tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14586625636390722802024-03-05T18:15:50.788-08:00Silence SoundingSilentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-61794345669219790612017-03-29T21:20:00.000-07:002017-03-29T21:20:23.330-07:00Silent Contemplation at the Art Gallery<br />
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I love the sense of an art gallery as a place of serene contemplation and recall Plotinus refusing to have his portrait created saying 'why create the image of an image?'</div>
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Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-23243012385623284282016-01-04T17:16:00.002-08:002016-01-04T17:16:45.047-08:00The Art of Silence before the Mystery - a reflection for Epiphany<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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brings life into focus.<span> </span>Some of you here
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tasted the flavours of this art. It can be sophisticated or simple and it requires
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teach at a city centre for people experiencing homelessness and marginalisation and I have a group of older people who are
experiencing forms of homelessness. Many of them feel pain, stress, anxiety and
grief and while the art form that I teach is not a magic wand it does enable
some of them to find the way and to find a better nights sleep or to go to the
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simply call it the <span style="color: red;">art of silence</span>. I will call it the art of being present and
paying attention. It is an art because the world in which we live is training
us to be distracted and amused to death. I call it the art of silence before
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perhaps too well to notice just how subversive it seeks to be. It's a story
that invites us to take part. There is no mention of three Magi, no mention of
camels no mention of a manger. The house in Bethlehem could be any house
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and asked 'where and why' as wise as Socrates. He wandered ancient Athens
asking supposedly knowledgeable people as well as artisans and army generals
where and why and came to the conclusion that wisdom consisting as knowing how
little he knew and that while a person could define the questions eventually
when it came to discussions of love, death or courage words would give out.
Then the art of silence in the mystery begins.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I teach my students simply to practice being present to
breathing, to their body, to their thoughts and to observe these as if they
were watching over a tiny new born baby. Distractions will arise along the path
but it's all about following the star of silence until the seeker arrives at a
sense of being at home with silence and learns to fine tune making choices that
serve them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notice in the story the three gifts of gold, frankincense
and myrrh. Gold needs no explanation, incense offered to the gods or Roman
Emperor, and myrrh to embalm the body of a ruler. I suggest to you that these
are to one extent or another the burdens we carry. The gold of possessions that
we can use to define us, the frankincense of status and what others think of
us, the desire to be 'on trend' and the myrrh which is the fear and avoidance
of our death and the knowledge that within a few years we will be all but
forgotten. The art of silence helps us to release our often tight grip on these
things, to become more detached and to discover the real treasure. All the best
things in life after all are not things but qualities. This is the real
subversion that the art of silence in the mystery brings.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I see the wise seekers simply being and sitting in the
presence of the child watching and waiting, paying attention conscious that
they are in the presence of great mystery. Earlier today I sat with a member of
this community in intensive care keeping them company, holding their hand. What
can be more precious than this silent a compliment. These fragile moments come
and go. Only a breath holds us this side of life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silence in the presence of the Mystery of it all can be a
single conscious breath, a sip of coffee, an hour on the meditation cushion,
worship in church anything that takes us deeper into the amazement and
appreciation that opens our heart wider.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The art of silence being in the presence of the mystery
is at the heart of all authentic philosophies and religions. Sadly often we
have given the impression to the wider world that you have to rush around busy
the whole time and feel endlessly guilty. To me the essence of faith is silent
contemplation and then doing a few things to try and make the world slightly
more bearable.</span></span></span></div>
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practice the art of silence, you don't have to know lots of things and you
don't need other people. Teachers only point the way and sometimes those you
think are wise are not wise at all. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The star is your question 'where' and 'why'. Try it,
simply be present to the mystery. The mystery of your aliveness, the mystery of
love, the mystery of the universe, the mystery of suffering, the weird<span> </span>strangeness of your conscious existence. Why
not make the most of this beautiful art of silence in the presence. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our lives are like the blink of an eye compared to a
star. Why waste these precious moments. The art of silence, being still before
the mystery and strangeness calls to each of us. Find the space, lose your
busyness, notice the ways you distract yourself?</span></span></span></div>
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by unfolding moment. The star now is within leading us further up and further
in beyond the words, beyond our Herod like desire to control, releasing us to
live moment by moment in the silent presence of mystery.</span></span></span></div>
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Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-62656450163528584562015-06-25T20:20:00.000-07:002015-06-25T20:20:17.288-07:00In the midstF<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">or many years I would stand at a lecturn and address the congregation with these words:</span><br />
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'In the midst of life we are in death' 'media vita in morte summus' written about 750 AD in France and sung as an antiphon and then taken into Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. It resonates for every age as an invitation to faith and trust.<br />
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For me it's become 'in the midst of death we are in life'. You and I have a fleeting span of existence a momentary flash of consciousness and so this inversion focuses life in the here and now rather than colonizing life life as a brief interlude for the here after. Life now is enough and so for myself I have no desire for an afterlife. I cherish the experience that 'this is it' How wonderful and incredible this 'it'.<br />
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In the midst of Thanatos we are in 'Eros' and invited to live and love with open handsSilentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-56163904734692938242014-12-22T19:43:00.000-08:002014-12-22T19:43:05.145-08:00Beyond Interlaken Switzerland<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Beyond Interlaken<br />
<br />
Swirling clouds are prayers to the sublime. Water white from recent
familiarity with glacial slopes plays with river rocks. Cows with
discordant bells move at the speed of grass under mountains clothed with
a chasuble of autumn ochres woven so finely. For a moment the tulle of
clouds parts to reveal far peaks of brilliant white. The ultramarine
lake is gently patterned stroked by the breeze. The church clock intones
an invitation and we walk back to the train past wooden houses with
finely carved Bible verse and brilliant displays of red geraniums.<br />
<br />
There are dragon tracks here, between silver rails, the teeth of the
rack railway and the scent of oil mixes with the piquant aroma of cow.
