QuartzThere is a much quoted insight gained by Jeremiah when he watched a potter working away making clay pots. This can be encountered in many ways. For a moment though, imagine what it is like to be the clay on a potters wheel. Your centre is hardly moving at all, but travelling outwards the speed […]
In 2019 we spent time every Sunday walking, watching, #SensingSpirituality and noticing the changes in ourselves and environment. For Easter Sunday we had a BBQ on a beach by the river. In 2020 during lockdown we did something similar, but with a few adjustments to be covid safe. This video is probably a good way […]
#SensingSpirituality is not restricted to religon or religious people. There are places which draw you in. ‘Most people, when they stand in an ancient stone circle, can sense the timeless presence of the place… …There is a temptation to be still and to ponder what surrounds you…. …There are ties and bonds between all people […]
It takes a lot of faith to be an artist. Politicians will tell you that you are unnecessary whilst relying on the creative industries to get their message accross. People will ask you what your proper job is, while you fight the preasure to place profit and exploitative working practices above integrity and your vocation. […]
This weaving, by Alison Fair Bixler, is inspired by plants and the Passion (of Christ) “Plants and the passion…dyes from willow, Veronica, hawthorn etc” The BBC radio programme is currently not available, but who knows what you will find if you look in the garden and online! Link to the BBC radio page
Some images and thoughts from people taking part in #Febreflection in 2021 There are more! Find them online using #Febreflection
Beauty is both ordinary, understandable, here – and wonderful, incomprehensible, beyond. What moments make you? Take time out to notice good things. #Febreflection #SensingSpirituality
You think you know water. But how well do you know water? We experience snow, ice, steam, fresh and salt, different tastes. Water can be moving or still. Our experience can be of a silent, but very present mass, or a rapidly changing and noisy waterfall. Water is essential to life on earth, but there […]
Telling stories at the start of February, and thinking about the story of St Brigid. What was the King of Leinster thinking when he was offered the gift of a bride by one of his chieftains? How did he react then she gave away the chieftains sword to a leper in an act of heroic […]
As people send things in to Quartz I’ll be posting them on this blog from time to time. Here are a couple from the first week. More to follow! “The few snowdrops look so small and vulnerable in a threatening world, but they will survive.” Winifred Wilson Alison is working with paper made from recycled […]