In October here, and being just up the road from ( Read more... )

Who is not in need of a new beginning at every moment and ( Read more... )

."When Francis preached love to the birds ( Read more... )

First today Happy New Year Peace and ( Read more... )

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I like this photograph ...one writer says " Coburn takes us into
a visionary world in which we see, simultaneously, things and
the emotions they engender." That sounds about right so lets
leave it at that and I need not attempt the like.


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Congratulation to Philip Scorer on his ordination as deacon ( Read more... )

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Following on yesterday's post, another work of Alvin Langdon Coburn
(1882-1966).
Does it remind of Japanese woodblock prints ? And I think of the
words of St. Andrew of Crete in his liturgical poem known as the
Great Canon :
Pass through the flowing nature of time... and take
possession of the Land of Promise, my soul: It is God's command.


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'Close" I see is a Scots term for alley and this one is in ( Read more... )

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September sundown and a blaze just then at the
low end of the visible spectrum does it perhaps
remind as it flows through the bushes and trees,
remind just a little of the blaze Moses saw which
introduced to him that Unnameable except through
the yielding of our own name given in
response to Being?


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I will allow myself to post a quote from
David Jones' work (whether novel or epic poem)
"In Parenthesis" on the First World War about which I
wrote yesterday. This from the end of the second of its
seven sections. John Ball is listening to his sergeant and...
"He looked straight at Sergeant Snell ( Read more... )