By this time next week it will be too late. There will no longer be any need to panic or dash around like headless chickens; anything we have forgotten will
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Nine minutes to One, part three – The Wishing Well “I suppose she sent you?” said the man with green eyes, looking down, sadly on the boy. “Who sent me?”
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Nine minutes to One, part two – Like Her And as he grew he dreamt of the mountains. Vast ranges of freedom in which his ideas would fly and
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My son was in trouble. The nursing staff and the psychologist at the rehab hospital had him cornered. “Think about it,” they said, “what’s the worst that could have happened?”
By any other name…By any other name…
Illustration by Pauline Baynes for the cover of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis Last night I had multiple tabs open across the computer screen, a to-do
Only human…Only human…
From the archives… “Yo, missus!” I turned… a tattooed yob in shredded denim with more piercings in his face than you would have thought possible held out my phone. “Your
Wanted…Wanted…
I need a man. Well, actually, I could do with a couple… but let’s not be greedy. What I really need is a knight…with or without the shining armour. I
Circles beyond timeCircles beyond time
An ancient landscape, shrouded in mystery… strewn with stones and the last of the summer heather…scattered with sites of ancient sanctity. Stone circles… an enigmatic fortress rising from the bracken
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In a plastic bucket beside the counter sat a dozen roses, each one individually wrapped, slightly faded, but with their heads held firmly erect in the stiff plastic. Each one
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Healer’s PrayerTeach me how to laugh; mother, sister, daughter, friendThat I may keep the joy withinto share with those that have no joy of their own.Teach me how to weep;
Simple spaceSimple space
You know how it is… you have an idea, then try and find a way to put it into practice. What at first seems obvious suddenly throws up all kinds
Three times threeThree times three
In April we will be holding our fourth annual workshop, marking three full years since the Silent Eye officially came to birth, though there had been a full year of
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Four days after my son was attacked and left in a coma in a hospital over a hundred miles away, we had a major water leak. It was our second
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‘…I would beget and would be begotten I would eat and would be eaten I would hear and would be heard I would be understood being all understanding. Dance ye
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“Short body and thick waist, with bulging buttocks spread more delicious to the taste was the one she by her led.” – J.R.R Tolkien #4: La Chapelle Verte “In which
Going green…Going green…
Over the past few weeks strange articles have begun to appear around the house. Arcane artefacts that belong, if not to another time, then to another world… a place of
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Christmas and New Year have always been special times for me – Christmas more than the New Year, as I have always come to view the Winter Solstice as the
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“…The loveliest lady there on him glanced with eyes of grey: that he found anyone more fair in truth might no man say…” – J.R.R Tolkien #3 La Belle Dame
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We had never attempted a Silent Eye pre-solstice workshop before. December in Britain is a challenging time of year to ask a group of spiritually-inclined folks to brave the elements
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“…for at the hue men gaped aghast in his face and form that showed; as a fey-man fell he passed and green all over glowed…” – J.R.R Tolkien #1. ‘…Any
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Illustration- John Howe …In the silence which had fallen upon the company, a loud wailing from without the Mead-Hall could be heard by all those present. Into the house that