by Steve Tanham
Continued from Part Two So, this one day, considered in all its facets, resolves itself into a journey, a destination and an arrival – an arrival at a meeting with a French relative we have never met, and whose unlikely presence, here in the north-west corner of Wales, completes a cycle of mystery and loss lasting ninety-three years… As we journey along the spine … Read More A game of three halves (3 of 3)
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Our last visit of a weekend that seemed to have flown by all too quickly was to a little church on the edge of Aberdeen. The sun finally decided to show its face… though it still managed to rain anyway, but at least we had blue skies through the roofless ruins of St Fergus’ Church. Originally built around eight hundred years … Read More Solstice of the Moon: Graven images
by Steve Tanham
It is, still, all of it, only one day… Though now the winds that buffeted the bed-and-breakfast farmhouse have abated. I look at my watch. We have two hours to go before we need to leave to drive across Anglesey to meet a young woman named Juliette, who holds the key to this entire story. She will be waiting, at noon, by the red … Read More A game of three halves… (2)
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Over the past few days we have shared stories and pictures of the places we visited during the Solstice of the Moon weekend in Scotland. What is impossible to share on these pages is the sense of warmth, the laughter and the camaraderie that attends these weekends. Those who come along are not all members of the Silent Eye… in fact, … Read More Wish you were here?
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stuart France:
* Quite apart from… * * being excessively beautiful… * * Loch Ness turned… * * out to be… * * A veritable watering hole for monsters! *
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye It looked, for a while, as if we might escape being rained on at our second site of the morning, but no… that would have been too much to ask The ritual cleansing would continue. We were heading for another recumbent circle, with a few unusual features… Loanhead of Daviot. The car park was full so I parked the car at … Read More Solstice of the Moon: Circles out of time
by Steve Tanham
It is, after all, only one day… Have you ever re-assembled a day into a different sequence? Been so involved with its contents that the threads seem to weave themselves, again… and differently. But it is only one day… and at the halfway point she will be waiting; waiting near the red tower where we will meet for the first time. And then the … Read More A game of three halves… (1)
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on bridgesburning:
The strangest thing happened yesterday and the thought of it stays with me today. I visit frequently and regularly with a dear relative who suffers from dementia. The kind of dementia doesn’t matter, it all translates to the same thing. Inability to communicate, to understand, to know. I read once that someone asked an old man why he went to…
by Steve Tanham
Most people are familiar with the Big Bang. It’s a name adopted by the scientific world to describe the origin of the universe, a point of ‘singularity’ at the centre of the original black hole where everything, including space and time, came into existence. Wikipedia defines it as: ‘The initial singularity was a singularity of infinite density thought to have contained all of the mass and space-time of … Read More The slow-quick Big Bang
by Steve Tanham
From Stuart: more detail than my earlier post and some fascinating observations… The Silent Eye Our first stop next day was a place where mysterious stones, a Celtic saint and a link to one of the best-known legends of the British Isles all come together in a village churchyard. It took a bit of finding, but at least the weather was a little less … Read More Solstice of the Moon: Circle of Peace
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