On the gentle emergence of beauty

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Beauty is not in a hurry. It doesn’t shout before it is ready, until it is formed in the secret place. Then it emerges, responding to light and love, and sings its transcendent song. ‘What is real is almost always, to begin with, hidden, and does not want to be understood by the part of … Read more

Pausing for the radical act of patience

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I wonder if we’ve let our connection with the reality of time become too frayed. Something to be discarded because it’s outgrown its usefulness. We’ve lost the value of patience, perhaps considering it to be the domain of elderly aunts who don’t know any better. Yet patience forms us in ways we need, building depth … Read more

Unveiling the unseen

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What we think we seeis only surface,  simply caught inthe angle of light; colourful texturescatching our attentiondistracting us fromthe deeper work of patiently andpassionately waitingfor the unseento be revealed. ~ Stimulated by a delightful conversation with Josie Mackenzie on the extraordinary alchemy of creating plant dyes.