Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabrindranath Tagore
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8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 24th 2020
Filed under Anecdotes, Cambridge 2017, Holidays
Cambridge – Day One
Despite good intentions we set off on our journey to Cambridge later than intended. This meant we had to break for lunch on the motorway. The services in that part of the world are limited so we opted for a sandwich in Greggs.
We arrived at the hotel at 13.30 to find that our room was [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2017
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Plane Tree Walkway at Night
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 10th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Hay-on-Wye 2015, Holidays, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed. . . . And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 17th 2016
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit from within.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2016
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The Old Oak Tree
2 Comments CherryPie on Jun 19th 2015
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
St Bernard of Clairvaux (1091 – 1153), France
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 18th 2015
