by Jason | Dec 3, 2019 | Greenwood Chairs, News
“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.” Matsuo Basho As I push the blade of the knife into the wood it slides along the surface and straight into my thumb – FUPPIT, I shout in my head. I hold my breath,...
by Jason | Sep 2, 2019 | Greenwood Chairs, News
“It was an incredible sight, an unbelievable sight, they galloped up with their lances and with pennants flying, up the slope to High Wood and straight into it. …” F.W. Beadle, 2nd Lieutenant It took them many hours to thread their way, tired and breathless, to the...
by Jason | Feb 17, 2019 | Greenwood Chairs, News
In a small hut by a river lived a ferryman. He spent his days watching and listening to the river, occasionally carrying a traveller across the water in return for a few small coins and a kind word. Every day he prepared a small meal of rice and beans, which he ate,...
by Jason | Aug 12, 2018 | News
I just want to thank Dr. Noelle Campbell-Sharp and everyone at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre for everything they have done for me. I really have no words to express my gratitude. There have been a few events in my life that stand out for me, and now there is one more....
by Jason | Jul 2, 2018 | Greenwood Chairs, News
But of all the water’s secrets, he saw today only a single one – one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Hesse...
by Jason | May 11, 2018 | News
We pinched cigarettes into extinction, between trembling fingers, and placed them safely in our pockets for later. Others took last lingering draws on warm pipes before returning them to pouches or pockets. We moved forward in silent lines, our horses stumbling on...
