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Creative Play
I made a conscious effort today to have a newsfast. It's just too easy to get sucked into the negativity *out there* and I always try to be aware of my own tendency to get hold of a bone and chew on it until I reach emotional exhaustion. I could drown in information overload about depleted uranium for instance, but I've done some info-trawling and I've put my thoughts about the use of the Solway in writing in all the directions I can think of. For now I have to let go and accept the boundaries ... read more
Anticipating Possibility
Today has been *one of those days* - by this I mean it has been one of those days where forces beyond myself seem to have converged on myself. It started before I was even awake, and this feels a little risky to share but what the hell it was just a dream ;)The Dreaming:The strongest image from the dream was a sense of betrayal or loss. There was a beautiful man (whom I have never known in waking or dreaming) and a sense of perfection and then there was a discovery that all was not as it ... read more
The Old Washer Woman
The Winter Goddess is said to dance around the tops of hills, it is said that her home is on top of Ben Nevis. She goes by the name of the Cailleach, or Carlin in Scots, and there are many places that carry stories of her exploits.Beneath the Paps of Jura, the cauldron of the Corryvreckan spins and swirls and it is here that the Cailleach washes her plaid. When her woollen cloak is clean and white she lays it across the land...She has been washing her cloak this morning and I am watching her ... read more
This Summer I….
... exhibited Art at Filosofgangen Gallery in Odense, Denmark:
Taexalia ~ The Spirit Lives On ~ Filosofgangen Odense 2007... visited New Hampshire...
Alyson's Orchard New Hampshire...where I was kissed by a butterfly...
Butterfly Blessing... ate the biggest ice-cream sundae ... read more
Busy Busy
Do you believe that if you choose to put the right kind of energy in the right kind of direction desired things will come to pass? I do. Do you believe in magic? I do. Are the two things one and the same? Hmmm. I think that you can put the right energy in the right direction and magic is the ingredient that brings you what you want and often with bonus extras. This month I have felt inspired to blog, and also to give my blog some added visibility by adding it to places like Technorati ... read more
How I See The Higher Power
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Persephone ~ Chapel of Garioch"][/caption] I am not separate from it - it is part of me and I am part of it. I say it because it cannot be named or defined as one single thing or being. Sometimes it is the sun warming the earth and sometimes the moon kissing the loch. Sometimes it is the Cailleach brooding in the clouds, sometimes Bride wearing a cloak of bees swarming. Sometimes it is me asking the clouds to part as much as it is ... read more
Thoughts About Animal Messages
During my Morning Pages I was musing about the creatures who have visited me recently - Crow, Mouse and Fox and as I was pondering about the medicine or messages they might be bringing me I realised they represented a quarter or element...How cool, I thought - and then I wondered what creature represents Water for me just now... and the 3 Pike I saw at the Aquarium of the Lakes swam into my mind...
Mouse ~ Earth ~ North ~ Body Crow ~ Air ~ East ~ Mind Fox ~ ... read more