Author: bish
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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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Videoconferencing
I’ve just completed chairing our first ever Online Parish Council meeting and gone straight into the second half of a live Facebook concert by my good friend Talis Kimberley… I can’t help thinking she can see me as she sings, like I could see my Councillors during the meeting. Or some of them. More on…
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Leaving the Bubble
Now I have an inkling as to how astronauts prepare for a space walk… Janet has a hospital clinic in Bristol today for bloods, and despite our not leaving the house for the last four plus weeks it seems they really do want her to come in for her routine bloods. So this morning I have…
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Blessings at Ostara
Happy Easter. For the secular, happy egg day. For the spiritual and religious, happy East-er Sun day. My favourite of the modern festivals; a Christian holiday riding on the ancient and most pagan elements. The First Sun-day after the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox… just give all the detail in there some thought.…
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Lockdown
In the quiet of a no car Sunday morning The new dawn Sun still low, white and bright on the horizon painting the world in long golds and greens There is never silence But today the modern world seems far away The blackbird’s liquid melody plays across the lawn uncluttered with the edgy rasp of…
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