{"id":1842,"date":"2015-12-21T11:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:31:30","slug":"solstice-solace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Solstice Solace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Banner<\/a>
\nin the deep midwinter we may celebrate these darkest days, and the apparent
\nstanding still of the sun, as a precious time for dreaming
\nand reflecting, of going within. . . .<\/p>\n

\"StabBinding\"<\/p>\n

\"Solstice<\/a>
\n\"**SolsticeTimeBlog1\"<\/a>to really <\/em>see Steve Mallett’s photographs look round here
\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>creativity, mmm there’s a lot of it about, & yet it can be so
\n<\/strong><\/em>easily overlooked or passed by without being acknowledged:
\nso, I salute you – cooks, painters, writers, mothers, dreamers,<\/span>
\n daubers, poets, photographers, printers, performers, vagabonds,<\/span>
\n sewists, fathers, potters, builders, weavers, sculptors, musicians,
\njoiners,<\/span> scientists, bodgers, visionaries, bricoleurs, philosophers,<\/span>
\n designers, doodlers, sketchers, makers, dancers, orators<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

\"TypeWriter<\/em>just<\/span> completed a Winter Writing Week<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/em>free e.course with the Do What You Love
\ncrew,\u00a0<\/span> a fine opportunity to focus on
\nsome writing instead of the many other
\ncompelling & important things that are calling<\/span>…<\/span><\/p>\n

****************************
\nI’ll be keeping an eye out for visionary artist Laurie Anderson’s<\/span>
\n film project Heart of a Dog <\/em>(trailer)<\/a><\/strong>
\n– referencing death, loss and love –
\nSteve Silberman describes it as
\n<\/span>‘an astonishingly original mashup of old and new techniques…<\/span>
\n to probe life’s most challenging lesson:<\/span>
\n how to feel deep sorrow without giving in to despair’<\/span><\/p>\n

**************************************<\/p>\n

have an excellent deep midwinter time,
\nhowever you choose to celebrate it<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

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in the deep midwinter we may celebrate these darkest days, and the apparent standing still of the sun, as a precious time for dreaming and reflecting, of going within. .…<\/p>\n

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many pass our way though they may never be seen or honoured:
\nwhich reminds me, last week I went to pick up Patti Smith…
\n\"M<\/a>
\nat the library – what a delicious mysterious refreshingly
\nunchronological feast of remembrance and tenderness
\nM Train is:\u00a0 a perfect reflection of a marvellous mystic
\n\"TeatimeSunset\"<\/a>
\nseeing things through net curtains and an iPhone
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n