Tag Archives: symbolic journeys

Rebirthing

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Helen White

Towards the end of last year, which felt like a giant’s step forward and dusting-down-yawn-stretch in the journey of me, I started on a new painting; had a canvas specially made to the size I wanted, knowing just what I … Continue reading →

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Circles within circles

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Helen White

In yesterday’s biting cold yet predicted sunshine and relative calm sandwiched between two wedges of storm and flood, my husband and I threw warm layers into the car and headed off to Avebury stone circle on ‘a jolly’; that is, … Continue reading →

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Threading light

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Helen White

In late October’s stormy darkness, my family and I carved out a few days in Cornwall, travelling there the day after ‘the big storm’ rampaged across the UK, flattening trees and causing havoc and yet there was also, for me, … Continue reading →

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Unpeeled

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Helen White

I’ve never had a good feeling around limitation in any of its guises; be it the kind that directly undermines the most fundamental of life’s joys or the more subtle variety that takes the form of routine, timetables or commitment. … Continue reading →

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Journey home

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Helen White

Settling back into my writing, this rainy September, I seem to have been waylaid by yet another movie just begging to become the subject of a post and that’s fine, I’m off in the flow and if that’s where the … Continue reading →

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Beautiful simplicity

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Helen White

It came to me on a new wave of understanding, in my bleary-eyed state of awakening this morning, that at the very core of everything that I Am, I am ‘a simplifier’ and even the realisation of this brought new … Continue reading →

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Walking a spiral, feeling in colour: my life with synaesthesia

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Helen White

More than twenty years ago, I tripped upon a word that professed to label a range of sensory experiences that had been my personal “norm” for all of my life. As a young child, I started to suspect it wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Stillness in the midst

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Helen White

Considering words that I could annex to the title of this post (and of my new painting), a quick Google search of “Stillness in the midst of…” came up with “…chaos” and “…turmoil” as the most typical add-ons, although “fragmented light” … Continue reading →

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Lost in Bramshill…2

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Helen White

A tongue in cheek title as a nod to a post I wrote almost two years ago, entitled (you’ve guessed it) ‘Lost in Bramshill‘ because this (much) briefer post is something of an addendum to that one. You see, it … Continue reading →

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Eat Pray Love – an inner journey compared

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Helen White

Its been a while since I reviewed a book although this is no reflection of how many I’ve read of late because, in truth, I am reading more prolifically than ever, sometimes keeping abreast of up to 4 books (fiction … Continue reading →

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