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Good Friday by John Donne

10 Friday Apr 2020

Posted by Candia in Arts, Education, Literature, Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Sculpture

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crucifixion, Good Friday, John Donne, Metaphysical poets, salvation, St Paul’s Cathedral, the cross

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John Donne’s monument in St Paul’s Cathedral ( in his shroud)

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

 

By John Donne
Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this,
The intelligence that moves, devotion is,
And as the other Spheares, by being growne
Subject to forraigne motion, lose their owne,
And being by others hurried every day,
Scarce in a yeare their naturall forme obey:
Pleasure or businesse, so, our Soules admit
For their first mover, and are whirld by it.
Hence is’t, that I am carryed towards the West
This day, when my Soules forme bends toward the East.
There I should see a Sunne, by rising set,
And by that setting endlesse day beget;
But that Christ on this Crosse, did rise and fall,
Sinne had eternally benighted all.
Yet dare I’almost be glad, I do not see
That spectacle of too much weight for mee.
Who sees Gods face, that is selfe life, must dye;
What a death were it then to see God dye?
It made his owne Lieutenant Nature shrinke,
It made his footstoole crack, and the Sunne winke.
Could I behold those hands which span the Poles,
And tune all spheares at once peirc’d with those holes?
Could I behold that endlesse height which is
Zenith to us, and our Antipodes,
Humbled below us? or that blood which is
The seat of all our Soules, if not of his,
Made durt of dust, or that flesh which was worne
By God, for his apparell, rag’d, and torne?
If on these things I durst not looke, durst I
Upon his miserable mother cast mine eye,
Who was Gods partner here, and furnish’d thus
Halfe of that Sacrifice, which ransom’d us?
Though these things, as I ride, be from mine eye,
They’are present yet unto my memory,
For that looks towards them; and thou look’st towards mee,
O Saviour, as thou hang’st upon the tree;
I turne my backe to thee, but to receive
Corrections, till thy mercies bid thee leave.
O thinke mee worth thine anger, punish mee,
Burne off my rusts, and my deformity,
Restore thine Image, so much, by thy grace,
That thou may’st know mee, and I’ll turne my face.
 

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Exhortation

31 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in art, Education, Literature, Personal, Poetry, Religion, Sculpture, Social Comment

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exhortation, love thy neighbour, Scottish Makar, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scottish poet, Ten Commandments, William Dunbar

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William Dunbar 15th century Scottish poet. 

Photo by Stephen C Dickson (Wikimedia)

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

 

To God be humble,

to thy friend be kind

and with thy neighbour, gladly lend and borrow;

his chance tonight,

it may be thine tomorrow.

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Social Distancing (Alpaca style)

27 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in Animals, Education, Humour, Nature, News, Personal, Photography, Relationships

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alpacas, coronavirus, social distancing

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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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You Want Rembrandt – You Got Rembrandt!

19 Thursday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in art, Education, History, mythology, Personal, Photography, Religion

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Ashmolean, portraits, Rembrandt, Young Rembrandt

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From the recent Young Rembrandt Exhibition.  Photos by Candia.

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The Young Rembrandt, Ashmolean

17 Tuesday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in art, Education, Personal

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Ashmolean, influences, Oxford, portraits, Rembrandt

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                        Managed to see this before self-isolation.  So, will post all my

                       photos in groups of 6 or so, in order that you can all see the

                      delights that may not be available now for some time.

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Cirencester’s Banksy

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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Banksy, Cirencester, health advice, street art

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Posted by Candia | Filed under Animals, art, Education, Humour, Photography, Social Comment

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St James the Great, South Leigh

16 Saturday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Bible, Education, History, Personal, Photography, Religion, Social Comment

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Doom, John Wesley, Mary, Oxfordshire, rosary, South Leigh, St James the Great church, wall paintings

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Oxfordshire.  Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.

These were whitewashed and when John Wesley preached here in

his early days, he would not have been able to see them.

Poem to follow- next post.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

15 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Education, gardens, History, Nostalgia, Photography

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Magdalen College, Oxford

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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Sacred Texts from The Weston Library

13 Wednesday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Bible, Education, History, Language, Literature, Personal, Religion, Supernatural, Writing

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Oxford exhibition, sacred texts, Weston Library

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a recent exhibition at The Weston Library, Oxford.

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Montaigne’s Tower

04 Thursday Jul 2019

Posted by Candia in Education, Family, History, Literature, Nostalgia, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Psychology, Social Comment

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Essays, folk wisdom, Montaigne, Montaigne's Tower, Philosophy

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Montaigne's Tower

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart  All Rights Reserved

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears: Michel de

Montaigne

or, as my granny used to admonish:  If ye fear a fear, it’ll come

upon you.

I doubt she had read Montaigne, but folk wisdom is

watered-down philosophy and not always diluted!

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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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