‘Yes, it’ll just be gorgeous!’, said God with a gleeful grin.‘All the fun of the flesh, you know, with a spiritual life thrown in!’ ‘Well, I, think it sounds excessive indeed!’ said Lucifer, ‘What about me?Why should they get all the best of both worlds, absolutely free?’ ‘Because Lucificer, they’ll love it. Just imagine the…
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is also the day we began the Bard School. I was struck, (after looking through the many websites and articles on Lourdes and the Immaculate Conception of Mary), by this intense and penetrating gaze of Bernadette, the 14 year old peasant girl from a…
God said, ‘Enjoy the Sacred Tree! Don’t consume it, Let it be.. Contemplate the fruit-filled boughWonder at beauty, bless and bow, Reverence its inviolate charmsAnd leave in peace from the grasping arms The Tree that exists for its sake aloneNot to be a victim of the take and own.’ But Eve attended to the Serpent’s…
You enjoy too much I thinkThe pleasures of unconsciousnessBut someone very near will bear The price that you won’t pay You rejoice too long I think In the palace of penumbraAnd in the planes between the worldsWhat tunes you love to play.I have stood too long I thinkBy a door without dimension ‘Lazarus dome forth…
Hurrah for wonderful people who do things with originality and humour.. Check out Out of the Ordinary a workshop in East London where you can make beautiful and useful things from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. Their blogspot homepage says – “Imagine an urban habitat for people who like to tinker with a…
In Jerusalem this year, the joy of the iphone became a new way of praying! You always had the opportunity to look more carefully, then capture, remember and reflect. Once in the old Christian Quarter, I turned aside and saw this previously hidden stairway, within a courtyard and behind an arched door. Just to look…
I never heard Time speak.She holds her cloak around her secrets. Sometimes, though, she lays her picnic blanketOn the ground, But I provide the foodAs do those who might pass by. I never heard Time singingThough the trees she nurtures, who contain her presenceHold the birds who sing. They sense that love is in the…
I’ve always thought that True Merriment was a gift of grace; a very particular hobbity gift, much needed and full of soul restoring joy. Here is Justin’s account of the Literary Lunch in Lavender Hill that he organised as his contribution to the Bard Fest 2011 and it looks as though there will be more…
Deborah Damage was dangerously used,Complicit in being entirely abused.With daring, embarking on healing the damaged,Within a life cycle destructively managed; By leading her always to nurture the cruelIn order to prove to herselfI’m the jewel, That can make the difference.I am the toolThe special, the useful oneNobody’s fool. Forgive me my father,Yet I’m your forgiver.It’s…
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