Venus…..Setting The Stove….‘Earth Logs’…..‘The Burning’……Vote! Vote! Vote!.....
by Bernie Bell - 08:33 on 02 December 2023
Venus…..
This morning, at 5.30 am, Venus was shining so bright that she left a path of light across the sea – and I wondered – is she shining into Bryn Celli Ddu?
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/20/the-irish-connection-among-others/
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Setting The Stove….
There’s something satisfying about setting the stove…
…one match should do it.
Previous stove-ish musings….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/11/10/stove-and-wind-people/
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Everything is a Meditation
Everything is a meditation. Years ago, our next-door neighbours had a little baby. When Mum came home from hospital with Baby, I went round to sit with them whilst Dad went shopping. We chatted while I held the baby, and it was as though the three of us were in a peaceful little bubble. That was a meditation.
When I've been working in the garden, sometimes I just sit and look about me. I am aware of and feel the presence of Life in everything; in every blade of grass, in every shrub, in every singing bird, in the sky and in every cloud.
Even more mundane things such as washing-up can also be a meditation. I put on some music, stand at the sink and wash up whilst looking out at the shrubs full of birds squabbling over the bird feeders, and, again, away into the sky. That is a meditation.
Then there's setting the fire (though I realise that, unfortunately, not so many people get the opportunity to set a fire these days). First I put in the paper, then the small kindling, then the larger kindling and the logs. Each in its order, or it won't flare up satisfactorily when lit. Setting the fire is a meditation.
And so on, and so on. It doesn't have to be in a special place or circumstance, it's just part of life.
LIFE is a meditation.
Live your meditation.
Love your meditation.
Love life.
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‘Earth Logs’…..
https://earthlogs.org/2023/11/29/water-in-unexpected-places-1-atmosphere/
These days, it’s often in un-wanted places…and not in places where it’s wanted. It’s called Climate Change.
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‘The Burning’….
Born in a cottage by an oasis in the vast emptiness,
we precocious children play with matches,
setting our home ablaze.
We grab the extinguisher with blistered hands
but our cousins pry it away
and smash us in the face.
All because they don't believe
in fire.
On first reading I didn’t understand this one. I didn’t ‘get’ the not believing in fire reference – how can someone not believe in fire – it burns?
Then – I made the connection. Tho’ – having said that – all response to art is individual – so I might be barking up the wrong, burning, tree of Climate Change denial.
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Vote! Vote! Vote!.....
Ah, go on go on go on go on go on go onnnnnnn…….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/12/01/ca-awards-2024/
I voted for Nick, The Ness & Swandro - Go Orkney!!!
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Here’s one I made earlier….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/03/25/a-different-kind-of-rock-art-part-fourteen/
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