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A writer’s rant

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Dear WordPress, Yes, it’s me again. Well, what did you expect? Reindeer? First, let me thank you for providing what is, in my humble opinion, the best blogging platform out there with what has to be the best blogging community you could wish for. Second… WordPress, we have a problem. Well, several actually. Again. For starters,…

Over the hills

Nine Deadly Sins with Coffee, part 41 – When Logic Dies

The Silent Eye Nine Deadly Sins with Coffee, part 41 – When Logic Dies .Alexandra. It had been quite a week. I had wrested with the challenge that John had thrown down: the nature of the golden-antlered doe in the Heracles story. He had hinted that it was symbolic of something that underwent a transformation in the human being; something that was a key … Read More Nine Deadly Sins with Coffee, part 41 – When Logic Dies

A silver cord

Sue’s memories touch a cord… The Silent Eye As soon as I was considered old enough to wander alone… a ridiculously young age by today’s standards… I would knock on the doors of the various elderly relatives that lived within a stone’s throw of home or school. Their doors opened onto another era that to my young eyes qualified as the ‘olden days’. There … Read More A silver cord

From Bakewell with love – the gift of surprise

What do you do when two of your best friends put you in gaol for a crime the three of you carried out… and leave you there? The characters of Wen, Don and Ben in the Doomsday series by Stuart France and Sue Vincent are not-so-loosely based on the three people who run the Silent Eye School. Imagine, in real life,  joining the other two one … Read More From Bakewell with love – the gift of surprise

Waste no more time…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
My son has been through hell lately. Not for the first time and, life being what it is, probably not for the last. As some will know he faced a major challenge in 2009 when he was stabbed through the brain and left for dead in an alley. His determination to heal on all levels has…

Wedded in Sorrow

When the strength of our reaction Creates the enemy Giving him a strength in life He never had in death. (c)Copyright Stephen Tanham 2015  

Be Yourself

Storm winds

A world of change

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
I had picked up the book from the shelves at the top of the stairs. When I am too tired to read anything useful in bed, I go to old and familiar friends that I know I can re-read and enjoy as pure relaxation without having to concentrate or analyse. This one I hadn’t read for…

Station to Station XI…

The Silent Eye Meditations What aspects of the personality could be represented by: …The Hooded Figure …The Bearer of the Cross …The Haloed Female Figure …The other female figures …The figures disrobing Jesus …The figure of Jesus …The body of Jesus …The figures entombing the body? – Dark Sage View original post

Station to Station IX…

Stuart’s very deep exploration of the Stations continues… The Silent Eye Questions   If the story of Jesus is historical then why contemplate unhistorical episodes of that story? Why would the Roman soldiers coerce Simon into helping carry the cross? To what does the prophecy uttered by Jesus to the Women of Jerusalem refer? What do the hieratic gestures of the hooded figure signify? … Read More Station to Station IX…