by Anne Skyvington | Jan 12, 2025 | Writing Spirit
WRITING AS A SOLITARY ACT Let’s face it: Writing is often a solitary business but one that is worth every drop of blood that you shed as you lock yourself away in a room. For that reason, we all need strategies to help us stay with the creative task and manage...
by Anne Skyvington | Jul 28, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282 Of all that God has shown meI can speak just the smallest word,No more than a honeybeeTakes on his footFrom an overspilling jar BASHO JAPAN: 1644 In Kyoto, Hearing the cuckoo I long for Kyoto Death-sick on my journey My dreams run out...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 20, 2024 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhists believe that happiness is the actual goal of most people on...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 3, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger Tyger, Tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire? And...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 24, 2023 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I had studied “The Republic” by Plato at Armidale Teachers’ College, and had learnt about a similar...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 17, 2023 | Writing Spirit
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides at the mother centre in the UK. These festivals are annual events, and I was a novice, trying to...
