“My fascination with details will I hope never cease. Each object is a miracle.” (Jim Ede, “A Way of Life”, p.35)
Here is something for you to open on a rainy Lockdown afternoon …
https://lighthouseinkettlesyard.com
I produced this book and basic website almost 18 months ago. Since then, there seemed to be no leisure time to develop the project or market it! And still there isn’t. It finds its natural course like the way it was written.
The website describes my book about what it was like to grow up “in the influence of Kettle’s Yard”. It contains a blog and some (rather lengthy) readers’ feedback to plough through; and a link for you to buy it.
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Photo from “A Way of Life” p.75 (1984)
What is inside your own house that you treasure and got so used to, that perhaps you forgot to notice it?
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Kettle’s Yard itself is for the time being closed along with everything else, but you can visit https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/ and take a virtual tour around Jim’s house (look under “Collection” or scroll down to Resources and then “Take a Tour”).
Jim’s spiral at Kettle’s Yard
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And a Dandelion clock for the time of now …
found this on facebook:
Love laughs at locksmiths and at little viruses. Love IS viral – a dandelion in a field of buttercups. My evolving Co-virus “insight” emerged from the beginning of the crisis, but continues to clarify: a movement towards adjusting overall balance in the bigger picture.
How can a caterpillar’s worldly dirge comprehend … the butterfly inside … which inexorably cracks the chrysalis?
The inner nature of the co-virus is its homeopathic antidote.
The condition is psychological; obsessive collective fear about covid19 causes many more people to fall ill and die of it than would otherwise. The amplified attention and media dirge weaken the physical system into habit-channels of expectation.
From what I have heard, the co-virus signature is an economic one – a depth change to the existing global Economy towards retrieving a real value-standard; a more equally distributed wealth, and the coming forth of our humanity to one another. This great Change initially generates fear, emotional insecurity and stress in relationships.
Then we must turn to face our music, we must reach above and below the pattern of the “fields we know” – reach deeper and higher, reach inward – for an information source which touches and activates our natural resilience.
For this, we are in a general agreement to slow down, value what we notice inside our houses, and take responsibility with our environment. “I” start to see “you” in a different way. In places where difficult issues are confined, this can be hard at first – almost unbearable. And it may take time and commitment to illumine those caverns often rocky and harsh – or confused and crowded. The walking and the lamp are love. What is love? A being-with. Create space for our Self and children to dance in, and respect the other’s. Give room to come and go; to breathe.
What is the antidote, the inmost nature of co-virus? Joy and the creative uplift of love for life and for others – a conscious choice. It is incredibly catching. The songs which keep coming and the way we hear our own – and turn to help each other in crisis – are doing just that.
Knock on door.
“Who’s there?”
“Me.”
“There is no room for two of us.”
Knock on door.
“Who’s there?”
“It is You.”
“Come. We are within.”
Jalal Al DinRumi
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Dancer by Gaudier-Bzreska in Kettle’s Yard
My adventure invites fellow travellers. I am a poet, an artist and a seer. I welcome conversation among the PHILO SOFIA, the lovers of wisdom. See also Aquariel and Gene Keys Diary.
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