Monthly Archives: June 2013

When healing is a true calling

Posted on June 30, 2013 by rosross

There is no doubt that Allopathic practitioners may be ‘called’ to healing as are Shamans but it is the exception, not the rule for the simple reason that the study and practice of medicine in Allopathy is driven by two … Continue reading →

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Counting blessings

Posted on June 29, 2013 by rosross

We are coming up to three years in Malawi – yes, it has gone fast, yes it has been seriously challenging and yes it is practice for living in the now, accepting what is, and being incredibly grateful to be … Continue reading →

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Three things

Posted on June 29, 2013 by rosross

  Three things in human life are important. The first is to accept  how you were born. The second is to accept how you live.  The third is to accept how you die.       This weekend we are … Continue reading →

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Mad science strikes again

Posted on June 28, 2013 by rosross

The reality is that no scientist can say with any certainty what the impact of IVF will be or could be on the resulting human beings until two generations have passed and in essence, the IVF creation, his or her … Continue reading →

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Highlands

Posted on June 28, 2013 by rosross

Oil on Canvas, Roslyn Ross, 2012, Highlands.   The land in rolling purples, is crimped and sprinkled forth, as brown and pinks are tumbled, on earth’s full ancient face. From high to low and back again, the soil in shuddered … Continue reading →

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Adytum

Posted on June 26, 2013 by rosross

Inner shrine holds sacred court which I can grace alone, and others are forbidden; my heart, my soul, my home. Adytum.    In silent words of  worship, is the prayer sent forth, as mind in ritual solemnised; brings spiritual to … Continue reading →

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Rusty

Posted on June 25, 2013 by rosross

In corrugated clarion call the metal shows its face, revealing time’s persuasion; surrendering with grace. In weathered welts of years the walls and roof have shed, the brightness of beginning; donned rusty cloaks instead. In pock-marked perseverance, they stand against … Continue reading →

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Frayed self

Posted on June 24, 2013 by rosross

  The words were whispered loud and soft; ‘pull yourself together now’ as if no more than shredded cloth, which could be gathered, surely swept into fresh-stitched and unknown shape. Love settled on the face of time, a shawled embrace, … Continue reading →

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Those who will the Fates guide….

Posted on June 24, 2013 by rosross

Those who will the fates guide; those who won’t the fates drag.   So is written on the gate of time, a wisdom sourced in ancient mind, a truth which we reject and so deny that makes the truth so … Continue reading →

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Inherit

Posted on June 22, 2013 by rosross

The truth is we inherit the deeper shifts of life to stand beside our parents; to birth what they have vowed. This thunder of our being, will light the way and yet, be joined in childhood dreams, which stand sad … Continue reading →

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