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In search of hygge
Going back to what innately draws us as the winter season plays out its pantomime of darkness and severity, we find ourselves recognising the light of ourselves shining back at us across the cosy darkness of our most intimate living spaces, delivered straight out of the eyes of others we hold dear as we embrace the darkness to forge times of warmer glow in communion with family and friends, even strangers that have spontaneously gathered upon these terms of hospitality, conviviality and generally good vibe. The ability to create, cultivate and and sustain the spirit of hygge through the darkest of times is a skill-set we could all use, regardless of our seasonal light-quota. So, what is hygge? Here’s what it is (and I think you’ll like it)… Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art in the living space, Art transformation tool, Christmas, Craft & design, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Life choices, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Photography, Shopping, Travel
Tagged candles, celebration, coping with winter, cosy, darkness, Denmark, fireplace, happiness, heart-warming, hygge, joining with others, koselig, light, magical, Norway, shortest day, winter, winter birdsong
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Of peacocks and dragons…
(..and of suns and moons, of archangels with swords and little silver fish); bizarre as it sounds, these things make up the main substance of the story of my week. As though intent on taking me on a journey that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchy & Beauty, ancient salt routes, Archangel Michael, Arts & Crafts Movement, Broadsword, Chipping Campden, comfort, Cotswolds, cursory tales, dragon lines, dragons, elusive joy, energy grid, Garden Cities, halloween, Kelmscott Manor, ley lines, living with art, Michael & Mary ley line, pagan sites, peacocks, Pre-Raphaelites, protection, sacred sites, silver fish, St Michael & All Saints, Stanton village, stone circles, sun and moon, symbolic journeys, symbols & meaning, tapestries, The Hobbit, The Rollright Stones, The Song of Wandering Aengus, WB Yates, William Morris
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‘Radical Bloomsbury’ and a Charleston pilgrimage
It’s been the best part of two months now since my Bloomsbury pilgrimage (as referred to in my earlier post Fretwork and flamboyance – Brighton Royal Pavilion) and I am only just setting down what this meant to me, perhaps … Continue reading
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