Isabel's owl

Been listening to Isabel,

she's just turned 80.

She collects owls.

In fact, she is one.

At the age of seven she decided 

it was unfair that the people in 

the other waiting room 

across the way from her

saw the doctor quicker.

From that day she wanted to stand up for people.

And now I'm listening to her incredible stories.

Gathering her wisdom.

Written in 1802...

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."              
                                                                                                                                                         Thomas Jefferson

Two hundred years later...a generation is becoming homeless.

Tove Jansson's island

Painter, writer, builder..

here.

Aberglasney Series

Aberglasney series available in the shop...

Cephalaria gigantea

Dwelling for a while among giant scabious and skies bluer than I ever dreamed of..

Meconopsis betonicufolia

Himalayan blue poppy, national flower of Bhutan.

No accident that such a mesmerisingly beautiful flower

hails from the tiny kingdom of the happiness index.

Magnolia grandiflora

"As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or 

disturb the colour and fragrance of the flower;

so do the wise move through the world"

From "A Dhammapada for Contemplation"

Translated by Ajahn Munindo

Aruna Publications, 2006

Gift