Tiny trains climb improbable gradients. I look through the oil smeared
rainbow of a window, into the cab of an old box square locomotive of
riveted iron and wood to a shelf of brass and wood, dials and
handles. A sleeping dragon with her pantograph wings folded, away from
the fire, resting under the shingled roof of worn sheds roofline shaped
by the winter snow roosting there each year. Heaped stone ballast and
the sharp blade of the snow plough reminders that these rich green
fields and town prepare for the blizzard of snow where the mountain
reaches down to invite these pastures to dance the dance of silent snow.<br />
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On the street great balls of sculptured stone, overhead water falling
vertically from a high crag crossed by the horizontal movement of the
yellow Post Bus. Angles of buildings an essence of Swiss.<br />
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To me a visitor this scene is impossible. Its as if various old
photographs and tea towels brought home from holidays by my grandparents
had been stitched together and the tiny clock with its dangling
weights and little roof had suddenly magically expanded into a house
before my eyes, the church bell and mechanical clock alongside the sun
driven clock adding verisimilitude. Then that moment passes and I am
here now, not that wide eyed boy in shorts who thought that a clock that
went to 17 might be possible since 17 was his special number. Twelve
is so conventional and confining after all. That boy like this man
scents a wild time that runs away joyously.<br />
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The train, at this distance a toy in a shop window, traversing the slope
each carriage containing a satchel of stories moving between light and
shadow inviting me to ride. As I turn, do I catch a glimpse of the mad
philosopher's improbable mustache warning me that without the rack rail
of a wider vision I may attempt too much. My inner wild dragon must rest
as well as play. At this moment I feel for his solitary striving and
yearning and once again am grateful for this family with whom I travel
in experiences of travel.</span></span></span><br />
Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-30138384863850997102014-12-22T19:40:00.001-08:002014-12-22T19:40:21.656-08:00Running the Cumbrian fells<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Slipping on my dark blue running gear is like reacquainting myself with
old friends. I slip on socks and tightly lace my running shoes feeling
the tightness and the tug. It's been too long but somehow my mind and
body has ached for this movement, for the pull of the heart and the
rhythm of the breath.<br />
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After feeling the bolt of the farm gate release behind me I pull down my
well fitting lightweight running hat and open my stride and after a few
moments it's seems that brakes have begun to ease off and a new energy
and looseness flowers through my body from the sway of my arms and the
gentle cantilever of my backbone awake within me<br />
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I tell myself that it feels good and so it does, this getting out of my
constantly turning mind and into nature, into my body. There is an
intimacy with the air and earth, the senses sharpen and boundaries
become porous. Running gear feels like running unclad and the lightness
of a run lifts one into a series of temporary flights over the earth, a
slight jump over a mountain beck much attenuated at the end of summer.<br />
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I close my mouth to avoid the clouds of midges and experience one in the
eye which I blink away. I weave past a craftsman repairing a stone
wall. As I run along the wall a slow measured retrieval of a jagged lump
of Lakeland slate slotted into place now become woven into a regular
pattern, embracing its neighbour it's very unsymmetrical shape an asset
into binding together this structure to survive winters and summers and
hold animals in their allotted place. Part of me wants to stop and
exchange a few words but I am urged on.<br />
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It's like a kind of inner steam engine with the breath the energy that
rings feet and legs into an oppositional harmony of motion and balance
and pulls in more of me as I seek a relaxed run erect enough to provide
an internal spring within.<br />
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This is wild and I am in wild, an ecstatic experience of flow in a body
in motion but yet in time a temporary sojourner to these massive
mountains overhead and to these young oak woodlands beginning to
surrender summer leaves. I feel chipped slate underfoot, the softness of
boggy mud, I slow to negotiate rocks since a twisted ankle is not an
ambition and slow to walk down a steep rocky slope as I feel my heart
loosen from a canter to a trot and to a walk.<br />
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The sun sparkles from the river running also between rocks it's path as
twisty as mine, birdsong from the woodland, the flash of a magpie with
long blue black tail tangents before my gaze. I'm hot and sticky yet
feeling the surge of wildness even as the body tires. Up an incline and
down the other side, joining a track, crossing the river by an arched
bridge and moving into the next village passing walkers with a brief
greeting. At the end of the day few walkers and they all seems to be
birds flying to their over night roosts with their Ordinance Survey
routes now turned into stories and images for discussion and
recollection during winter evenings.<br />
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It's a beautiful sunny warm autumn day and here I am my body being
possessed and possessing this run experience. Through the farm and white
