ᗗ saying a prayer for them ᗗ

Who am I to ask for prayers to be answered, for wishes to be granted?

I just add myself to a line of devotees and hope that some of their Godliness will stick. Their goodliness might brush shoulders with my sadness and form an apex of wishes granted?

Visiting Bouddhanath, site of many a pilgrim's dusty hopes and wishes, 

I joined the peace on a sunny,wide bluesky day. Tangled in an alleyway of seller's tatters I felt the calm, the sanctuary of my surroundings immediately.

What a beautiful place to spend an afternoon. 


With the eyes of higher beings on you the whole time.

Be Good, Be Good, Be God.

Walking around and around the giant stupa and ringing spinning bells in full fat sunshine, metal warmed by wishes and worn by wringing hands...


what goes around comes around


what comes around goes around


I go around again and watch the birds looping the loop and the whole circle,
the whole circus that this circle is, soothes me and I smile 
and it is returned again and again.

Everything moves here, flickers, dances, jumps, the flags leap and roll in the breeze, people circumnavigate, dust rolls from the  stupa, the eyes of an ever watchful God are fixed. I roll around and say out loud my prayers, are they like birthday wishes? They might have to be kept secret. 

I'm not tired of bunting, flags, blue skies or beautiful places yet. 

This place is a confirmation of joy.

And this one is for you, my lovely friends who inspire me, send me words of encouragement and  wonderful messages of hope and love, I thank you, I thank you and I am keeping the prayer flags flying. And I am keeping going and I am trying to live up to what you think I might be. I think I saw the eyes wink. 

⏆⌇glancing out of my reverie⌇⏆

It would indeed appear that I have disappeared but it's not true.

I am here, mostly, hiding from the sun and converting garden rooms into studios

because inside became too dark, too warm 

and too separate from what was going on out there in summer.

It's been too glorious to blog, too hot to think, too bright for computers

and I had a little blogging break.

But not a break from anything else...

it's business as usual behind the hedge.

I still have unfinished business re: lino prints but then I started a whole lot 

of other stuff...you may like to see a pile of cut sari cloth to be sewn into bunting.

I had to use those saris for something.

{before I go back and buy some more}

And I found in my cupboard a bag of remnants from silk ties..which are now almost
mini bunting...{a delicious charity shop find}...see close-up below.
Rich & exotic jewels, like treasures from another world.

I have got more things to show you...if the rain carries on we could be in for a bloggy week.

I think everyone in blogland has melted into the shimmer.