by Steve Tanham
Sue continues the description of the Dorset weekend that she and Stuart created. The Silent Eye Leaving the church, we gathered in the little garden beside it which, so the church’s keeper of the keys would tell us, had been sold to them for the princely sum of £1, with the sole proviso that the garden be used. Beside its gate is another fragment … Read More The Giant and the Sun – The pattern in the landscape
by Steve Tanham
Beyond the blue is something more Where green leaves end is azure’s home No distance fades or feathers this Transition in the air of Life No boundary we don’t set in stone ➰ Before the Green my eyes appear Not open – grow – from matter’s heart Creating depth with brain that knows What it remembers, nothing more The veil of knowing is the … Read More Veil of Blue
by Steve Tanham
Sue with further detail about Cerne Abbas. The Silent Eye Crossing the land upon which the Abbey of Cerne Abbas had once stood, our party split into two groups. The more adventurous went to climb a hill. Having climbed it once before, on the hottest day in memory, and without hats or water, Stuart and I joined the more sedate party that skirts the … Read More The Giant and the Sun – Open minds
by Steve Tanham
Sue’s description of the events at the Silver Well in Cerne Abbas. The Silent Eye “There is an alchemy of fire and water going on within and without.” Alethea Kehas It is early. The streets of the Dorset village of Cerne Abbas are quiet as we make our way through the hush of morning to a place of perfect peace. The churchyard attached to … Read More The Giant and the Sun – The Silver Stream
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stuart France:
* ‘…A church, full bleak, and weather beaten, all alone, as it were forsaken…’ * “St Michael de Rupe?” “St Michael the Rock.” “I thought St Peter was supposed to be the ‘Rock’?” * * “The rock referred to here, is volcanic.” “Nice.” * * “Though you would never know it now…” * * “…The church-tower can still serve…
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stuart France:
* If Giants… * * Could construct… * * Balance-Stones… * * They would look a little like this… * * And for those still in need of perspective… * * ‘TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HANDS’… If these stone structures are produced by ‘nature’s hand’, it may be salutory to consider ‘modern man’s hand’ in contrast, which has,…
by Steve Tanham
Sue puts some more detail on the Cadbury Hill experience.
by Steve Tanham
Like the best of ideas, it begins with a partly-seen ghost, the glimmer of an edge of something that will work…. Ideas are great, but, unless something is practical and consistent on the day, its value is limited to fuelling a ‘greater’ idea that will be. And then the right idea expands, filling out, not linearly, but with emotions that billow like a spinnaker on … Read More Castles of the Mind (1)
by Steve Tanham
Against the heat, I have to climb To drink the air so soft and fine That my sore feet and too hot dog Seek, daily in these fleeting months For she who hides the winter in the wine ___ In heady breaths of fragrant fire My lungs draw deep the hotter bliss Now fading like the summer’s arc Will shortly start to downward curve … Read More The kiss of summer
by Steve Tanham
From Sue: A deep and thoughtful introduction to Knights Templar spiritual thought….
Sun in Gemini 
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