Sue Vincent's Blog: Echoes of Life, page 7
March 28, 2023
Knights, saints and leys…
*** Walking through the town towards the church in Bakewell, I couldn’t help thinking that it was all a bit weird. There were inexplicable gaps between what we had seen and what we had been brought to realise, gaps that … Continue reading →
Knights, saints and ley lines…
*** Walking through the town towards the church in Bakewell, I couldn’t help thinking that it was all a bit weird. There were inexplicable gaps between what we had seen and what we had been brought to realise, gaps that … Continue reading →
March 23, 2023
Big Book of Giants…
* Beyond the forest’s leafy shade, The hooded one, with giant’s pace From pinnacle to pinnacle Leap’t silently, in moonlit grace… * In eremitic solitude In caverns deep to meditate… Within, the riddle of the night, A key that will elucidate… * Beyond the stones, to four once nine To where the goddess meets her … … Continue reading →
March 16, 2023
Magical mornings…
*** It was a luminous dawn, the world blanketed in a thick cocoon of frost against the darkness and silence of a newborn morning. The sun rose, pale and gold, strewing a million diamonds on the tarmac path; setting a … Continue reading →
March 9, 2023
Flying Kites…
*** … The church of St Lawrence is surrounded by Yew trees and as we leave the grounds I see a flash of red arrow from tree to tree very low as if coming in to land. I burst through … Continue reading →
January 29, 2023
An Unexpected Encounter…
We took to the backroads again, nodding to Drake’s statue as we passed through Tavistock once more, climbing up towards Dartmoor. On our way south, the mists had closed around us completely and we had seen little more of the … Continue reading →
January 24, 2023
Hawk at Dusk
*** Since the birth of the Silent Eye, we have held regular workshops, including, for the past seven years, an annual residential weekend of ritual drama in Derbyshire. We have had a huge amount of fun with these weekends over … Continue reading →
January 23, 2023
Hawk at Noon
*** The cult of celebrity seems to have run mad over the past few years. Anyone can have their fifteen minutes of fame and if they can be sufficiently outrageous, outraged or enraging, may find themselves with a career in … Continue reading →
January 21, 2023
Labour pains…
*** The clock is ticking, time inexorably moves us closer to the launch event of the Silent Eye… in a little less than three weeks… We are flat out getting everything ready… and of course, this is precisely when I … Continue reading →
January 9, 2023
The Calling…
Because we had risen so early and wasted no time getting back on the road, we had several hours left before the ferry was to sail from Tarbert. We decided to use them seeing a little more of the island … Continue reading →
