The present moment is all you have—Eckhart Tolle. The days, suddenly lighter now, stretch a little longer here in the north. Already amethyst and gold crocuses circle mossy roots. Demure snowdrops, tiny bonnets fluttering in the spring breeze, colourwash the woodlands in pure white. And in the hushed darkness of space, two planet...
I did not recognise her at first. An effigy. A wax-work-woman. Skin taut, lips swollen, blue eyes slanted like Tretchikoff’s Lady from Orient. “I’ve just had it all lifted. And derma abrasion,” she mouthed through grotesquely swollen lips. “My 14-year-old son didn’t want to be seen with a wrinkly mummy!” A tight, un...
Hush now. See the Light in the sky. A new day has come. The year is re-born. The life-giving Sun stands still today, this day of the Capricorn Solstice – midwinter in the northern hemisphere, as the Sun lies low over the horizon. Here, in the south, at approximately 7:30am on December 22nd the Sun at its brilliant zenith, big b...
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