My moon on a silver string. Steven Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. “Oh look Johanna, a star, A shooting start!” 10 years ago today I was involved in the greatest theatrical experience of my life to date. Steven Sondheim’s gothic masterpiece of musical theatre ‘Sweeney Todd – the Daemon Barber of Fleet Street at the Concordia Theatre, […]
February
15
“My Silver Springs, my blue green colours flashing”
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My Silver Springs : glimpsing eternal consciousness, feeling freedom and alignment with the universe. “You are joy, looking for a way to express. It’s not just that your purpose is joy; it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. That’s who you are.” ― Esther Hicks I […]
February
10
“I’m the witch. You’re the world!”
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INSPIRATION:ANGELA CARTER THE “THE HIGH SORCERESS, AND BENEVOLENT WITCH QUEEN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.” “OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?” Angela Carter. My favorite author and one of my most treasured storytellers – she always delights me with her fierce, witty, gothic, jaunty tales – in her short stories, and novels are […]
February
09
“Peculiar Passing Moments…”
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“Let the moment go.. Don’t forget it for a moment though” “This too shall pass” an adage indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is […]
January
27
… Accept The INVITATION. Shout to the silver of the full moon ‘Yes!’
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… Accept The INVITATION “shout to the silver of the full moon ‘Yes!” Life is hard. And life is wonderful. “The Invitation” by Oriah Mountain Dreamer is dedicated to a life-changing journey I embarked upon last week. My journey, and this poem are about finding what we need – the inspiration, the intimacy, the courage and […]
January
03
Thought for the Day : We are Stardust, on the shores of a cosmic ocean. Carl Sagan
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Star Stuff “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can because the #cosmos is […]
January
03
“I see the crystal visions…”
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Thoughts, reflections and hopes for 2015 “Now there you go again, you say You want your freedom” A year ago today I boarded a flight to Miami and sailed into the unknown – one of the most important and life changing journeys so far. As I stood on the brink of this journey a year […]
January
01
“You see your gypsy…”
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Inspiration : Fleetwood Mac Live in Boston on Vinyl (1980) “Lightening strikes maybe once maybe twice…” When I think about most Fleetwood Mac songs, and Stevie Nicks’s voice in particular, my mind’s eye conjures windswept swaths of gauzy linen and the black-smoke arabesques of a snuffed candle. It’s heady, spellbinding, lyrical haunting poetry, and it […]
The Velvet Underground 