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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 17, 2020
3 min

In a Monastery Garden

safely surrounded by the old red brick buildings, is a place of peace and reflection, the Cloister garden.

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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 14, 2020
1 min

A spring of health and peace

Guide us with his Love Bring comfort Turn to our Father above We can't keep disrespecting the planet as we do Greedily taking from Mother Na

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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 12, 2020
3 min

Memories of Water

born out of my fascination with water as a flowing, changing but constant holder of memories as it provides the foundation for life

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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 8, 2020
2 min

Fine nights for fish

end the marine theme with a fisherman's prayer. With the state of marine fish populations today, a prayer might hope for other outcomes.

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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 6, 2020
4 min

The Ninth Wave

The Ninth Wave the call of the sea World Oceans Day, Monday 8th June Monday 8th June is World Oceans Day. Wherever we are, whatever we...

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Gordon MacLellan

Jun 3, 2020
4 min

a lost font, a possible discovery?

I’ve passed it a hundred times before….and now my mind is racing

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Gordon MacLellan

May 31, 2020
3 min

a fanfare for bugle

in the clap of wings and the swirling flight of a flock of pigeons, the sudden summer scream of swifts above London rooftops. Beauty is ther

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Gordon MacLellan

May 25, 2020
3 min

Take a walk

I turn my head without knowing why, and in the seconds when this happens, I see a deer moving through the undergrowth. Or a mouse running

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Gordon MacLellan

May 18, 2020
2 min

Sitting among the trees

But I have been considering journeys again. Walking will do that. That is my experience of what happens when I walk a path and find a place

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Gordon MacLellan

May 14, 2020
3 min

Defiant dandelions

a back yard perhaps, a scrap of lawn or a window and a view of next door’s curtains….

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Gordon MacLellan

May 7, 2020
3 min

Summer flowers and strange stories

In May it really feels like summer is shaking off the last of the winter chills and stretching itself into warmth and richness.

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Gordon MacLellan

May 2, 2020
3 min

Ruffled chestnut gentleness

you could get up early and shuffle into your garden in your dressing gown and fluffy slippers sit on a chair... and listen

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 29, 2020
2 min

Dawn Chorus Day

Our bright and sunny spring seems to be returning to a more familiar damp and drizzly season but the beginnings have been made:

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 27, 2020
2 min

Tell us your stories

What would you share? What would you celebrate? An invitation to write, to speak, to sing, to share….

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 23, 2020
2 min

A curlew's whistle

Whistle the whistler, seven whistlers, The seventh whistler, Singer of the dead, calling the Hounds to the Hunt And the Hunt to the Hill.

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 22, 2020
5 min

Earth Day and imagination

Today becomes a good day to look beyond our own socially distanced circumstances and find out more about other places, other peoples, other

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 21, 2020
3 min

World Curlew Day

Curlew, curlew, curlew, calling from the wild, into the wild. Call me home, please Curlew, call me home.

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Curlew calls to open the gates of spring

Gordon MacLellan

Apr 20, 2020
2 min

Curlew calls to open the gates of spring

Have you heard loneliness calling? A fluting call, a falling ripple. Wings lift, hold, A sweeping descent to lift again

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 15, 2020
2 min

Bats in Churches

brings together church communities, nature and heritage enthusiasts, and local people to create a shared appreciation of historic places

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Gordon MacLellan

Apr 12, 2020
3 min

Easter and transformation

The Spirit Herself stands watching, knowing that even She cannot help pull us from our chrysalis because we must be flight-ready

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