Peace Across the World – my art

Just a quicky post; I had challenged the Scouts to come up with some 2d artwork around the theme of peace – and was inspired to draw this:

Peace across the World – by Frog

The people are deliberately vague apart from a general “male” and “female” shape.  The Rainbow embracing the couple and the world in the background enhance that we all need to get along together, irrespective of our cultures, beliefs and locations as we are all part of one race – the human race.

The image is in pencil and ink.

(This also appears on my other blog – magpieschest.wordpress.com – in case you think you’ve seen it before!

Solstice journey to Avalon

 

I know I’ve written this a little later (that is, about 4 weeks after the event!) but I felt the need to write up my last adventure.  Shortly after my first adventure with Frog and Sue (in the town of Whitby) we headed up to Scotland and I was able to stand at Dunadd fort – reckoned to be one of the seats of the Scottish Kings.  It was a fantastic experience.

Well at the end of the year I was taken out again on the next adventure – this time to Glastonbury.  Frog and Sue had been there many times before, but this was a special time of the year as it was the weekend before the Winter Solstice – when the night is at its longest.  Frog had hoped to see the sunrise from within Stonehenge, but got the dates wrong on his leave, so that put paid to that.  However, on the Sunday we walked up Glastonbury Tor.  I was quite pleased that it hadn’t snowed as even with my fur I could still feel the cold; but it still wasn’t warm and there were one or two tricky slippy bits that kept us all on our toes.

No-one really knows how the Tor was used; there are loads of guesses about whether there is a labyrinth to get to the top (the sides are sloping but with some interesting levels) but there was a church on the top once (now there is only a tower).  After a few minutes of quiet contemplation, we all headed back down into the Town for a cup of tea to warm us up!

After, we strolled back almost to the foot of the Tor to go to the Chalice Well.  This well, known in the past as the Blood Well or the Red Well, was rumoured to be where the blood of Christ was placed (along with the holy grail).  There was supposed to be a second spring well, but the site for that is now obscured with a supermarket.

Anyway, the Chalice Well is a peace garden, with lots of areas where you can sit in quiet contemplation.  Unfortunately it was cold, so the only contemplation was whether fingers would remain on the ends of hands!  The well cover was really lovely – the symbol representing the interaction between this world and the other; the water has long been thought to have healing properties.  there are two glasses under a small water spout that is constantly fed from the well, the water also goes onto fill a healing bath (bet that’s cold!). The water has a high iron content (hence the Red in the name) and this has also coated much of the water flows with a red tinge!

 

Overall, Glastonbury had a very calm feel to it – a bit like the Kilmarten valley in Scotland, but with more people.  I had a really lovely time.

For a few more pictures, head over too: http://www.magpieschest.co.uk/glastonbury09.html

Article by Whitby. 

Pictures by Frog.