painted buildings and then I turn onto the road. I'm less familiar with
this part of the journey and have to cross and recross the road to be
careful of the traffic. There are more pauses for walking now and less
of running as I begin to think ahead, keen to arrive back at the 17 th
century Borrowdale farmhouse from which I began.<br />
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Then nearing my destination a moment of grace as I meet a red squirrel
sunning herself on a branch before my eyes. She waves her tufty tail as
if to rebuke those grey squirrels from America who have exiled the few
of her kind to this narrow valley and runs vertically up the tree as if
to tell me that my horizontal movement is too easy.<br />
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My body that began this run, the first for many many months although
there have been fast and hard walks and short sprints, that felt light
and young now seems to be a burden, a bumping bag of body, and I can
trot slowly to the double bridges than span the river and lead me back
to the village of Grange.<br />
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The body and mind are stilled in movement, the mind drawn away from its
chatter this endless turning over of the soil in conversation. The
rhythm of the breath and the focus on the journey brings the runner,
since I'm not even conscious of myself as a self into the flow of
moments the only decision to live within the constraints of heart rate
breath and strength. This is a silence that refreshes as much as it
tires.<br />
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This is 55 minutes of an experience I would not have missed for the
world and about 5 miles and in a boast to myself I fire up the body and
sprint for home pouring out my breath in pants and feeling my heart rate
soar until I slow, warm down, enter the house and begin stretching out
this run. Shedding this light skin of running gear I feel the warm water
of the shower strip away the grime of this journey and later I feel my
aching bones and body with a warm affection. I feel alive right now and
feel released.</span></span></span><br />
Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-54873454049767194232014-12-22T19:36:00.000-08:002014-12-22T19:36:02.741-08:00fragments of a Mary Oliver poem<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-7302649552476044762014-12-22T19:33:00.002-08:002014-12-22T19:33:16.042-08:00Ancient Stones in Cumbria<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ancient stones<br />
<br />
There is no sign, no board to inform but only an ancient circle of
stones. Easy to drive by, easy to shrug off as people so used to the
machine and to buildings that make us feel small or lift us high in the
sky.<br />
<br />
These stones are silent now, the subject of scholarly conjecture but
they serve us visitors as a marker for memory. Half in jest and half in
wild desire I remove my shirt feeling the keen wind kiss me gently and
eddy past as I move clockwise in respect since every human sacred site
demands this direction, touching the pebble I carry in my pocket this
holiday and which I have touched other stones, other churches, other
shrines and my fathers grave, against these stones.<br />
<br />
Leaving them they lean into the turning earth upright like a hand of
love accepting me as a distant grandchild of a client people. This is a
tribal place with room for me and I am grateful and half naked half born
between worlds.<br />
<br />
Thank you stones may you stand here another 5,000 years assembled in
this place as silent witnesses to people who saw greater horizons.</span></span><br />
Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-84736647823514350312014-11-05T19:12:00.001-08:002014-11-05T19:12:17.283-08:00taste of travel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span></b><br />
Winding out of Bath in fog, tree fingers seeming to stir the swirling vapour,
to Shaftsbury where in the fog I'm transported back to my love of Hardy novels
where characters encounter new truths amidst mists. The taste of black sausage at breakfast </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">does not confirm a memory. It's
pleasant, almost biscuit like experience amid a delicious breakfast well earned after
cleaning the flat this morning but the tang of coffee allures. So many years
ago did I like coffee? Yes but not that much. Am I yearning for an unchanging self
but then there would not be room for growth. I am eating black pudding as a
visitor and not as something I eat, or could choose to eat as part of my
everyday diet. Here is a dialogue between selves and memories the interwoven layered self framed in beliefs about past, present, identity and future.<br />
<br />
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> At Bovington I recognize firstly the names surrounded in red for Ministry
of Defence, once I belonged to this family and had a place within its hierarchy. We pass the HIVE and I remember how
these places came to existence in 1990 in the lead up to the Gulf War for
service families. The crack of gunfire and the shape of tanks and the grey
green of NATO establishments, that sense of impending war and living with the
threat of attack.<br />
</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some take me back to a boyhood of AIRFIX models as my fingers hold a memory of
glue and carefully placing the gun of a Sherman and Lee Grant or Churchill in
its plastic turret. Then in the tank Museum ( I always wanted to go there as a
boy but it was too far away when I could not drive) I confront a shape that
arcs across my memory and my feeling. These are figures in respirators and NBC suits
and my body remembers the smell and feel of those suits, the rubber encounter
on my face, my fingers recall changing the canister in the tear has filled room
