Author: Christina

RIP Mary Oliver

“…I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?… Just a few days ago, someone reminded me of this poem by Mary Oliver called Summer Day. What a […]

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The Magic Window

Commuters on a Train — Cyril Power[/caption] I grew up in a country where it was unusual, on public transport, to see people reading anything other than a smudged newspaper. I moved to London, where inside the bright-lit tube trains, a colourful collage of hundreds of paper covers made a journey gayer and more interesting. Tired people would bury their minds between the paper covers of novels and magazines. Who was reading Harry Potter? Or Tolstoi? Or The New Scientist? Today, when you ride a train or a bus or a plane, everyone escapes through the magic windows of their […]

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Year Ahead Workshop

January 19, Trinity College, Broad Street, Oxford. Starts 10am. Come if you can and bring your chart.
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January Horoscopes

Well, first of all, a very Happy New Year to you — and pats on the back all round. Right at the start of 2019, we will get a sense of the big themes of the year. We have a couple of eclipses and an important aspect comes to “perfection” for the first time since 1852. What is more Uranus leaps into action and starts making his way — finally — out of Aries… This month’s pictures on the theme of city streets. To subscribe to the horoscopes, or read yours online, click here.

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