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#adventapertures2025: day 19

I praise you because  you are artist and scientist  in one. When I am somewhat  fearful of your power,  your ability to work miracles  with a set-square, I hear  you murmuring to yourself  in a notation Beethoven  dreamed of but never achieved. You run off your scales of  rain water and sea water, play  theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 19”

gospel 5. be. here. listen.

I AM the leap. I AM the ice cold air you gasp in on take-off.  I AM the muscles which lift you, the limbs which bend, flex and fly free.  I AM the gravity which holds you safe and brings you back down to earth.  I AM the same whether this leap springs from yourContinue reading “gospel 5. be. here. listen.”

adventapertures2019: Sunday 1

I was passionate, filled with longing, I searched far and wide. But the day that the Truthful One found me, I was at home. Lal Ded (a 14th century Kashmiri, translated by Jane Hirshfield)   ‘How can this be?’ If an Archangel appears in my living room speaking of me as the fulfilment of anContinue reading “adventapertures2019: Sunday 1”