Silhouetting
iPhone 11 Pro Max orb of liquid goldsilhouetting bare black treesbeneath her fullness Tonight’s soon to be Full Moon * already glowing bright in Lakeland at 4.21pm * Friday 6th January 2023, 11.07pm
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Weathered
This beautiful photograph reminds me very much of one I stopped to capture (below) while visiting San Sebastián de la Gomera in January this year. I’ve been wondering what caught the eye of two photographers, in different places, each looking at weathered boards through a lens? And of course I can only speak for one … Continue reading Weathered
Edinburgh daydreamin’
It’s a decidedly chilly and grey January afternoon in Cumbria today – never, of course, without the natural beauty of Lakeland, but chilly, in a dispiriting sort of a way, anyway. And then a note from a friend in Edinburgh led to my daydreaming of that beloved city, and of summer days there this past … Continue reading Edinburgh daydreamin’
I am a …
I am a … man who is smiling, on a grey January day, having discovered a writer quite unlike any I’ve known before … and I am writing a glowing ‘review’ of a book I’m only 30 pages into because anyone who writes about mountains that ‘splooge out thick liquid fire spurts that run downhill … Continue reading I am a …
Ullswater blue
My little red adventurer and I checked in with the Lakeland weather forecast earlier today. Present blue sky’s a bit of a short-term blip in a (more usual for January) sea of grey, they say. So we set out to capture a few snapshots – reminders of light and warmth to come, and perhaps of … Continue reading Ullswater blue
Slideshow and Sticks
Cities and their great institutions – universities, houses of prayer, mills and factories, shops and markets, homes and schools, sculpture, memorial, resting places, valediction and welcome, and the public parks and gathering spaces – are ‘slideshows’ in time. They speak of things seen in the gradations of light in the great sky and set before … Continue reading Slideshow and Sticks
Tender
One of the things I’ve missed during the course of Lockdown UK has been proximity to the sea. I dream by day and by night of ocean’s flow and remember, more thankfully than would anyway have been the case, how fortunate I am to have been able to cross the Atlantic and sail up the … Continue reading Tender
Salty perception
I’m still setting out to lose myself this week in the perichoresis, the great dance of life, between Brianna Wiest and her marvellous ‘Salt Water’, myself, and the Great Oneness in whom we all exist. I’m still aware every day of the passing of the beloved poet Mary Oliver in January 2019. I’ve written before … Continue reading Salty perception
The Amazon, West Indies & The Azores
With CMV’s MS Magellan 8 January – 19 February 2020 8 January 2020 London Z Hotel Victoria for a good night’s sleep before CMV’s coach to join MV Magellan at Tilbury Cruise Terminal. London from a coach window as I’d never seen it before Passenger safety drill completed … 🛳
Buttoned up
Yes: I know it’s August the first, not January. But anyone reading the papers and online world news today might be forgiven for believing that we’re all caught up in nothing other – past, present or future, than a perpetually dreadful ‘winter of discontent.’ I say tosh to that! Jack Kornfield’s vignette about his twin … Continue reading Buttoned up
Happy returns
When we were children we used to give you the Giles annual at Christmas: ‘To Dad, with lots of love, from Simon, Sarah & Nick.’ And we still enjoy those brilliantly drawn accounts of loving family life in which everyone – cantankerous grandma, the bobby, the parson, postman, prime minister, ma, pa, cold-struck Vera, and … Continue reading Happy returns
Gelassenheit – letting go ii
I’ve seated myself upon a bench at the end of our long and narrow cottage flower garden twice today. Sunlight from east and west alike brought August touch of gold to flower and vegetable, as to the beady eyes of goldfinch, sparrow and thrush, and oddly to crystal clear remembering a January day’s Gelassenheit and … Continue reading Gelassenheit – letting go ii
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wind in my wheels 🌱 