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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In reply to: Tony Atkinson posted an update: here is the report i sent to the gazette. it would be good if people could add to this in terms of the contestants and anything else they feel should be included. that way we may […] ViewAlthough I didn’t think anything of it when I read is; Kat is right, Tony, the gender emphasis, although positively intended, is unnecessary; and so, ever so subtly, implies an unfortunate assumption that the winners will be male. I realise that is not your assumption but we do need to ask ourselves whether anyone would make any reference to…[Read more]
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Wes White commented on the blog post Open Gorsedh 2009 11 months, 2 weeks ago
My first time! : ) I have fond memories, it was very exciting taking part.
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In reply to: Kali Roberts posted an update: I would love to ask people’s view on something that was keeping me up last night. I’ve been reading people’s words and appreciating how steeped they are in celtic lore. I’m aware […] ViewThank you for this Amber. As you say, it pretty much says it all. But who said it?
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In reply to: Tony Atkinson posted an update: i am thrilled to see something really happening here and also underlining what i said at both the Trials and Final…there is a dearth of unique and disparate talent in the order and […] ViewSomeone asked for books on poultry in the library yesterday and got directed to poetry…
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 2 weeks ago
In reply to: Tony Atkinson posted an update: i am thrilled to see something really happening here and also underlining what i said at both the Trials and Final…there is a dearth of unique and disparate talent in the order and […] View(Chuckling at our ’dearth of unique and disparate talent’) – your meaning is got, though, Tony!
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Wes White commented on the blog post The Great Global Gowk-Hunt 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I also found out in the course of my research for this piece that there is a type of cuckoo in Australia whose song is upside-down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoBlkaGJk4s (clearly the uploader of this clip is not a fan).
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Wes White commented on the blog post The Great Global Gowk-Hunt 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks so much Kat!! It actually reads rather clunkily to me now, I think partly because it was written specifically to perform – and I also think maybe I was so focussed on trying to get it learned that I didn’t pay as much attention to the language as I otherwise would. Those finals were [...]
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Wes White commented on the blog post The Wheel of the year 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The internet says he once spoke so eloquently that a wolf who had killed his ox was moved to ask if it could pull his plough in its stead.
It must have been *really* good if people were more excited by his speech than the wolf’s.
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Wes White commented on the blog post The Wheel of the year 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this Tim! St. Hervé’s day this year is going to be the first morning I wake up in America on what is a very important trip for me – to meet a dear friend I haven’t seen in person for nearly ten years and who is also a long-term writing collaborator. I’ll [...]
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Wes White commented on the blog post The Wheel of the year 11 months, 3 weeks ago
These are mine –
Sun, Venus – Gemini
Saturn – Cancer
Ascending; Mars – Leo
Pluto – Libra
Uranus – Scorpio
Neptune – Sagittarius
Moon, Mercury, Jupiter – TaurusDo feel free to draw your own conclusions; naturally all those things in Taurus make me skeptical, etc.
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Daru McAleece posted an update: Glad to be on this forum with the Glasty Bards again – much thanks to you Tim for setting this up! I am off to Shropshir this weekend to help run a ’Shamanic Bodypainting’ […] ViewGreat Daru, thanks so much. I’ll pm you soon!
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Kali Roberts posted an update: My first poem… I was 10 when I wrote this. I find it so interesting that our first poems say alot about us! Surprised that I was so political, even at that age. South Africa In […] ViewThe whole poem speaks of our frustration at the way humans treat each other but the final couplet in particular is powerful, moving and insightful; applicable to every conflict.
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Wes White commented on the blog post apologies for not replying to some of you, i have just returned from a week in portugal. i wrote a piece about kali and the gorsedh final for the gazette before i left but it didn’t make it in i see. it may have been too late as it was submitted on monday night/tuesday morning. hopefully they will include it on thursday as they helped with the build-up and it is important that the winner is visible following the event, i think. 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Welcome back Tony, hope your words are included in the paper tomorrow.
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Wes White wrote a new blog post: The Great Global Gowk-Hunt 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This was my 2009 entry for the Open Gorsedd on the theme “All that Glisters is Not Gold”. I almost certainly pronounced quite a few of these names quite wrongly, so apologies for any wincing this might have provoked at the time. In particular I was glad to think I was the only one who’d [...]
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Tony Atkinson wrote a new blog post: <> again, just posting this in the correct place now…my winning piece from last year – (back when i was GlastoBard MMX) !!! << around the zodiac with my shapeshifting spirit […] ViewHi Tony – welcome back! So the rest of us don’t make the same mistake, do you know where you were posting these before?
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Wes White commented on the blog post All Hail the Bard! 11 months, 3 weeks ago
(Hail the Bard!)
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Wes White posted a new activity comment: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In reply to: Kali Roberts posted an update: I’m thinking to start a bardic writing circle on 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month – ’Living Awen’ Idea is that each fortnight, someone different will provide the topic (and […] ViewI would really like to join in but I am not normally able to come on Tuesdays. But if it was okay to only come when I could, I would.
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Wes White commented on the blog post Nantosuelta 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Okay, being honest, I’m drawing a blank on ‘pallusy’ (phallusy pun on fallacy?) – but otherwise – amazing!
“Bare as butter with a beard” – what a line! And “You’ll have to put down the bees”!
Well I am glad to have had a part in making this happen. ; )
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Wes White commented on the blog post Sucellus 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow – thanks so much for this reaction Amber! It’s just as it appears here, a very short piece which hopes to suggest a wider story. It’s interesting what you say about the differences in the ways any of us write – it was partly your lines about prints on the sky and Kat’s ‘grainy [...]
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Wes White commented on the blog post Sucellus 11 months, 3 weeks ago
That’s wonderful.
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