as we carried out <i>'buddy buddy checks'</i> and the old Cold War is present once
again. Once again the Air Force which often I dream about returns to front of
consciousness, appearing from the mist of the mind.<br />
<br />
Later in the Pub at Bosham with the taste of English Cod in my mouth I recall that it
was in this pub that on the day before my 18th birthday I was challenged here
as I bought beer. Was I served or not, I can't remember and I must have been
with Frank and Paul after Mass or a visit to the church to light a candle to our Lady of Walsingham.<br />
<br />
Again and again, as memories telescope in familiar landscape here in West
Sussex where I grew from a boy with endless dreams and fantasies, castles of
the mind, to the war of secondary school, the illness of dad and his spiral
into death, being found by God, the embrace of religion but also the outer
landscape of boats and birds, grey skies and ploughed fields, cycle rides and
friendships, that sense of a long history of which I was a part. The colour of
trees the shape of roof lines, fences and doorways suggest the dreamlike and
misty nature of memory.</span></span></span><br />
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space and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially I am chilled
but soon warm in the hazy early morning light of Bath. I feel the pull and push of the body climbing and
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I let my eyes run across lines and angles. I notice the
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house, a window with a classical arch. Stopping to look I notice sameness and
variety and how another street carries the theme yet changes the design. Those
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The predominant stonework provides a canvas for a still life of shapes and forms, flowers and stationary cars yet suddenly interrupted by the long curving sweep of a bright dress as a young woman cuts
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deter pigeons and gulls. Then almost by accident to the old Green Square
station of the Somerset and Dorset railway, a beautifully proportioned face to the
square and then through walkways to see the curve of the canopy that once
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my great grandfather, probably with too much loyalty to his community living in
Glastonbury bought shares in. I doubt if there was ever a dividend. Yet it's
satisfying to walk along the tracks of the old trains across the bridge and to
imagine the excited echoes of children and adults crossing the land for summer holiday
specials. The curve of the train canopy now enclosing a market is most
satisfying. It's a kind of birthing chamber and not just a place to protect
travelers. Here is an enclosure, yet one that is glass a cathedral from which
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Queen square and try and remember the name of the priest I met at St Stephens
House who went to serve his title there. Now the church is closed down but
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the city intertwining with river. Arches of bridges and straight lines of the
old railway bridge. Then the uneven path along the river beside narrow boats
some humming with life to power the generator others paint peeling and up for
sale. Old bicycles, black plastic bags filled with who knows what, a shrine with
flowers by the bank to someone who perhaps drowned there or worse. It's not a
bank of the river I would like to frequent at night.</span></span></div>
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poorer community. I step into the road to navigate past a group of people
waiting for the Baptist community centre to open and steady steams of people
part to make space for the Big Issue seller and his dog.</span></span></div>
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others low like the river and others enclosed by the old Kennet and Avon
navigation with locks like doorways inviting another kind of travel a path of
water. Other horizons are high houses, church steeples and the St George's flag
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electrical storm and slanting sheets of rain and under street lamps the regular
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">Cups fly in formation across this Bosham cottage wall</span></i></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A reflection from a stay at Bosham in West Sussex September 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I step out into the night diving into darkness from the
pool of light from this ancient house well rooted in earth on this rough track
that extends like a stream of stone into this tilled field where in daylight
rooks caw their ownership. The night sky full of stars covered with the light
mist of human light from southern cities yet stars still strive for attention, the
philosophical gaze of wonder, humility and appreciation, the taken and released
breath of appreciation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I feel my body take on the rhythm of the walk on deserted
roadways conscious of shadows of fences and hedges, homes and cars. Autumn
perfumes of trees and plants greet my passing, honeysuckle like the glimpsed
perfume of an elegant older lady passing by.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I notice my breathing deepen and my body shifts to lift
my feet higher to avoid tripping. I sense a kind of smudge about my body as if
I am swimming yet blending with this warm darkness, that I can release into
this flow of eddying moments of time.</span></span></div>
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casting pools of radiance across the space where ways converge and part. Beyond
this point there is only darkness and I suspect this is a dark night village.
