Category: The Arts

  • CLAIR de LUNE PLAYED BY STEVAN PESARO

  • PAULA PROENCA

    Paula Proenca on the roof of Casa da Torre, Soutelo, Vila Verde, Portugal.  Photos:  A Harris  

  • BETWEEN TWO UNKNOWNS by Ianthe

    Slooped from the slow hiss, Bombadee, bomp, Slip, shine, whine and chuckle. Tinkle, rattle, buzz and winkle, Slurp, burp, fart and stomp, With xylophone and whoopee whistle. …………………………………….. Emerging, raging, Question, riddle, Dance and rhythm, Snake and wriggle, Dodge and mark, hark and fumble, Into life’s loud world we rumble. ………………………………….. Stamping, marching,  Drums and…

  • MORNING PRACTICE

    Morning Practice (for Dónal C.) The leaves: I’m sweeping them but still they fall upon the steps and all along the path – I wonder if I’ll reach the boundary wall. The storm last night increased my brush’s haul, though for this rain they will say dhanyavaad, I’m sweeping up the leaves and still they fall. How…

  • MEMORIES

      MEMORIES [LEST WE FORGET] At night when all the house is still, I sometimes take my favourite briar, And one last pipe ere bedtime fill, Then fall to dreaming by the fire. The cosy room, the easy-chair Are left a hundred leagues behind, I’m with the old battalion where The cobbled roads of Flanders…

  • RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE’S FAVOURITE STORY

  • COMPASSION

    Amongst the flowers I am alone with my pot of wine drinking by myself; then lifting my cup I asked the moon to drink with me, its reflection and mine in the wine cup, just the three of us; then I sigh for the moon cannot drink, and my shadow goes emptily along with me…

  • DRINK YOUR TEA

    Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis  on which the world earth revolves  – slowly, evenly, without  rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. Thich Nhat Hahn

  • FRISBEE GIANT

      Malcolm Sutherland is a Director, animator, illustrator, in Montreal, Quebec.  

  • WINTER WALK IN VOGRIE PARK

    Winter walk with the Nepalese community in Edinburgh led by Monica Wilde and Dr Mark Watson, Head of Flora at the Botanic Garden Edinburgh.  Yeshe Dorje.  

  • Elsewhere

      Japan Shinbazu Pond – even these withered lotuses can lift my heart   heated toilet seat – memories of growing up in a large family   deep-fried pork: I await instructions on how to eat it   we look through the dark to the place where Mount Fuji is supposed to be   arrival…

  • ODE TO MANCHESTER

    The blood of Irish, Catholic immigrantsAnd Russian, Jewish refugeesFlows through the veins of this Buddhist nun,A seeker of wisdom, compassion and peace, Whose path has encircled the world and alightsNow in Edinburgh, where it has stayed.But my heart cries out for Manchester,For Manchester where I was made. And I weep to see your suffering,Caused by…

  • LAZY LAMA FILM

    Renowned German filmmaker Niko von Glasow’s newest film is now available to view here!                                                                          LAZY LAMA FILM The film…

  • TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE

    I who am dead a thousand years,     And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers     The way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas,     Or ride secure the cruel sky, Or build consummate palaces     Of metal or of masonry. But have you wine and music…

  • Sheila Atim: Tight Connection to My Heart

    Sheila Atim winner of the Olivier Award, 2018 for Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic and the Noel Coward Theatre sings Bob Dylan’s Tight Connection to My Heart.   la

  • Remember

    Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand…

  • Autumn Leaves by Yenne Lee

    Here’s Yenne Lee with her arrangement of the Joseph Kosma standard Autumn Leaves. She’splaying a great 2004 Pepe Romero Jr. classical guitar in cedar and maple.