Bienvenue - Welcome - Namaste

mardi 29 décembre 2015


" L'art n'est-il pas ce point fixe, ce point d'ancrage du sens, dans un monde qui se débat ? "
Hanif Kureishi - Quelque chose à te dire.












 

vendredi 18 décembre 2015

Gingerine jam




I was given a gingerine a couple of days ago, from the old lady who supervises the charity shop where I purchase most of my and my daughter's clothes from. A huge and rather heavy oblong watermelon that you can only eat once it's been cooked. The old lady spared a few tips, advising me to mostly follow my instinct as to how long to cook the mixture for, how much sugar should be added, etc.
So here my recipe :
1 gingerine (about 2,5kg of pulp, once skinned and seeded), 3 organic oranges, 1,5 kg of cassonade or brown sugar, a drop of eau de vie (strong alcohol), a pinch of cinnamon. Agar agar.
 - Chop everything small. Marinate over night.
 - Simmer for about 1/2 hour. Let it cool down. 
  - Simmer for another 1/2 hour. 
 - Add the agar agar (first diluted in half a cup of cold jam syrup) and simmer for another 5mn.
 - Put in jars.
 - Try to wait until it properly cools down before tasting it. (Now, this is the hardest bit...)
 - Enjoy, share, give away as the perfect golden gift !








samedi 12 décembre 2015

Vesica Pisces - Avalon



Vesica Pisces design on cobbled street.
The Vesica Pisces shaped pool.
Priestess meditating by the chalice well.


The heart of the shield is the Vesica Pisces, comprised of two equal and interlocking circles that share a radius.  This symbol both evokes and represents the polarities of life:

  • Earth, Mother, Subconscious, Underworld, Shakti, Goddess, Danu and Shadow
  • Heaven, Father, Higher Mind, Vision, Shiva, God, Dagda, Illumination.

The place of intersection of the two circles is the portal, the vesica, the yoni, the fish, Pisces, where the energies marry and merge. It is within this central Mystery that mystical truths may be embodied and noble legends lived out on earth.

The larger circle that holds the two is the circle of the Creator, the Void, the Universe. It is the Circle of Life.





samedi 5 décembre 2015







" Veine à veine, fibre à fibre, feuille à feuille, branche à branche, ce qui se ressent au bout des doigts, au cœur des paumes, parcourt à travers les méridiens tout le corps. "
F. Cheng - L'éternité n'est pas de trop.


mercredi 2 décembre 2015

Morning encounter...






"If anyone desires a wish to come true, they must capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it.
Since they make no sound, they can’t tell the wish to anyone but the Great spirit.
So by making the wish and releasing the butterfly, it will be taken to the heavens and be granted."
Amerindian legend.



No capture today 
Just about a rescue
From the ice cold path

Fragile shuddering frozen one
Could not help picking you up carefully
Between my woollen gloved hands

A temporary nest for your last breaths
How did you make it that far ?
So frail yet so enduring

Soon fluttering inside my cupped palms
You held on when I tried to release you
So tiny yet so determined

Took you home
By the kitchen window
Beneath the December morning sun 

Your last resting place
Until the time comes to reach the other side
So ephemeral yet so powerful