In the early rays of autumn

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It’s hard to capture the nutty smells of early autumn. Or the warm ripeness of plump blackberries after they’ve been basking in the sun. And the shafts of light, lower in the clear sky, that pick out the rich colours we only see at this time of year. Yet it is this time, now, for … Read more

A possibility of ripeness

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Where the sun reaches through, blackberries are popping their exuberant fruitfulness. … not so much looking for the shapeas being availableto any shape that may besummoning itselfthrough mefrom the self not mine but ours. From Poetics by A R Ammons, quoted in A Simpler Way Where is my light coming from?

Crossing the unknown – seeing differently

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We know the phrase “he who hesitates is lost“, but there is also foolishness in stepping forward without looking. However, many of us are now facing a conscious decision to step into the unknown. Unknown because it can’t be determined, not because we haven’t done our homework. Yet while our future can’t be understood through … Read more

Being generous

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We want to be generous. It’s in our nature. But it can get buried: by busyness – we forget by overwhelm – we stop seeing by anxiety that we have nothing to give – we feel worthless (wrongly) by having so much demanded of us – we fear running dry and hoard Generosity is the … Read more