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Making a Zen Garden in the Cotwolds

By Lawrence Barrow On June 18, 2022 ·
This year, after wintering in Andalucia, I returned to the U.K. to start creating a dry landscape Zen garden, or karesansui. Gravel would represent water; raking marks, waves; and rocks will suggest islands or mountains. Areas of white gravel emptiness, to provide serenity. The site chosen was next to my pottery [...]
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OPEN GARDEN with THE NGS / NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME 2021

By Lawrence Barrow On July 23, 2021 ·
The Garden at Scots Farm was opened to the public for the first time on July 17th 2021 as part of the National Garden Scheme . This pop-up event was a launch into hopefully an annual mid-summer event . We were blessed with bright sunshine that helped to draw a large group of around 200 [...]
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Anagama : Firing No. 2 ~ Gracias A La Vida

By Lawrence Barrow On September 27, 2016 ·
The early evening rays of an August sun bled across the fields through the pines as three crows freeze and circle above the kiln site where piles of uncut strips of larch lay strewn around and the torn camouflage of tarpaulin flapped in the wind. A lot of work needed to be done before [...]
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Scots Farm & the Flying Monk Arts’ Trail

By Lawrence Barrow On August 20, 2016 ·
The history of aviation does not begin with the Wright brothers' flight in 1903 but in 1010 with Elmer, a Benedictine monk of Malmesbury Abbey who made a short flight from the tower of the Abbey, using wings he had made himself, strapped on to [...]
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~ When We Were Born Again ~

By Lawrence Barrow On July 29, 2016 ·
WHEN WE WERE BORN AGAIN In the silver night In the blinking of an amber light I see you painting there in black and white You're whistlin' down a gilded street Blonde listenin' to the heart beat In the mercury risin' heat When we [...]
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~ 金閣寺 ~ The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ~

By Lawrence Barrow On July 29, 2016 ·
Afflicted with an incurable stammer The novice acolyte constantly endured The mockeries of the senior monks Within the confines of the monastery Where Yōsuke was given the name Dōshin Who sought the Way to Liberation Without the precincts was an island [...]
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~ Les Fleurs Du Mal ~

By Lawrence Barrow On July 19, 2016 ·
~ LES * FLEURS * DU * MAL ~ * The dark Satanic mills cast coal black shadows Over the once green hills and to the far away meadows Surrounded by a forest of oak and ash sooted grey Where Loz the Smithy beat his hammer Over an anvil with lungs [...]
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虎の子渡し 〜 Tyger, Tyger

By Lawrence Barrow On July 17, 2016 ·
TYGER, TYGER  〜 虎の子渡し TORA-NO-KO-WATASHI Met my love by the aqueduct The tiger's room was of old gold A dream painted on the sliding doors Where I kissed a girl by the aqueduct Drifting clouds through the hazy moon The mountains dry and sea so raked Cats a prowlin' in the street and my heart [...]
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涅槃図詩 ~ Nirvana in Paris

By Lawrence Barrow On July 12, 2016 ·
NIRVANA IN PARIS     - or -      NEHAN-ZU 涅槃図   ~  PARINIRVANA  by LB 慈 The fire is extinguished Even the smouldering embers Maybe the wheel will spin again Splattered with The remnants Of a dry land In the led and dead Of a lamp black night A new moon On this [...]
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Dreaming Kyoto

By Lawrence Barrow On June 14, 2016 ·
京にても 京なつかしや 時鳥        芭蕉 "Even in Kyoto Hearing the cuckoo's cry .. