Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected.
Chief Seattle
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4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2021
Filed under Faith Foundations, Out & About
St Boniface Church – Bunbury
St Boniface’s Church stands prominently in the village of Bunbury, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1] The church dates mainly from the 14th century. Its features include the Ridley chapel, the alabaster chest tomb of Sir Hugh Calveley and the tomb of Sir George Beeston. Raymond Richards, author of Old Cheshire Churches, considers [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2021
The medieval cross base, known as the ‘Weeping Cross’, would appear to be a unique survivor of many such crosses in England. The place name ‘Weeping Cross’ still exists in Stafford, Banbury and Shrewsbury but no physical evidence remains. The age of this ancient and venerable relic is not known. It is certainly as old [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2020
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2020
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
St. Mary’s – Acton Burnell
Acton Burnell Castle was the home of Robert Burnell, a close associate of Edward I who became Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Sharing its setting here with the atmospheric ruin of his fortified house stands the pleasing early Gothic church that he built in the 1270s.
It has survived basically unchanged, though the attractive [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2020
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, York 2020
Crypt Chapel of All Saints
Like a medieval chapel, it is the first chapel in an English cathedral designed as a columbarium, a resting place for the ashes of the dead, whose names are engraved in the stone walls.*
*from the Sheffield Cathedral handbook
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 21st 2020
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we’ve forgotten how to listen.
Michael Roads
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2020
