John Pilgrim

Wayfaring Stranger, betwixt Eboracum, Dunelm and Hookland. Ecotone Explorer. Red Kite Rambler. Producer. Time-slipper. Pan-theist. MD ANT. I am the Sun and Air.

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@fraglast Lovely. Will pop over to have a look.

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David Hedison and Patrica Owens on the set of the Fly
1958

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“Are you bent on reviving forgotten horrors?”

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White heron standing in the rain, by Ohara Koson, 1928

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@HazelbytheCoast I've got three flying owls - does that count?

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Into the Light

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Spes Altera Vitae {Hope of Another Life}, Amsterdam

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@FeargalShiels

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@screwloose1980 I remember being stranded in Sheffield that night due to the floods. I had to stay in student accommodation.

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@mattthesparrow @WiltsBirdClub @NWDLT @SpaceForNature An extraordinary arc of time (millennia ~ back to Neolithic times) and space (continents ~ Africa to Europe).

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BITTER HONEY

“Then a powerful angel appears, with a little book open in his hand which he gives to John: He said to me, ‘Take it and eat it. It will be bitter in your stomach, but sweet like honey in your mouth.’ John is instructed not just to peruse the little book, but to absorb it completely, to make its contents part of himself. Of what value is knowledge if it not a living power in a person's life. Wisdom must be such a living power. The goal is not mere knowledge of the divine: it is actual divinization. But knowledge of the kind contained in the little book is painful to the transitory nature in human beings, and is ‘bitter in the stomach.’ To the same extent however it is bliss to the eternal nature and so ‘sweet in the mouth like honey.’”

RUDOLF STEINER
Art: Albrecht Durer

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July. The strangest of the Summer months. Young swift families racing on new wings along the village street and cub-swallows fluffy on the wires. The month where the wheat and barley blow, the landscape has turned the colour of a lion.

C. Gordon Glover.

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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Swallows at the Pool’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (1934)

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It was 7 years ago today that we lost Peter Firmin; (Oliver Postgate had died 10 years before).
This is to remember them both

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Try an alchemical bath to stay cool as the mercury rises in this hot summer weather

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@Mid_LifeBassist @carol28608 @GroomB

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@carol28608 @GroomB The girls are more goth ~ a bit of a Siouxsie vibe going on.

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Salvador Dalí, The Fallen Angel (1960/1963)
A powerful image where Dali mixes surrealism and symbolism to explore fall and rebellion.