Ruby 9 - Yoga, Chant, Stories

07/10/2026

Thoughts and Musings

"Just as a child is born with a literal hole in his head, where the bones slowly close underneath the fragile shield of skin, so the child is born with a figurative hole in his heart. What slips in before it anneals shapes the man or woman into which that child will grow. Story is one of the most serious intruders into the heart."
- Jane Yolen (Touch Magic)

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30/09/2026

Thoughts and Musings

"The ancient Greeks had two primary words for time: kronos and kairos. Under the unforgiving rule of kronos we have to be on time, do our time and pay our dues. When we are under the influence of kairos, time stops and opens before us. There is a break in time as something timeless and beyond time enters and alters the world around us. The kairos moment arrives when it will, when the time is just right, when things become more possible and life becomes ripe for change. Kairos is the mythic moment that is both end and beginning at once, when the hard pulse of time becomes 'once upon a time' and past, present, and future secretly converse with each other."
- Michael Meade

26/09/2026

Retreats are adventures for body, mind and spirit. They offer an opportunity to delve deep; to explore, to create, to think.

To be with the quiet and subtle moments, to wait and to notice, to listen and to truly hear, inside and out; this is the gift of being on retreat.

23/09/2026

Thoughts and Musings

“When I was young I believed that the ideas I needed to grasp were complicated fact-dense new ones, and maybe back then I did need to take in more data. As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that a lot of the important things are not just facts to know the way you learned the multiplication table in fifth grade. They're fundamental truths that somehow need to sink into you to become part of your operating equipment, your values and premises, and they're often pretty simple and familiar. That's why they're often about seeing old things in a new way or having a well-known aphorism settle into in your bones or become your compass. That's why "love thy neighbor" is a profound thing to live by, a demanding instruction, but a trivial trio of words to toss out casually.”
Rebecca Solnit

pic: Sally Riddell

16/09/2026

Thoughts and Musings

“Sitting for a portrait means putting oneself on the altar of how the artist sees you. Over this perception of oneself comes another truth – how others see you. There lies the terror and the ultimate definition of vanity.”
Frannie Hopkirk

pic; Sally Riddell

15/09/2026

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14/09/2026

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08/09/2026

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Come sit by the fire and we will tell you a tale, as stories have been told since the beginning of time.