Tag: inspiration
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A Commissioned Offering

Having bought a few items from one of my market stalls in Glastonbury, I was asked, by a delightfully supportive customer, to make her a bespoke bag. She would be travelling to work with a South American Shaman, and wanted an “Offerings” bag to carry essential gifts and sacred objects for rituals. It needed to…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 17 with audio

Whilst Breac and Bredda join in the evensong that fills the dusk air, Louarn finds a smooth depression in one of the giant slabs of granite that form the cave floor and curls around himself, letting the chattering song tales relax his weary mind and body. Usually this would be the perfect time for a…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 20 with audio

Mountain caprinae are shore footed, strong and of a sufficient size to carry a grown man. Omid is in charge of leading the magnificently horned beast that Jainus has been strapped to, blindfolded and facing back wards for extra disorientation. This she uses to her advantage creating an orchestra of rhythmic hypnotics from the clang…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 19 with audio

Having well oiled the locks, as David turns the key, the bolt slides silently into the latch plate. He knows that the farmhouse is being watched and his movements monitored, so leaving after sun down before moon rise is his only option. A Morgan has lived on this land for over four hundred cycles, every…
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Imbolc

Imbolc signals the turning of the sap, returning of the sun and the first signs of Spring in the air. Snow drops are in full flourish and the little yellow primroses are being to brighten up the hedgerows, in another moon’s turn they will be a beautiful blanket on the banks and lawns. I was…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 18 with audio

Lord Sandred paces back and forth behind his desk, head dropped as he desperately searches deep within the recesses of his mind for answers that he knows he will not find. His thumbs fumble around each other whilst his hands clasp together behind his back. His long black leather boots squeak and creak to the…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 16 with audio

Unsure of the proper attire for ambush and abduction, Jainus has dressed and redressed several times, finally opting for a sand coloured cotton suit he sits on the edge of the bed in eager anticipation, imaging the lavish attentions laid upon him by Lamia when he returns as her hero, the captor of Ashima and…
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Sacred Forest – Chapter 15 with audio

Huff and Chuff glower down upon the harma as it passes between them on the start of its arduous ascent up the rutted and crumbling cobbled track. Tom has to slow the vehicle to a crawl as its undercarriage keeps bottoming-out bouncing through the deep pot-holes. ‘I hope yer Aunt’s gotta travon to pull us…


