magic. A strange, eclectic upbringing allowed me to grow without religious prejudice in a world where Bast and barguests were as possible as any other cat or dog and where ...Read More
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Thu,07 Aug 2008
914
The Hairy Healers
The early death of my husband and friend since childhood had devastated our little family. We had fought cancer together for years, with laughter and water pistols and general sil...Read More
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Thu,31 Jul 2008
792
The Bible tells us to become as a little child. Whether or not we start from a Christian viewpoint, this is good advice. Children see the world as an uncomplicated place in many ways. Things have a si...Read More
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