The Peace of Wild Things” Written and read by Wendell BerryListen When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great Read more about The peace of wild things – Wendell Berry[…]
Liberate Yourself Through Sound [online] https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/liberate-sound-chloe-goodchild/ Resilience, Radiance, Remembrance Facilitator: Chloe Goodchild Chloe’s unique approach weaves a lifetime of inspirational stories, ancient spiritual knowledge, and cutting-edge science give you a unique experience of sound as the ground of consciousness, sourced from silence. This three-part course offers a wonderful opportunity to discover your own authentic voice; Read more about Naked Voice – Awakening through sound[…]
The rain is coming. There on the horizon the cloud bank forms rising in plumes, like smoke signals Confirming the forecast. But for now there is quiet. Just the bees buzzing around the fading jasmine. The gentlest breeze touching the tips of the stems, stalks, grasses and branches, receptive outliers. Then comes something stronger, a Read more about July the 13th[…]
God Is a DJ – Faithless This is my churchThis is where I heal my hurtsIt’s in natural graceOr watching young life shapeIt’s in minor keysSolutions and remediesEnemies becoming friendsWhen bitterness ends This is my churchThis is where I heal my hurts It’s in the world I’ve becomeContained in the humBetween voice and drumIt’s in Read more about God is a dj[…]
It is early morning,before the world wakes up. I open the front door. And here is heavensitting waiting for me to remember it. Geese and gulls fly across the sky sounding their distinct calls through the valley. Giant hydrangea blooms and tiny jasmine flowers abound. Up the garden, the first aquilegia seeds and a single Read more about Heaven[…]
SINGING NATURE BACK TO LIFEthelostwordsTHE AUTHORSROBERT MACFARLANESeek, find, speak• ThecreatorsofTheLostWordsdescribeitas:’‘abeautifulprotest’againstthe loss of everyday nature from our everyday lives in Britain and beyond’ and refers to Brecht:In the dark timesWill there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. JACKIE MORRISSeek, find, speak, createJackie Morris speaks of the ‘sleeping seed of a Read more about Lost word spell songs[…]
https://www.kimrosen.net/events-1 What I take:- MY POEMS ATTEMPT – RABIA. All of what I would want my child to know my poems attempt. We are infants before each others are we not, so vulnerable to each other’s words and movements. A school I sat in cured me of hurting others. I have come to see that Read more about Poetry Dive 2 With Kim Rosen[…]
Jane Hirshfield JasmineAlmost the twenty-first century —how quickly the thought will grow dated,even quaint.Our hopes, our future,will pass like the hopes and futures of others.And all our anxieties and terrors,nights of sleeplessness,griefs,will appear then as they truly are —Stumbling, delirious bees in the tea scent of jasmine.
Here is midsummer. The time of purple and orange. Out of a Jurassic forest of foliage rise the polemonium spears. holding aloft their beautiful-blue purple flower clusters. While pink-purple rockets burst forth on the buddleia bush. And Orange hawkbit waft their devil’s paintbrushes highamong the tall spears of lucifers Crosimia and the low snaking tendrils Read more about Purple and Orange[…]