Lights of cyclists arrive silently followed by hazy shapes of riders. On homes
tiny red and green lights show to deter thieves. Squares of brightly etched
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These cottages which have stood here while generations
have come and gone escorting the trackway which has no official conclusion
since the tides which rise and fall like the breathing of an ancient creature
provide the demarcation. Tonight at low tide a calm which magnifies a laugh
from some distance away, the cry of a bird. The calm water reflected by stars
is like a bowl of water utterly still holding all around it in stillness. The
pungency of weed and pools of salt water remind me that this is a harbour where
sailing boats laze on the mudflats or stand like sleeping horses on blankets of
shadow. This water which seems to this bystander motionless, is a distant
relative of the sea at which it does it's bidding each day like an old family
retainer still entrusted with greeting guests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I return, my steps echoing where the houses become
coterminous with the narrow path, I turn now switching on a modest torch to
prevent my tripping and into this narrow beam of light my feet appear one by
one like fish darting forward for food. The tone changes on reaching the lane
and now looking up through shaggy hedgerow reaching above me the stars are
framed anew.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>sea, steel and wood in an aging alchemy</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stopping I hear a passing rhythmic train, the distant
tongue of traffic and tracing a path through the stars an aircraft far above
heads to its destination descending from dark skies to the arc lights of its
terminal. So far away it's as silent as a glider or the wing of an owl wheeling
above to survey the rook tended rows of this field. The slap of shoes on
pavement now crunch on gravel as if I stood on the shingled shore now two miles
distant. Perhaps the beach followed me home, hiding in the shadows. I bid it
goodnight. Taking a breath with mouth opened wide and lifting arms to the skies
arching my back in animal like stretch I prepare to be embraced by the lit
house, the hum of conversation and the tang of tea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Water dripping from trees, hanging like pearls on
foxgloves by the path. The tapping of water dripping on my hat reminds me of
being in a canvas tent. Watery mud squelches under foot a full unfolding
movement of sound as foot lands and rolls and is removed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The soft and rich and regular soft sound of waves lapping
on the the steeply shelving pebble beach of this lake. Far beneath no doubt is
the path of a beck that ran steeply down the valley past houses and carefully
stone walled fields. Now the rain runs down the ends of stone walls that have
been severed long ago that reach no where. The wound poulticed by moss. Water
and wind in pine trees and blowing through the air to touch my face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Each beck along the winding path by the lake is perceived
as a distant music and when we reach the water held by the banks and shielded
by bracken and fern a complex symphony of sound. If we had ears to hear each
beck experienced as flowing water would sound unique since the fall and amount
of sparkling water, the shape of bank, the shielding of bracken and the exact
arrangement of granite pebbles would announce its signature. The amount of
water at any moment must also vary offering mysteriously even more of a musical
signature. The ear is too untrained to hear much more than a constant roar,
akin to white noise as moment by moment in unrepeatable time this repository
for much of northern England's drinking water is replenished. Beauty and
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I look out on a white expanse of water stopped and
rippled by wind and rain bounded by the sturdy walls of the dam and the
castellated walls of the the pump house and the tower that houses other
machinery I wonder at the tiny Lakeland streams that will flow from taps in
homes large and small. Will those who bless, fill and take this holy communion
be touched by the sheer improbability of it all?</span></span></div>
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running traffic. Under the concrete bridge arching overhead the remains of a
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flirts with the weaving river singing her watery songs ignoring the proud
highway that rushes by. This track is about waiting and movement as trains
moved and gave way to each other on this single track we now pause to open
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<br />Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-75851964179073331752014-10-25T19:24:00.001-07:002014-10-25T19:25:03.017-07:00Walking Poets, Wordsworth and Basho at Grasmere September 2014<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Stationary in this car park with rain falling like
curtains of gossamer on this autumn Cumbrian Sunday. The bell of Grasmere
Church where pilgrims come to venerate the graves of William and Dorothy chimes
across the fields of bright grass intersected by jigsaws of stone walls with
their mantle of lichen. The rain beats against the window as we step over
puddles towards the grey buildings with their grey slate roofs, the home of the
Wordsworth Trust and Dove Cottage in England's Lake District.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above the door a sign for the exhibition,
'Walking Poets, Wordsworth and Basho.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">I have been here before, but never like this. At the age
of 17 my imagination was ignited by Wordsworth's <b><i>'Prelude'</i></b> and it's
descriptions of this sense of the Presence of great mystery, something that I
too was experiencing discovered in nature and in daily life, this great
luminosity, this sense of being in the Divine Love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Then Basho discovered three years later as a University
Student then as now drawn by Zen Buddhism. I was drawn by this 17century prose
and hokku poetry account<b><i> 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'</i></b>. I note that this is also the title of Richard Flanagan's Man Booker novel which I look forward to discovering. Matsuo
Basho like Wordworth is an extraordinary walking poet holds for Japanese people the
stature of a Shakespeare or Chaucer as well as being a strong influence on
Modernist poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are times just
for myself when I compose haiku poems to capture and express an experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">I have been here before, we have been to this place
visiting Dove Cottage, the home of Dorothy and William where they welcomed
Coleridge and others and have sat in meditation in Kyoto temples visited by
Basho but we have never been here before in the sense of two visionaries
brought into dialogue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;">Walking around the galleries we contemplated letters and
texts by Wordsworth and his friends and manuscripts and drawings by Basho
together with many contemporary art works, interpretations, installations and
music inspired by a literary dialogue between the two poets separated by a
century, by culture, by geographical distance. Soon the exhibition was filled
by many Japanese visitors and others and we flowed around each other making our
own discoveries at this encounter, this imaginary dialogue, worlds brought
