" Flames have always been at the heart of it all. Flames to sit around and read, a place for conversation. A fire is a magical thing. The...

" I like slow mornings & rainy days and thunderstorms. I like empty bookstores & quiet coffee shops. I like oversized sweatshirts & cosy...

" It is a time of richest sensation: the sights and smells, obviously, and the way its daily varying temperatures makes the skin...

" I will cut adrift - I will sit on pavements and drink coffee - I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim -...

" October is the best month when you live in the woods and maybe when you don't, but I wouldn't know. It's when the trees start to shake...

" Damsons are ripe in early September, at a time when the garden paths are festooned with spiderwebs and the leaves start their slow...

" Summer did come at last and, when it did, it was one of those summers of poems and stories and country pictures, a once-upon-a-time...

" He had the indistinct feeling that the priest's forgiveness was the greatest assault and most tremendous attack he had ever...

" If spring is all about looking forward, and autumn about dying back, summer surely is the present moment: a long, hot now that marks...

" It was a brilliant spring day; the day was radiant. Even the air seemed to have a burr in it, as it touched the treetops; it vibrated,...

" I'm craving silence, the chance to feel my way into the moment" {Katherine May} This deep need for expansive silence. To sit in the...

" ...and then just marvel, be astonished, at any object, movement or scent, finally recognizing - realizing - that there is nothing more...

" Mindfulness means moment to moment, nonjudgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally...

" Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone." {Lin Yutang} I've been listening to the...

" Oh the joy of walking! ...the trance like, swimming, flying through the air; the current of sensations & ideas; & the slow, but fresh...

" Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly, and quietly, and all the...

" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something...

" I will sit by the river's trembling edge and look at the water-lilies, broad and bright, which lit the oak that overhung the edge with...

Winter has arrived and it's freezing! For the first time in years, I've had to skip the daily walk a few times this week. My kids...

Happiest of New Years to you! I had no intention of the radio silence for so long. It's been so hard for me to summon the interest to sit...