Photo credit: Meg Morgan The Good of the Hive is a global art project and organisation, founded by artist Matt Willey. His personal commitment is to hand-paint 50,000 honey bees - the number in a healthy, thriving hive - in murals around the world. Willey's murals highlight the mission of an expanding need for understanding and conservation. We must always look closer at what we think we see in order to know what is really there. By seeing something in a different way, we can inspire people to see other things in a new light. This can and will change the world. His Mission Ignite radical curiosity and active engagement around planetary health issues through art, bees and storytelling. ...
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away...
As Christmas fast approaches I thought it might be nice to offer up my favourite Christmas Cocktail recipe, the Festive Negroni! (from BBCgoodfood.com) THE FESTIVE NEGRONI! Ingredients: 3 cinnamon sticks 4 whole cloves 2 star anise 2 cardamom pods, crushed 1tsp black peppercorns 200ml Hendrick's Gin Ice 100-200ml Vermouth 100-200ml Campari Orange slices and fresh bay leaves to serve Method: Step 1 Put the cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cardamom and peppercorns in a dry frying pan, and toast for 5 mins, or until the spices are just fragrant. Remove from the heat and leave to cool. Step 2 Tip all the toasted spices into a medium jar and pour over the gin. Seal and chill for 48 hrs...
The "High Priestess of Soul" Images photographer unknown. Born 21 February, 1933 Eunice Kathleen Waymon changed her name to Nina Simone in 1954. If she were a fragrance, a candle she would be Trees. In the words of Warren Ellis, "she is the divine incarnate". It might as well be Spring The things I used to like, I don’t like any moreI want a lot of other things I’ve never had beforeIt’s just like my mamma says, I sit around and mournPretending that I am so wonderful and knowing I’m adored I’m as restless as a willow in a windstormI’m as jumpy as a puppet on a stringI’d say that I had spring feverBut I know it isn’t spring I’m...