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walking poets a homesickness and a longing. Basho calling himself a weather
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blowing through his heart. His poetry does not resile from the ugliness of life
or of the bloodshed and death in the uneasy peace of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>17 th century Japan already experiencing visitors
from the west. Wordsworth and Coleridge moved by injustice and wanting to awake
citizens not to a narrow world denying religion, not to sentimentalism but to a
generous affirming spirituality, promoting not pessimism, but courage and
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have been to a good church service, discovering, contemplating, conversing and
re imagining. I'm seeing afresh beyond the superficial which is where faith and
spirituality begin and return to be refreshed at the well so that as I walk my
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fear, that feeding on opinion, that participating in our national conversation
of meanness and resentment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
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The curtain of rain opens momentarily, and amid the stippled surface of
the living river I glimpse you the only stationary, still and silent
presence in this theatre of water surveying the ever changing boundaries
of your Kingdom.<br />
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My movement may have released you from your task for like an arrow
exploding into movement released from the bow like stick now swaying
with emptiness you take an electric blue trajectory across the water
suddenly swerving to rest further upstream, the arrow of out reaching
wings withdrawn by your side in repose.<br />
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Kingfisher you are an elusive monarch on whom few human eyes may rest
these days in a noisy well frequented Lake District. Yet beyond my
sharply drawn breath a silence is released within me to join with the
spirit of this serpentine river now singing to the drumbeat of the
stinging rain as it shapes this autumn torrent.<br />
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</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soon I will draw apart on my own chosen trajectory but if you look into
my eyes there may still be a track of electric Kingfisher blue seen when
my soul is silent in the </span></span><br />
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again.</span></span>Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-1797514743418903942014-10-22T23:24:00.002-07:002014-10-25T19:12:33.016-07:00Geese seen from Borrowdale<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This cool autumn morning, the white painted walls of this farmhouse seem
to be sinking into the rich soil, weighed down by three centuries of
human stories and by an invitation to be still beside the mirror like
water of this beck winding between shoals of pebbles.</span></span><br />
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The sun has cut the mountains into sharp patterns and the shadows
suggest a breathing landscape. Against the pale bright blue sky suddenly
breaking the silence, a skein of geese so high in the sky that they are
like a pencil line drawn on virgin paper.I think of an invisible hand sketching them them as they cross my
vision, this conceit seems satisfying. Their wild echo around the open
hands of the valley reminding me of my smallness against the
extravagant extent of their flying formation flung across empty sky.</span></span><br />
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add to its wildness and emptiness. Surrounding cultivation and earth
bound walkers is a wildness which these exultant geese define for me a
visitor, a transient in this place but generally in life</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am suddenly more energized and the weight of sleep seems to slide from
my shoulders bleary eyes clear again. These geese cross my vision like
the blink of a great eye.</span></span></div>
Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-19413167741860462462014-10-22T23:01:00.000-07:002014-10-22T23:01:12.561-07:00Silent places<a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2014/09/10/austin-smith-lord-carmelite-monastery-liverpool-brick/">http://www.dezeen.com/2014/09/10/austin-smith-lord-carmelite-monastery-liverpool-brick/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow this link to a beautiful slideshow about the new Carmelite monastery in Liverpool UK. It seems to be a building that is crafted to cultivate an inner silence of the heart in an austere beautiful and timeless way. I hope the nuns as they create this new community in a new building which preserves an enclosure but is open and welcoming to guests find blessing and encounter with the way of silent Love.</span><br />
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<br />Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-76059559787817014582014-01-25T18:33:00.001-08:002014-01-25T18:33:26.019-08:00Silence is a coming back to oneself<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-39147683567656415252014-01-23T16:17:00.001-08:002014-01-23T16:17:15.330-08:00The scent of silenceThe past week saw temperatures over 40 c all week and in the church carpark 48c. Here the heat is very dry and one becomes wet with perspiration on entering an air conditioned building. Moving through the heat feels like slow motion taking care with breathing and movement.<br />
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Journey from Queanbeyan to Canberra July 2013</span></span></span></div>
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station hands in pockets, geometry of rail lines and point rodding. The locked
toilets and well maintained brickwork of the station with waiting room opened
mysteriously for no staff in sight. Train snakes into the platform and into the
warm of the railcar. Plenty of room in my seat to spread out and unwind scarf
and slowly pull off my woollen gloves as they resist my touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I</span>’<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">m entranced by swirling mist along Molonglo valley, through
cuttings of solid rock along ledge above the rapidly flowing river. There are piles
of termite eaten old telephone poles in strange geometric patterns lying alongside
this uneven track. Our train slows as kangaroos leap fence and the horn sounds,
breaking into sunlight by the huge military communications base. Meal ticket
for a hot lunch as train gathers speed. The distinctive movement of train
wheels on track and the shadows of trees across windows. A series of tunnels
with brick porticos and stygian black with sudden reflections back into the
carriage suddenly transformed to winter sunlight. Tight curves and freshly
painted white marker posts. From cuttings to high embankments as the train
descends I to the valley of Bungendore. The intersecting v of the Captains</span>’<span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> flat line and an old signal with exposed washed away
ballasted wooden sleepers and the rail removed for a few metres to prevent any
possibility of a connection even by accident with this branch line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Slowing
into the Bungendore loop and into the platform, blue station signs against dark
red brickwork and the traditional serrated platform canopy edge with cast
supporting pillars.. Here telephone posts now unlined stand alongside , some
leaning at an angle with a supporting wire guy rope. Some are grey fragile
looking wood and others on old rails with small white telephone isolating caps.
