Doors within Doors ~ deciphering the dreaming

Doors within Doors ~ deciphering the dreaming Last year I found myself taking lots of photographs of doors and doorways, some open, some closed and some even bricked up.  The best ones (visually anyway) were ones that were taken from the inside looking out. The view is framed by the doorway and the view is [...]

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I WANT TO BELIEVE ~ being Mulder AND Scully

I WANT TO BELIEVE ~ being Mulder AND Scully One of my favourite TV shows of all time was the X-files. I happened upon the pilot episode when it first aired in the UK and I was hooked. Mulder had a poster in his basement office at FBI headquarters which I have long coveted. It [...]

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A fragrance of roses ~ a love-story for Christmas Eve

  A fragrance of roses    The scent of summer wakes me, drifting on the cool night air, and brings me to consciousness again. Roses in fullest bloom, warmed by June sunshine, great old fashioned cabbage-headed flowers that drop petals and trail their heavenly scent throughout the house. But it is late December and amid [...]

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I believe in Father Christmas….

  I believe in Father Christmas   This might sound a peculiar statement from one of my years (I am over forty) but do bear with me on this. My childhood Christmas memories are pretty well all happy ones, and my parents maintained the Father Christmas idea by not putting any decorations or a tree [...]

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Across the Ages ~ a story for All Souls’ Day

Across the ages ~ a story for All Souls’ Day I waited for you, lurking in the shadows of the agora, hoping to share what I had stolen from listening to philosophers, shawl covering my face and the food in my basket emitting glorious fragrance of ripe fruit and warm bread. They don’t like women, [...]

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“It’s the end of the world as we know it ~ and I feel fine!”

“It’s the end of the world as we know it ~ and I feel fine!” The world has been about to end pretty much ever since a worried proto-human went to bed worrying if the sun would come up again tomorrow. Every culture has had its end of the world myths and predictions and even [...]

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In Memoriam ~ when the dead speak to us

In Memoriam ~ when the dead speak to us Today is the Autumn Equinox and I woke crying. I woke crying because I dreamed about a friend who is dead. Debbie was one of those extraordinary people who just brim with talent and ability; she was doing a doctorate in Zoology at the same time [...]

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Practical spirituality ~ how to really use the Bible….a sermon for Trinity 11

The following is my husband’s sermon for today the 11th Sunday in the season of Trinity.   The Bible is a practical book! How? A big old fashioned one could help short people like me reach things on high shelves. Butthat’s not what I mean. I have a book somewhere with a title like, “Bible [...]

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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound” ~ or why compassion for others may be something only learned the hard way

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound” or why compassion for others may be something only learned the hard way. I finally had to bite the bullet this last week and face my nemesis. Well,  one of them. This is my fifth season teaching the summer school and until last week I’ve avoided doing a [...]

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Lost #4

Lost #4 There are no paths. All around me, endless shades of green, with some brown and red and orange as counterpoint, and no opening, no indication that anyone has ever come this way before. I sag against the trunk of the tree I have just climbed, the memory of those distant mountains burned into [...]

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