There’s a certain power in knowing you are going to find something. It’s called confidence – which means With Faith, if you know your latin. And I think that lots of us have got into a habit of thinking we aren’t going to get something, so we don’t. And there we are; stuck. But tonight…
When I saw this window in the Garden by the pool of Bethsaida, I thought it was scary, so I photographed it! I thought, ‘Wow, the Prince is going to have to do a good bit of thorny-wood-chopping with the sword of innocence to get through to the sleeping princess in that castle!’ Do you…
‘As the Hasidic master Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav said, “Everything in this world has a heart; the heart itself has its own heart.” I was reading www.aish.com today, looking for thoughts on the Heart and found this – Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel today took out a full-page ad in the Wall…
This is my Valentine’s Card to whoever doesn’t have one today! I photographed these strawberries in Slough this summer, and they look happy. So Happy Valentine’s Day wherever you are in life or on the planet. Let it shine!
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…
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’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…
It’s useful to look back at old notes from years back sometimes to see what your vision and values were then.. and to see how they are unfolding: what new revelations they are being held in tension with and enriched by. I found some notes from a book that was inspiring me in 1987: it’s…
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