The Time Conundrum

“The nature of time started changing at the beginning of December 12, 2012. At that point, it changed from a linear movement – hence the Mayan prophesy about the ‘end of time’ – to a centrifugal movement. This type of time is called...

The More I Learn

I’m surprised to remember that when I was about sixteen years old, I read a lot of science fiction. I’m not attracted to it now, or in any case I am not reading it now….maybe the science fiction I was reading then was opening my mind and spirit to...

Under a Chestnut Tree

There is an image that haunts me. Walking across England nine years ago, I passed a young father and his very young son piling chestnuts into a fair size basket. The scene could not have been more quintessentially English. It was quite early in the morning and the...
Holly’s Allure

Holly’s Allure

Towards the Winter Solstice I begin to feel a yearning to connect with the energy of ‘holly’. It is quintessentially winter-ish. Along with ‘ivy’ it moves something in me that burns like a slow hot fire, snaking it’s way upward  like the...

On Alchemy

Photosynthesis is a true, natural alchemy; it is what allows a plant to, literally, build itself from air, water, light – from “nothing”. from ‘The Golden Spruce’ – John Vaillant