Currawongs and Ravens find these useful purchases from which to survey the
landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some like old soldiers have fallen
twisted to the ground and others have arms twisted in different directions,
pointing wildly like spirit crazed prophets We gather speed as the traction
motors increase their tempo. In the siding I noticed that the rails were not
welded, held by fishplates with expansion gaps. Alongside the line occasionally
a line of old wooden sleepers much eroded lies alongside the track like a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Grey
sheep against sparse winter upland grass, creeks full of water with willows
alongside, the water dark and still. Rocky outcrops of broken stone, they seem
to rise above the ground like the backs of whales surfacing for air. Grey sheep
sprint away from the now speeding train against the clear resigned voice of the
female announcer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The train speeds and
slows according to the need to traverse quite marked curved. Occasional mobile
calls and slightly raised voices and the excited voices of the mother and eager
interested young children in the seat alongside me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we move across a valley over the
embankment a burst of wind blows diesel fumes alongside as we come to a signal
stop perched above a dry creek bed. A discarded rusty rail is like a snake
alongside the track.</span></span></div>
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meet the lady with the resigned and calm voice who
assures the passengers in a quiet but with quite polite authority for those in
wrong seats or bags in the wrong position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The blue cushioned seats all point forwards and car A with the buffet is
towards the rear of the train. Just like travelling by air a safety card, menu
and magazine are in the net pocket. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">At Tarago
the sun shines again, there are piles of new looking steel sleepers lying
alongside the track as beanie suited travellers board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a reminder no doubt that we are now
on a heavily used freight line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A set of
steps for the low platform is chained with shining chain to brightly painted
brickwork. There is a siding here, the remnant of once was a goods yard and
rail workers in white utes watch us pass as the train climbs above the valley.
The variegated harmony of train noises. brings back so memories for me. I
recollect journeys across the Salisbury plain as a boy but these vitas of the
high Monaro plains are different. Cars now travel beside us and slowly as if
with some pride we pass them. The undulating road beside the flat line gives an
odd look as if the cars were in some kind of game with the competing train.
Space opens up as if for a lost station as we travel past the Little Bathurst
tea rooms. Horses looking up, heads high as we pass and horned deeply brown
cattle hardly seem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to notice our
passing. </span></span></div>
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approach the main line with a steel bridge at right angles as with a gentle
curve we circle past a green light to the main line and to double track. We
pass a roundhouse and yard, brightly painted sky blue locomotives and others in
different liveries. As the train pulls away a railway staff member takes down a
wooden destination board. It is many years since I have seen these and remember
well these boards from Britain where kept upright on the platform they were
inserted to announce the route of the next train and the stations where these
stops. Of course these are all electronic boards now. </span></span></div>
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I eat my hot meal served in a cardboard tray to be reused and watch as
countryside changes, we travel through small stations without stopping and
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four movements in this symphony, the first is the endangered branch line to Canberra
surely under the doom of closure, the second the freight line that runs along
half the length with clear intention for upgrade and the third is the well
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Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-87751474795391846092013-05-22T19:33:00.001-07:002013-05-22T19:33:12.753-07:00Songs of windI'm familiar with this place and with these deserted country roads where I will hear a car or truck from a distance. I practice walking, saying the Jesus prayer with eyes closed, opening my left eye, that is the cloudy one for a moment after each prayer like a swimmer breathing after every stroke. This practice keeps me from wandering off the road.<br />
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In this manner of walking I am prevented from hearing with my seeing and my senses become more attuned. Walking I hear the wind passing through a line of pines bordering a home. The wind hisses like an intake of breath but passing into the gum trees on the other side of the road a mix of young trees clothed with leaves and older trees with branches further up with there a different melody. I feel in my body and through my being this melody and the richness in the soundscape.<br />
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There are single notes from a bird, the far off cry of a raven, a brief lorikeet cry, distant cars and the experience of flesh and blood moving through my body sustaining this movement and deep listening.<br />
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The feel of my woolen rosary moving through my left hand, the blink of my eye to check the location and a sense of openness and gratitude to The One in whom I live and move and have my being. I have heard a symphony of silence. I am embraced and the song of my heart drawn into that movement.Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-23650249971528975062013-05-22T19:23:00.003-07:002013-05-22T19:23:49.682-07:00SolitudeThose who like me seek and cultivate solitude are sometimes thought misanthropic. I'm rarely thought this way given my way of life in fact solitude and silence becomes then a way of having 'time out' as if being and becoming we're somehow earned or measured in terms of future creativity<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">In my experience the more I practice silence and solitude the more I'm conscious of my interdependence with other human beings and with this living breathing universe. I'm more conscious of people and situations that draw from me the prayer of compassion and loving kindness. I'm more grateful, more appreciative and more generous in my thinking and later in relationship with people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Crowds or crowding through physical proximity or through emails and immersion in the media or in surfing the net draw me like a moth to a candle. I don't know what it is that draws me, some kind of inner need to feel appreciated or liked or some kind of needing to draw energy from others if that was possible. This over exposure moves me into the illusion of my own independence and importance and my ego seeking to be admired. It also moves me into poor judgement either not conscious of the agendas of others or into a kind of misanthropy and hopelessness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Today after the funeral yesterday after a night of confused sleep and restless dreams I appreciate this aloneness and the gift of space and solitude to pray and reflect. As I walk through the trees and hear birds I breathe. I'm conscious that human beings have walked this land for 20,000 years or more, I'm invited into a new sense of self and of rejoicing in my interdependence.