You are never too old for Dr. Seuss! So I thought I would share this one - my favourite … Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction [...]

I have oft though of glass and clay as sister arts…today I want to share that thought with you, through the art of Maria Ines Vaerla and some word play from me: Earth Fire Air Water Earth Water Air Fire Sisters Glass and Clay   Together they spiral Together they spin Sisters Glass and Clay [...]

I don’t read enough poetry. Or write enough. Somewhere I have a bit of an anthology loosely titled "of mirrors and mississipi rhyme". Poetry is at once, so big and so small…the dance between the edge and beyond…the visible and invisible. If the world we live in today is described by the thinkers and artists [...]

Today and the last week’s AND has been a thinking about Caterpillar AND Butterfly. Background: I have been playing with the word "AND" for almost a year now. It seems to be the nicest (re-)addition to my vocaluarly, where possible replacing But. For example, what if we centralized AND decentralized the banking sector? That is [...]

A story is like water that you heat for your bath.   It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet and it cleans you!   Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham. We need intermediaries.   A feeling of fullness [...]

edward monkton PS edward monkton is actually the pseudonym of Giles Andreae, well known in the UK as the creator of purple ronnie cartoon…

  Image #1 "Light of Lotus" (c)  Bjarne Eskelund (source) Image #2: "Bees in Lotus Blossom (c) Joy Kelley (source)

Seems to be a Rumi day – to experience "the feeling of joy when sudden disappointment comes is a hard lesson to learn, but I think a very important one. You just never know what might have been on the path had you continued in that direction – happy reading! Joy in Sudden Dissapointment Whatever comes, comes [...]

A story is like water that you heat for your bath.   It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet and it cleans you!  Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham We need intermediaries.  A feeling of fullness comes,  but usually [...]

“Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field — I’ll meet you there.”  – Jalaluddin Rumi