The Leveret

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Trickster

Images: Pran Saikia (photographer unknown).

See also the previous posts:
• Trickster-Hero
• Boys Will Be Boys

Saturday, May 20, 2023

. . . two brown hares are boxing.

The common brown hare is found throughout Europe and Africa, in open country, farmland, and woods. The hare can run amazingly fast – forty-five miles an hour at full gallop – but its sporting activities are not limited to running. When a female hare is being courted by a male, she often boxes with him.

Image and text: Somewhere Today by Bert Kitchen (1992).

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Monday, May 1, 2023

A Beltane Reflection

On this Beltane morn I share the following excerpt from the book Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon.

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Spring, summer, autumn, winter – birth, growth, fading, death – the cycles of life turn, and we turn with them. Ideas are born, projects are consummated, plans prove impractical and die. We fall in love, we suffer loss, we give birth, we grow old. We are renewed, we are reborn, even as we decay and die. Our psychic energies are renewed in their deepest sources by this participation in the cycles of change within the natural world.

When we are aware of the Earth’s processes, seeing ourselves as parts of a whole, we learn to let go of the need to control life. We are reminded to accept the inevitable cycles of green and dry, birth and death, cold and warm, emptiness and fullness, light and dark, that characterize the events and activities of our daily life.

. . . Just as the spring has been celebrated for tens of thousands of years as the point of fertility, as a time when nature displays its beauty to bring about the conception of life, so too our own life has its birthing seasons.

Image: This beautiful work of art is by British artist Wendy Andrew. It’s from her book, Luna Moon Hare: A Magical Journey with the Goddess.

See also the previous posts:
• Beltane
• The Beltane Hare
• Beltane Morning Light
• A Beltane Blessing

And at The Leveret’s brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• Beltane: A Time of Hope and Renewal
• Beltane: Casting Off the Darkness and Celebrating the Light
• Beltane Morning Light
• Beltane: Celebrating the Sheer Exuberance of May
• Beltane and the Reclaiming of Spirit

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Morning Light – April 7, 2020
• Morning Light – December 18, 2018
• Morning Light – February 18, 2017
• Morning Light – May 20, 2016
• Morning Light – April 7, 2015
• Morning Light – September 2, 2014
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013

Sunday, April 23, 2023

The Beauty of the Hare

Image: Photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• The Beauty of the Hare (2022)
• A Remarkable Creature
• Golden-Coloured Eyes
• A Still Moment
• Mostly Solitary
• Unhoused
• Solitary Hare

Sunday, April 16, 2023

The Art of P.K. Benbow

Says P.K. Benbow:

Charcoal is a messy medium, and canvas is an unforgiving surface. But somehow I have managed to fall head over heals in love with the texture and mood they let me create in my work.