In 1930, a 23 year old accountant from Blackburn arrived by train for a holiday in the small town of Windermere, high above the lake that shares its name. He
Tag: English Lake District
Water-Circle+Cross (1) Coffee under the old woman’s claifeWater-Circle+Cross (1) Coffee under the old woman’s claife
What’s a claife? Actually a Claife… we’ll get to that. The Silent Eye’s spring workshop (SE23) began in glorious May sunshine, as those attending – our companions – began to
Stories of Winter FireStories of Winter Fire
Here in the Lake District, colour can be hard to find in the Jan-March depths of winter. So I thought it might be fun to explore the replacement of faded
The Light and the GloomThe Light and the Gloom
Kendal, midweek… the retail day was drawing to a close. A thin fog had covered the town and its surrounding hills for most of the day, and the encroaching darkness
Goths on the Lake?Goths on the Lake?
A mid-November trip to Keswick and one of its two lakes – Derwent Water. The last few days of the visit of our artist friend from Oz, before she leaves
Beyond The WinterBeyond The Winter
It’s at this time of year, when the nights are long and the days short and getting shorter, that we turn our attention to a what could unfold in the
Heroes in a Landscape (3) Learning from NatureHeroes in a Landscape (3) Learning from Nature
Continued from Part Two… My phone wasn’t dead – it looked perfectly bright against the dark landscape, but it wasn’t responding to any finger gestures. And it contained my copy
Heroes in a Landscape (1) ArrivalHeroes in a Landscape (1) Arrival
It’s a method for uniting a group of people to a common purpose. It’s a technique for ‘washing’ the immediate environment and dedicating your effort to the highest motive and
Spirituality in TransitionSpirituality in Transition
There are times when you know that a particular world is changing. By ‘world’ I mean a specific part of life, not the whole world, though that could be said
Orderly and alignedOrderly and aligned
There’s an old aphorism in the field of teaching mysticism: that if you endeavour to do something of significance; something that requires careful planning and even more careful resourcing, then
Lakeland in Winter (1) Bowness-on-WindermereLakeland in Winter (1) Bowness-on-Windermere
I thought you might like a walk through Bowness-on-Windermere. It’s the place that most people think of as ‘Windermere’, but the actual town of Windermere is a 45 min walk
THE HILL WITH TWO STATIONSTHE HILL WITH TWO STATIONS
Our small village, Sedgwick, near Kendal, has a landscape shaped in the classic terminal topography of ancient glaciers. This area of gentle, rounded hills is typical of the final stages
emerging from the mist…emerging from the mist…
There’s a certain amount of ‘fighting back’ in this. The long period of Covid restrictions, followed by a summer in which we all got a taste of gentle freedom again;
Season Changing: Levens ParkSeason Changing: Levens Park
We had just begun our evening walk, the collie and I. We were going to visit ‘the oak’, and say our goodbyes to its ‘fullness’; its summer glory, as we