Not a Whit of Difference
26 Sunday Feb 2023
Posted Environment, Humour, Literature, Nature, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Psychology, Satire, Travel
in26 Sunday Feb 2023
Posted Environment, Humour, Literature, Nature, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Psychology, Satire, Travel
in03 Saturday Dec 2022
Posted art, History, Humour, Photography, Psychology, Relationships, Sculpture, Social Comment
in02 Friday Dec 2022
Posted art, Philosophy, Photography, Psychology
inTags
collage, handmaid, humanity, memento mori, skull, Tempus Fugit
01 Thursday Dec 2022
Posted art, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology
in29 Wednesday Jun 2022
Posted Architecture, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Supernatural
inTags
benediction, epiphany, faith, happenstance, labyrinth, peace, prayer, reassurance, revelation, Sapperton, serendipity, St Luke's, stained glass, Ukraine
After I’d walked the churchyard labyrinth and prayed for Ukraine
in its centre, I opened the door of the church and saw this reflection
on the wall.
There was no stained glass window with a representation of a man on
the opposite wall for the sun to shine through. It was not spooky, just
somehow comforting and validating.
14 Thursday Oct 2021
Posted Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Writing
inTags
empathy, Goya, jealousy, Los Caprichos, quennet, rejection, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Goya: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos
black mood patient endurance anguished thoughts
dashed hope
groundless expectation tunnel light silver lining?
suppressed frustration
wry smile forced laughter gnawing jealousy
daily grind
scarce empathy
gritted teeth
voluntary solitude
brittle persona
crushed spirit
low ebb
arrested development
black tunnel anguished grind daily endurance
groundless jealousy?
30 Wednesday Jun 2021
23 Sunday May 2021
Posted Fashion, Humour, Literature, Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Satire, Social Comment, Writing
inI think I wrote this poem based on an entry in The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon,
which was a list of ugly things. I tried to bring it up to date with pet hates of the
20th and 21st century.
Juxtaposing hair
which is unkempt with fine clothes;
a fascinator
on a helmet-like mullet;
hand-made paper spoiled
by spidery handwriting;
low-cut brides kneeling
in front of praying vicars;
presenting logic to the
concrete operational,
who try to pretend
that they understand;
a trout-pout selfie taken
by a narcissist – tramp-stamped,
and no Spring chicken either.
22 Saturday May 2021
Posted Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Social Comment, Writing
inAbout two years ago I was experimenting with using Japanese poetic
frameworks and was trying to paraphrase and utilise poetry from the Tale
of Genji etc, but attempting to re-phrase the little cameos in my own words.
This poem seems to have been left out, so I offer it to you now.
Sometimes you visit,
unexpectedly, a friend
and you stumble on
evidence of graciousness.
No show is put on:
it is their habitual
way of doing things.
It reflects nobility.
Even if you were to spy
on them, you would find
they’d behave in the same way.
they’re true to themselves,
whether they are being watched,
or not. It’s integrity.
21 Friday May 2021
Posted Animals, art, gardens, Humour, mythology, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Sculpture, Supernatural
inTags
christmas ornament, close observation, discovery, happenstance, magic, Sculpture, serendipity, simple pleasure, unicorn, value, worth
Went to a sculpture exhibition this week where some exhibits were tens of
thousands of pounds.
At the end, I wandered into the field where we had parked and saw a table
with plants, which I mistakenly thought might be for sale.
In the bushes beside the table was this little magical object- plastic- attached to
a fir branch which might have been part of an old discarded Xmas tree.
I actually had as much pleasure in serendipitously discovering and
photographing this small talisman, worth about 5p!
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart