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@gawanmac

'that we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond.'

Scotland

Joined February 2010

gawanmac 🇵🇸
@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
I saw this on an OS map and couldn't not investigate. A place of worship symbol in the middle of bloody nowhere on the edge of a wood. It was a foggy, atmospheric day up on the North Downs, so I decided to walk three sides of a square through the wood to reach it.
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@gawanmac
Feb 13, 2024
Haaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving.
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@gawanmac
Jun 30, 2018
This is a thread about what my friend found in her attic. #LGBThistory
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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Two pairs of beeches waltzed with each other alongside the track, as two birches stood by, waiting for their chance to cut in.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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I find it hard to state this without hugging myself and clapping my hands in childish glee, but this church has no electricity and is still lit by working gas lamps.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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The colours were not only literal. I am not a Christian, but so much about this gorgeous, humble, magical little church spoke to me. It's part of the Green Christian movement, and manages its churchyard for wildlife. 'Caring for God's Acre'.
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Jun 30, 2018
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So that is why I’ve made a website - paudspins.wordpress.com - where you can browse all of the badges, and if they evoke memories and stories for you, you are warmly invited to comment there or send a message.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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It's also part of the Small Pilgrim Places Network - a smattering of places across the country that allow "pondering, breathing, meditating, praying and 'being'". They should be places off the map that don't draw crowds. They may be churches, gardens, ruins, wells, open spaces.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
I'm not a believer in heaven, but I appreciate the notion of places where other forms of reality become tangible, where past and present interlace. This place is certainly one, helped by the apparent merging of this ancient human structure with the woodland crowding close.
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@gawanmac
Feb 13, 2024
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The caption for the first photo in the tweet above is: "First shift is fighting, the second is in the kitchen." The picture of a starving Palestinian child is NOT in the article, If you can stomach it, what follows is an account of this breathtakingly crass article,translated.
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Apr 13, 2018
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It wasn't the heap of stones I'd half expected, but a tiny, living church that seemed to transpirate from the wood that it was nested in.
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Apr 13, 2018
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Just the suggestion of a gable, an echo of a spire, materialising surely with each step forward.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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But it was held at bay by the colours inside.
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@gawanmac
Apr 13, 2018
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Thanks for joining me for my walk. If you'd like to visit the church, this is it, St Margaret's at Wychling, up on the North Downs between Doddington and Lenham. If you go, give them a penny or two towards funding new seats that are easier to wipe the bat poo from.