Hammad, who composed the music on my CD and follows events at the Bard School from Slough and Pakistan, and whose name means “One who sings for God”, stayed up all night after hearing the news of Shahbaz’s brutal killing, to compose this lament for him. You won’t need to understand urdu to be moved…
I put out a request for Bards to send in Stories and Pictures of where they were and how they were doing, learning, being and becoming more bardic. Rejoicefully I received this from Leo and Claire… I’ll let their words and pictures tell you about their adventures volunteering in magical places in the Pyrenees and…
It is a very funny scene and as with most good comedy, has a serious subtext that makes the humour work. Harry Potter fans will know the scene, though it doesn’t apear in the film of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is why I’d forgotten all about it till yesterday. Just by…
I’ve been browsing again through the book that Helen lent me, Fr Thomas Dubay’s “The Evidential Power of beauty – Science and theology meet” The quote that opens the book comes from Von Balthasar – “Every experience of beauty, points to infinity“. I highly recommend it for the wet weather; by which I mean that…
There’s something about contemplating the psalms using this gorgeous and soulful old interlinear translation printed in 1906 that makes the experience even more of a return to being planted by the water courses so that one’s leaves may not fade. Is it the inscape and the instress? That is, the absolute individuality of the thing…
I’ve been thinking about different types of Prophecy. I took this photo of a beautiful statue of King David near his tomb in the old city of Jerusalem. Note that before he became king, he was asked to play the harp for King Saul, which healed the King of an “evil spirit”. Presumably, David learnt…
“Where are the tidings of union? that I may arise,Forth from the dust I will rise up to welcome thee!My soul, like a homing bird, yearning for Paradise,Shall arise and soar, from the snares of the world set free…When to my grave thou turnest thy blessed feet,Wine and the lute thou shalt bring in thine…
Well I couldn’t resist photographing this gorgeous ceramic street plaque in Jerusalem, and I was thinking today – who lives on the street of prophets? I was also wondering who you would nominate for your street of prophets.. Don’t worry we aren’t going to be eliminating anybody if they don’t play Amusing Party Games to…
When I saw this gorgeous Russian icon in a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem, I knew I had to have it! It was surprisingly inexpensive (unless of course I misunderstood the shekels!) .. but it’s an amazing creation. I asked an old man called Fr Seraphim why John the Baptist had wings. He…
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