Author: bish
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Someone said, what about the gods? LOL.
I think I have a significant disconnect in my perception of deity(ies) and my Druidry. I certainly view the latter as a verb, and treat it as an active practice without the need for any particular pantheon or “behind the curtain” deity. Therefore, let me relate – as indeed I have done here before – […]
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The Story Tree
The idea of bringing trees into the house at Yule and Christmas began in Germany and was adopted in Britain in the sixteenth century and gained widespread popularity during the reign of Queen Victoria (of the German House of Hanover). It probably harkens back to Christian times, but nowadays is almost entirely secular and celebratory. […]
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Lockdown Remembrance
Well, that went ok. You cannot imagine the number of conversations, video meetings, guidance emails from national and local government, local government associations and British Legion, risk assessments and “informed commentary” we’ve dealt with over the past months… Our parish clerk has kept up to date with the vacillating and often contradictory pronouncements from various […]
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A little rant on “pagan tealights”
Ok, so I guess pagans… we are connected to the natural world in a spiritual sense and find inspiration and communion within the enspirited landscape? It follows really that we don’t litter, we reuse and recycle and all the rest, we honour life and probably in a semi-animist sense we recognise not all that lives […]
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Ritual in Covid times, a Solitary Perspective
This post has been provoked by trying to complete a survey on ritual under Covid-19, and by failing to complete it because of its unwavering bias toward ritual being a community process. I guess often and most likely in mainstream religion they’d be right, but for many in the pagan and Druid traditions (maybe it […]
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Learning Long Exposure
I experimented the other week with some long exposure shots. It’s not something I have done a lot in the past and in doing so I realised I didn’t fully understand all the details of ND filter photography. Still, for the sake of later comparison here are a few shots taken as we walked down […]
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Settling in for the long haul
Morning. Haven’t checked in here for some time. But the clocks have gone back, although only an hour whereas I was hoping for spring 1999… So much has happened, or in fact mostly not happened, over the past eight months… But maybe I’ll be working in here with some photography and waffle again. After all, […]
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Bristol Fashion
As I watch the recent Black Lives Matter events unfold around the world my heart is full with the knowledge that, this time, we may fully address the absurd atrocity of discrimination on the basis of skin tone. There is no racism because there is only one race of humans now on this planet – […]
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Open letter to my MP
Dear Luke Hall MP The government’s failure to adequately address the recent behaviour or Mr Cummings – and worse, the pathetic defence of his behaviour – has risked the collapse of sensible lockdown strategy, and has likely fatally damaged the administration. If he had simply apologised and admitted error, perhaps the matter would have blown […]
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Druidry in a Lockdown
As I type, we are still in the midst of the first ever national lock-in (and pubs certainly don’t factor). Ok, so I’m locked in, and probably you’re locked down; the difference being down to Janet’s extreme vulnerability to the covid-19 virus… I haven’t been off the property in more than six weeks now and […]
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