Month: April 2025

Spiritual Expeditions

Fast Friends.
Buscando mis amores
iré por esos montes y riberas,
ni cojeré las flores
ni temeré las fieras
y pasaré los fuertes y fronteras.

San Juan de la Cruz. Canto Espiritual

In search of my loves
I will go over mountains and shores
I will gather no flowers
Nor will fear the wild beasts
And I will go through fortresses and frontiers.

St John of the cross. Spiritual Anthem.

For brother John, who, with with the excuse of religious fervour, wrote some of the most spiffing poetry ever. My own translation. If you don’t approve of it go learn Spanish, by all means.:-)


    All-In Weekend Breaks

    Mountains. Come, join us for a (very) long weekend in the foothills of this most wonderful, restful and restorative of mountain ranges. You’ll be warmed by the Twin Suns, taken on eldritch guided hikes by the Lurking Teddies, plied with scrumptious food by the Shoggoths, serenaded by tame Byakhees, treated to a unique variety of Tarantella by the intern Shubniggureths (on kindly loan by their Ineffable Mother) and generally spoiled rotten by the Hovering Things. Forget, be it only for a few days, that these days genocides are a public spectacle that can be seen on TV, and beyond implausible excuses are sought, found and pushed by the genociders and their minions and nobody says boo. Life is short.