Silver Stream

What does this summer bring?

A dark trail into the woods – coming into an empty clearing, a fantastic architectural experience, as when you walk in to a huge cathedral (Grace in San Francisco, for example) and it practically knocks you backwards and pulls the air into your lungs...

Slipping along the rushy river in small boats: a soft, shining, metallic gleam to everything and then the electric flash of a kingfisher charges across your bows – this is a secret worth knowing. Big, chunky, dark branches and their satisfying reflections in the stream, and a discovery: when everyone has turned their backs, this is where all the bees have gone!

It's all very well craving big blue skies and smouldering days lazing around in lush green meadows on soft blankets, but this summer things seem to have turned quite silvery and shining instead. When things emerge differently to how you wanted, consider that want and need are two different things, and mustn't be confused. This doesn't mean you are without your treasures.


{Today's soundtrack: Hem - Half Acre}