Humanity….Taversoe Tuick… In the Garden - Ongoing….PS
by Bernie Bell - 09:35 on 15 January 2024
Humanity…
Sunday morning, the way the world is and the ways of humanity were getting to me. I’d read a piece by Howard Jay Smith in which, among other observations and narratives, he compares the events in the Ukraine now, to those in Eastern Europe under the Nazis.…
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009914652603
I went into thoughts which were/are disturbing – understandable that that would happen – but no less disturbing for that.
Mike and I talked it through – I won’t write about it, as many folk are writing about the world today, the conflicts in the world and how humanity appears to have really lost the plot – though – it’s been happening for thousands of years – hard times/better times – different/similar weapons – different/similar ways of hurting.
Rape has long been used as a weapon of war. A penis, used as a weapon – though a penis can also be the source of new life. That’s humanity – so much potential for harm, and so much potential for good – stemming from the same source.
And what is the deciding factor? Free will. Choice. We choose what we do and what we don't do.
As I have done before, I tried to get a grip on the idea that….. for every hurt there are a thousand kindnesses, in the life of an individual and in the life of the world.
I then went to my computer to find the weekly message from Matthew Manning, as follows….
“There are times when it feels like the world around us is filled with negativity. But we must remember that kindness and generosity are powerful tools to make a difference in our lives and the lives of those around us.
Taking a moment to give a kind word or a helping hand can inspire others to do the same.
Show appreciation, offer support and spread goodwill in any way you can. Let your kindness light up your corner of the world.
It's by pooling together small acts of love that we can make a big impact in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
Wishing you a wonderful week ahead … Matthew”
That man is a marvel – he’s been through his own hard times - knows how the world is/can be – yet he can present such positivity to others whose minds are troubled by life.
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Taversoe Tuick…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/taversoe-tuick/
My tuppenceworth….
“Taversoe Tuick is a strange, unique, intriguing little place. The cairn itself, is a little gem. Getting to it, was very difficult. The land around it, was totally ‘poached’, presumably by cattle. It was a matter of leaping from tussock-to-tussock. This was OK for Mike and I, as we were relatively young and reasonably fit-ish! For anyone less agile, it would have been impossible. Ben-The-Dog just saw it as some kind of obstacle course, climbing up and down among the pot-holes and tussocks, and no doubt wishing he had longer legs!
Back to the cairn. It’s built on two ‘stories’, which is un-usual. It also has an off-shoot – an extra little chamber, lying just outside the main cairn. This is an intriguing little ‘cell’. I wondered was it for some kind of rite-of-passage, or initiation? as in, place someone in there, for maybe a few days, and they’d come out crazy, clear-headed, or both! Other cultures, even very modern societies, today, have isolation tanks. The idea, as far as I can gather, is to cut off all external stimuli, so that the person……goes inside them-self, to their inner world, to ……………….meet them-self. Maybe a similar idea, here? Initiation, through isolation.
We recently attended a seminar at Orkney College, where Julie Gibson ( County Archaeologist) mentioned that there is a small ‘channel’ linking this side-cell, to the main cairn. If noises (!) are made in the side-cell, they can be heard in the main cairn. Is this part of the function of the side-cell? Changing states of consciousness? It’s a small cell, so you’d have to be a small person, to fit in it, or a young person – a teenager?”
As written in this piece…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/05/18/bernie-bell-orkney-walks-with-stories-rousay/
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In the Garden - Ongoing….
The last of the Cotoneaster berries – very welcome food source for the birds when the snow arrived on Sunday!.......
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PS
About half an hour ago – a combination of the snow on the fields, the wind across the fields, and patches of sunshine, made it look like the fields were ‘on fire’ with a white flame!
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