Month: March 2019

#FurryFives – Bored

Misti :  I’m bored Tess: I’m staying asleep Misti: I’m still bored Tess: You’ve been running across the back of my settee for an hour Misti: You’re so predictable… ©Stephen Tanham

Reality TV?

  It’s full of trivia and artificial things; things which have arisen in the name of entertainment. Everywhere you look there is a stream of mindless celebrities willing – some would say desperate –  to eat tropical bugs to give themselves a chance of being famous, again. It reminds me of a sad film I once saw called “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”. There … Read More Reality TV?

Swans…

From Stuart…

The Faces of Shiva (1)

  Brahma creates the world. Vishnu sustains it so that it might achieve its potential. Shiva destroys it when its positive energy has been exhausted. The ‘world’ might be everything, or, for the initiate of old, it might just as well apply to anything created by the mind – large or small. In other words a system. It should make us think… The ancient … Read More The Faces of Shiva (1)

#FurryFives – What’s a mirror?

  Tees :  There are two of them… Misti : There are two of us… Tess: One of them is watching us. Misti: It’s a mirror Tess: What’s a mirror? ©Stephen Tanham

The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

In the preceding parts of this series (see below for full list) we have seen how Arthur M. Young, inventor and chief engineer of Bell’s early helicopter design, was convinced that it was possible to construct a ‘map of human meaning’, a graphic figure that would show the relationships between the laws of physics and the observer in a new way. In its experiments, … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

Song of the street

(pixabay image by Natan Vance) “And therefore…” She was making fun of me; a fire in her eyes, and drawing circles on my skin after lovemaking, circles that burned with desire and brought me back to life in way that broke the fences of before… “I’ll show you,” she said, rising from our newly-earned bed. I stood, shivering in my expensive raincoat at the … Read More Song of the street

I Journey from Long Meg to Little Meg

Originally posted on The Light Behind the Story:
The pulse of red spiral of light emanating from the Long Meg stone lasted mere seconds. As the stone returned to its outer stasis, I found myself catching my breath in wonderment. Had I imagined the red eye? I examined the place where it arose, and before me was a spiral, inlaid in the stone. Surely…

The Keys of Heaven

The Keys of Heaven – The last journey of St Cedd It is the year AD 664. The coastal town of Whitby and its Abbey, under the control of the abbess who became St Hilda, are the setting for a Christian Synod – a court of doctrine established, on the face of it, to unify how priests cut their religious tonsure (gap in the hair) … Read More The Keys of Heaven

#FurryFives – feeling lucky, punk?

Tees (Dog): Now you’re asking yourself… Misti (Cat): Did she fire five or six? Tess: To be honest, punk, I don’t remember. Misti: So now you want to know if I’m feeling lucky? Tess: You make a rubbish baddie! ©Stephen Tanham

flakes of snow falling ~ haiku

Originally posted on rivrvlogr:
flakes of snow falling as crocuses reach for light this first day of spring This haiku is my response to Carpe Diem #1617 – the first day of spring. March 1st is the first day of the meteorological spring. Image source: pixabay.com / rhae ?

The Blindfolded Girl in the Hallway

Originally posted on The Light Behind the Story:
Photo Credit: Pexels It had been easy to plan. Perhaps too easy. My husband’s forwarding of the airfare deal had led to another trip across the pond that had been pulled together quickly and nearly effortlessly. I had two sets of gracious hosts, an almost absurdly inexpensive flight, and dates that fit the family’s schedule as…