creating change without shouting
Where is the pathon the cusp of time?The invitation to walk fromknowing to unknowing. To see the change in seasonripening before our eyes,while whispering farewellsto lives once lived. Nothing is held formore than a moment.These are just spaceswe dance within. ~ After feeding the alpacas, I climbed up the hillside, watching the flow of seasons … Read more
There is no waiting room for what is to come. We are here, now, at this moment. And we cannot go back and have previous moments again. So there may be things – ideas, actions, perspectives or words – whose time is now past. Or, to paraphrase Heraclitus: ‘We cannot step into the same river … Read more
This is the title of a profoundly beautiful poem by Ursula K Le Guin. Part of her last collection of poetry, she gathers a lifetime of wonderings in these words: HYMN TO TIME Time says “Let there be”every moment and instantlythere is space and the radianceof each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance.And the gnats’ … Read more
We are so steeped in a mechanical relationship with time that we don’t see it as subjective and organic. Instead, we fight for mastery and control. Yet if time isn’t something done to us, how could we cultivate a healthy knowing? And if time isn’t a foe, what might it be like as a friend? … Read more
Where have we beenthat we are coming this way;and what has shaped usbefore when? In our carryingwhat must we let goto move with the freedomof together now, in the flow of time? ~ Inspired by a lovely conversation with the wise and perceptive Steve Done
Whenever I start a story, there’s always a ‘before’. Before this time, this event, there was. And living here in this little valley in South West Wales, we are immersed in the endless circle of life. At the same time, recognising that we are just here for a metaphorical season. Here time is more circular … Read more