</span>Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-1295999018436154242013-05-05T05:07:00.000-07:002013-05-05T05:07:00.055-07:00Sitting withThis evening it seemed like old times in ministry, late visits to the hospital, sitting alongside a person on the threshold between life here and life beyond. I sit and talk and pray, I cry and sing. Each moment marked by a breath, my breath and that of this beloved person. The noise of the hospital ward seems to recede and the world seems to contact to this small space where the sound of breathing and the seemingly intense click of the wall clock mark the passing of moments. Leaving here the world seems different as I walk to my car several streets away, my tears mingled with the slow spitting rain sipping bitter coffee from a cardboard cup from the hospital vending machine as a kind of communion. Laughing young women in pretty dresses and high heels bring two world together. Their voices sound at first discordant and then hopeful as I cross back over the threshold.Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-26605722197978753282013-05-05T05:00:00.003-07:002013-05-05T05:00:51.312-07:00The full moonWith autumn coming to the Adelaide hills with mist and rain, the turning of leaves on the vine outside the house I felt called to celebrate the recent full moon. It's the autumn moon and in the northern hemisphere this would be the autumn festival or Samhein. The Church placed All Souls here with All Saints to overlay the ambiguity of bonfire lighting, mask making and dancing. In the south it's still Easter and indeed I feel that the turning of the year lacks significant ritual points which I certainly feel within my own soul.<br />
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I'm conscious of the moon since my nightly walk with the dog keeps me in touch with the waxing and the waning, the new moon and the dark moon. So I set my alarm to welcome the rising of the full moon at 0545 with the intent of travelling to a nearby lookout at Windy Point with a view out to sea.<br />
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My plan was foiled by heavy mist over the hills so with a large strong coffee and my Bible I drove to Brighton. Here there were gaps in the clouds and the glorious full moon seemed to dance through the sky, 'sister moon' as St Francis might have said. I felt a deep sense of connectedness and at home in this experience and very open in my heart. I recorded the gentle sound of the waves and the wind and photographed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"> the moon on my phone. It was a time to breathe in silence and then walking along the beach to remember and name people who have died who have touched my life and ministry. There were names that seemed to rise from no where, people I had not thought about for years but they all seemed to gather in that walking time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">Soon there were the sounds of birds, other people appeared jogging or walking or cycling and the light changed as the moon visible over the sea in the west gave way to he rising of brother sun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">I drove home ready for more coffee ready for the autumn season, a sense of lightness within to the hills still shrouded deeply in the mist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);">Come autumn, come gentle rain, come cold, come plants sprouting anew after the fierce summer sun, come the silence of reflection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br /></span>Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-83494530447881575342013-04-18T20:03:00.001-07:002013-04-18T20:03:10.616-07:00<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I heard a presenter yesterday on ABC Radio National discussing the anxiety that pervades our culture and the results that has on our health and well-being. He made the point that our over exposure to the media through newspapers, the internet, news feeds to our smart phone, radio and television add to this anxiety. News is often conveyed and created to distract us and focus our attention and engage us in thought and emotion. News is conveyed in ways that draw us in and engage us with the provider of that news. This makes sense to me and coheres with my own experience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been a news addict for years and in this I follow in my father's footsteps. Like him I'm prone to anxiety and I add to this a sense of inadequacy together with a desire to bring a degree of control to life. This is of course to follow a set of illusions and a set of all habits that do not any more fit the sense of who I have become as someone set free from the illusion of a separate autonomous self. In the past I have given up attention to news and the other ideas and articles that fill newspapers printed and online and discussion and opinion programs that present 'trending ideas'. For the past month I have been on a news 'fast' rather like the 'fast' I have been on for some years from alcohol. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This has a spiritual component for me since I do drink alcohol at Mass but not elsewhere, (in the Uniting Church its grape juice for Communion). If I pick up from conversation information about a significant item that I need to know about from the news I will look that up for prayer and for conversation with others. Then from 'Arts and Letters' and from back editions of the 'Guardian' online and other source I can learn what might enrich me in relationships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a good form of practicing silence and it brings with it a sense of liberation together with a sense of incomprehension that I was so attached to news and had a belief I needed to know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm re reading 'Pessimism' and the author Joshua Foa Dienstag offers the experiment of reading 3 day old newspapers to see how uninterested we become in the passing excitements of the day.</span></span><br />
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<br />Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1458662563639072280.post-58904653657262332592013-03-26T19:20:00.001-07:002013-03-26T19:20:09.822-07:00ListeningYesterday brought participation in a Board Meeting and today another meeting to discuss research ethics. These meetings are like occasions for dancing. When is it right to speak and when be silent? When is the silence a profound listening and when is it a disengagement? When is speech expected and how is that thought communicated in words?<br />
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I am often overwhelmed by listening and this is because there is so much flooding into my brain requiring thought and internal discussion. I think I need to make more space and listen more deeply and adopt more of a no nothing approach than trying to second guess the intention of the speaker or my own values always present.<br />
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Listening is so hard, it is indeed an art as we place ourselves in this space and time seeking to be attuned to the person or the group of people and attuned to oneself.Silentiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17269316230448553766noreply@blogger.com0