Lakeside Reverie

“金华即金丹，神明变化，各师于心..” [太乙金华宗旨] “The golden flower is the vessel of a red substance of immortality, where bones turn to gold as spirit is transformed..” [Secret of the golden flower – Ancient Daoist text]

When the canvas fraysIn the currach of thoughtAnd a stain of ocean Blackens beneath you,May there come across the watersA path of yellow moonlightTo bring you safely home.~ John O’Donohue

Reflections of stillness in a garden in Suzhou

So thick the tangled greenwood grew,So feeble trill’d the streamlet through:Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen,An angry brook, it sweeps the glade,Brawls over rock and wild cascade,And, foaming brown with double speed,Hurries its waters to the Tweed~ Marmion, Walter Scott

Cramond Falls, Edinburgh