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Wise Men of Deerhurst

24 Saturday Dec 2022

Posted by Candia in art, Bible, mythology, Photography, Religion, Travel, winter

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Christmas, Deerhurst, Frankincense, gifts, Gloucestershire, gold, myrrh, Nativity, stained glass, Wse Men

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Thank you to all my readers and followers- especially for sharing your gifts with me.

Merry Christmas!

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Pre-Raphaelites

27 Sunday Nov 2022

Posted by Candia in art, Bible, Literature, Music, mythology, Nature, Photography, Religion

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Ashmolean, Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, King Arthur, Millais, Oxford, Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin

From the closing exhibition at The Ashmolean, Oxford

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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More Yarnton Glass (Oxfordshire)

12 Tuesday Oct 2021

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Apocryphal scenes, Biblical scenes, church windows, medieval glass, Oxfordshire churches, Yarnton

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Yarnton Glass, St Bartholomew, Oxfordshire

08 Friday Oct 2021

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Bible, Photography, Religion

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armorial glass, medieval glass, Oxfordshire, St Bartholomew, Yarnton

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Psalm 95 v 7

08 Saturday May 2021

Posted by Candia in Animals, art, Bible, Literature, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography, Relationships, Religion, Spring

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Cotswold churches, pasture, Psalm 95, sheep, stained glass

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He Knoweth The Way That I Take

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

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affirmation, Book of Job, confidence, Divine assistance, expectation, faith, Job 23:10, Old Testament, trials

and when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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Not Here, But Risen

28 Sunday Mar 2021

Posted by Candia in art, Bible, Personal, Religion, Supernatural

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churchyard, Cotswolds, Easter, empty tomb, Fairford, Forsythia, gravestone, Resurrection, St Mary's Gloucestershire

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The Lamb

03 Wednesday Mar 2021

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Easter, halo, lamb, Paschal, radiance, sheep

The Lamb by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire

11 Thursday Feb 2021

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Cistercian, Cotswolds, Great Coxwell, Joseph, monastic wealth, National Trust, Oxfordshire, Pre-Raphaelites, tithe barn, Vale of the White Horse, William Morris

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Poem published in October 2017 on this site.

Great Coxwell’s Barn

Off Hollow Way stands this vast, vacant barn:

huge receptacle for Cistercian tithes,

garnered from tenant farmers – a dry store,

where the granger checked accounts; did not trust

his hired servants.  Here Cotswold riches

were protected from thieves and from decay.

Christ had warned disciples about decay

and storing up of surplus in a barn.

Christians were always meant to share riches

and not to extract profit from fat tithes.

The parable’s ‘fool’ was he whose whole trust

was in possessions.  He had wrath in store.

Henry VIII would plunder a marked store

and most abbeys were subject to decay.

Monastic wealth was held in deep distrust.

Though Morris praised this cathedral-like barn,

Pre-Raphaelites would not restore tithes;

they venerated aesthetic riches.

We coveted colonial riches

and viewed the whole world as potential store,

compelling other countries to pay tithes;

forgetting moth and rust would cause decay.

What were the treasures we stored in our barn?

We’ll reap what we sowed: we abused faith, trust.

Joseph, in whom Pharoah had put his trust,

managed underground silos of riches

and, when his brothers came – not to a barn-

but to the pits where corn was kept in store,

did they recall they’d left him to decay

in such a space?  (He who asked no tithes.)

This massive hulk, once packed with peasant tithes,

now supported by The National Trust,

mouldered with neglect; died of decay,

until ‘heritage’ was seen as riches.

What are the values we would like to store?

Should we maintain the past?  Convert the barn?

Some build barns with their family riches,

but tithes benefited community,

as long as mutual trust did not decay.

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Transfiguration of the Ordinary

13 Monday Apr 2020

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domestic visions, epiphany, spiritual enlightenment, transfiguration, transformation of the ordinary

stained glass christ at stables

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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© Candia Dixon Stuart and Candiacomesclean.wordpress.com, 2012-2013. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Candia Dixon Stuart and candiacomesclean.wordpress.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

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