THE HEART OF IRON

Photo by Tim Girvin As I walk the abandoned farm land of pressed grains, weeds and rushes, since there is a chill – I can hear the needles of cedar, pine, crackling like ice. And there, in the field, is a piece of rusted iron, found in the sea, but now resting...

THE MEDITATION OF CHOPPING WOOD

Photo by Tim Girvin To the wood, the physical practice of chopping wood is the distinction from the hard, and blood scenting brace of cold iron — the blade of the ax — to the splitting wet of the wood that is new, and just fallen. And older timbers, that...

Matthew Girvin | Ten Years

Matthew Girvin, on the day of his receipt of his Unicef passport – the global passcard of commitment to humanity It was today, ten years back, that my father called me to let me know that we’d lost my brother Matthew Girvin. Matt was on a helicopter...

METAPHORS OF THE LUMINOUS INTELLIGENCE

BRIGHT LIGHT Photo by Tim Girvin LIGHT MIND. METAPHORS OF THE LUMINOUS INTELLIGENCE I’ve been working with scientists, these days, exploring ways to tell stories in a manner that people can understand. Or better still, ways that truly celebrate the power of what...

SHADOW AND CLARITY

Photo by Tim Girvin Even when the winter emerges, Fall is tinting what’s left of the leaves, there is a chance to find a flower or two, hanging on — yet still resplendent, blasting color into the softened palette. Looking at the wet flowers, drops of...