Thoughts from Little Gidding, England
From the moment I emerge from the bus into the misty veil of the morning, bundled in my jacket and scarf, the country air of Little Gidding breathes of peace. We seem to be in the middle of nowhere, our only company being a herd of sheep grazing in the verdant...
A Place of Remembrance | Canterbury Cathedral
At eleven o’clock, the first rays of sunlight are striking through the grey veil of clouds upon Canterbury Cathedral. It is the eleventh of November—a hundred years to the day since the Armistice was signed that marked the end of World War. When the distant trumpet...
The Spirit of the Moorlands | Yorkshire, England
The gothic spires of the old church rose above the town of Heptonstall. At first we lost ourselves trying to find our way through the narrow winding streets, but with a glance up at the bell tower, we knew our way at once. Beyond the wrought iron gates of the church’s...
For the Love of Story | Hilltop Farm
“… Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” (William Wordsworth) The bus drove away with a rumble. Where it had been, there now stretched the countryside of pasturelands and rolling hills, framed with gray-slate walls of stone and a crooked...
Thoughts from the Mountaintop | The Lake District, England
“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we are given.” — J.R.R. Tolkien October arrived in the Lakeland with a blaze of autumn gold, with fluttering leaves dancing across the pavement, and crisp blue mornings full of promise, and windows blazing with...Welcome!
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