The Bright Spot

29/12/2024

I miss the bright spot.

09/09/2024

This is the first day of the rest of our lives. Somehow it suits to have it backwards.

09/02/2024

Talking to the neighbours geese about the Year of the Dragon.

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11/10/2022

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.” ― Jay Kappraff

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15/07/2022

Not everyone will like you.
Not everyone will agree with the things you say, or do.
Not everyone will understand why you are who you are,
which trials and tribulations made you stronger, weaker, braver.
Not everyone will care enough to look beneath,
peek behind,
Or read between.
That’s ok.
Some people will.
Some people will find you so fascinating that they will delve right into your depths.
Some people will devour your words and commit them to memory,
should they ever need to revisit them again in times of pain.
Some people will crave your company like a flower craves the rain.
Some people will not only appreciate your light but they will reflect it right back.
They will charge you from the soul, like being plugged into the sun.
Those are your people.
Accept no shade from haters my friend, life brings enough of that.
Always seek out the light.

Donna Ashworth,
From ‘The Right Words'

Art by Catherine McMillan, Art

06/07/2022

Crochet sunshades in Alhaurín de la Torre, Spain. We need more of these.

07/06/2022

At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books: To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
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County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill