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St Cuthbert

28 Sunday Feb 2021

Posted by Candia in Community, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Writing

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anachoresis, lammermuir, Lindisfarne, marginalia, oratory, quennet, solitude, St Cuthbert

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Lammermuir shepherd   Aidan’s translation   earthly resignation

plague visitation

lapsed pagans   Whitby Synod   spiritual reputation

Pictish voyage

eyewitness miracles   contemplative anachoresis   preferred solitude

Lindisfarne assignation

Easter marginalia

nocturnal devotions

inner demons

remote oratory

strict denial

divine worship

incorrupt corpse

contemplative shepherd   earthly solitude   Lindisfarne miracles

spiritual voyage

 

 

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Victory in Europe

09 Saturday May 2020

Posted by Candia in Community, Fashion, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Social Comment

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1940s singer, Alresford Railway, American forces, bunting, Retro, VE Day, Watercress Line

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celebrations of yesteryear

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Easter Garden

11 Saturday Apr 2020

Posted by Candia in Bible, Community, gardens, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Religion, Sculpture, Spring, Supernatural

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Buscot Church, Easter, Easter garden, hope of resurrection, Three crosses

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Buscot Church.  Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Jenner’s House

07 Tuesday Apr 2020

Posted by Candia in Community, History, News, Personal, Photography, Social Comment

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epidemics, immunity, Jenner, smallpox, vaccine

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Oh that he had a vaccine for us right now.

Photos by Candia

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The Church Door

30 Thursday Jan 2020

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Community, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Religion, Social Comment

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church door, footfall, liminal, people traffic, portal, regular worship, Time

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over the centuries…  By Candia Dixon-Stuart

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St Kilda Sheep

02 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Community, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography

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Kelvingrove Museum, prehistoric, St Kilda, St Kilda sheep, taxidermy

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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart of taxidermy example in Kelvingrove Museum

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Lechlade-on-Thames

05 Monday Aug 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Community, Environment, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Social Comment, Summer

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Cotswolds, Daily Telegraph, Lechlade-on-Thames, St Lawrence church, Thames

according to The Telegraph an uber-cool place to be.

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

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Blue City

18 Thursday Jul 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Community, Nostalgia, Personal, Travel

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acrylics, Blue City, Chefchaouen, Morocco, Raoul Dufy

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Chefchaouen, Morocco  by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Influenced by Dufy

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Adlestrop, Easter 2017.

31 Friday May 2019

Posted by Candia in Community, History, Literature, Nature, Nostalgia, Poetry, Social Comment, Writing

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Adlestrop, chicory, Edward Thomas, Evenlode, Gloucestershire, Jane Austen, Napoleonic Wars, Syrian refugees, wistaria

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Adlestrop Church

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

 

The Post Office is closed; a flyer pokes

out of a letter-box; thin rivulet

trickles down a bridleway, aiming for

the Evenlode.  A profusion of blue

chicory shivers in the breeze.  The church,

sanctified by its topiary cross –

reminiscent of Jane Austen’s necklet

which she wore as she left the rectory

on merciful missions to village poor –

stood firm during Napoleonic Wars.

Its roof vault is as azure as that sky

the poet contemplated on his brief halt,

when his depression lifted on hearing

birdsong, which trilled above the hiss of steam.

 

From trenches, could he see that cloudless square?

When someone failed to set the station clock,

did Time itself revolt at what would come?

 

 

Could we also be on the brink of war?

Yet pale Wisteria seems to conquer

fear and heraldic tulips blazon hope.

 

A yellow poster in the bus shelter

promises that all money raised

from a talk on Edward Thomas will fund

Syrian refugees – will help those ‘wontedly,‘

or wantonly, driven out of their homes.

Who will attend?  Some wealthy weekenders?

 

Thomas never actually made it here,

although his spirit is ubiquitous.

Pervasive silence invites us to pause,

in the name of Poetry and Beauty,

before all clocks are permanently stopped

and there are no more birds in Gloucestershire.

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy Easter!

21 Sunday Apr 2019

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Christian persecution, Easter, Easter garden, Sri Lanka

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Thoughts and prayers for all affected by the Sri Lankan attack earlier today.  Our happiness is mingled with grief and outrage at the inhumane treatment of our fellow human beings.  Father forgive them, for they know not what they do…

Photo by Candia

 

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Posted by Candia | Filed under Community, News, Personal, Photography, Religion, Social Comment

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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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