Year: 2013

  • Bardsey Island

    “Here there are pilgrims born of the waves with sunset in their eyes.” Moses Glyn Jones Pilgrim is the name you’ve been given as each day you walk the pilgrim way. Go west to land’s end and wait. Taking the narrow way across to the Isle of Bards, listen for the echo of saints come […]

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  • Go Gently

    Go gently as you climb Máméan of Connamora. Walk in a manner appropriate for the mountain and for the greater good. Take two hands, one for the mountain and one for yourself. Tread softly upon the ground. With each step your foot will be received by creation’s waiting. This ground will love you and wound […]

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  • July 2013

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  • Time

    I’ve been thinking a bit about time. The following images each communicate time in a different way. Chronos measures and marks time. The hands of time never idle. Kairos is different, it is time within and beyond time, transcended time suspended and eternal. Kairos cannot be measured by shadow, sand or hand but exists in […]

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  • Stonehenge

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  • Wow

    I’m reading the Anne Lamott’s latest book. It’s a book on prayer that is inspirational without leaving me feeling guilty. Anyway, Anne says “Wow” means we are not dulled to wonder. The word “Wow” is thought to have been used first by Thomas Burns in a poem 1871 “Tam o’ Shanter” “An’, wow! Tam saw […]

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  • Hope

    I was reading, if you want to see a rainbow you need to be between the sun and the rain with the sun at your back. Beauty like this needs a storm. The light shines in the darkness. That’s what hope is.

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  • Bridge over time

    I met my great great great grandfather this week. Born 1791 – died 1869. A stone in the ground says this is where he lived and died. His name was John. John was the son of William whose father was also William. John (1791) married Mary Dare (m1817) and had a son named John, who […]

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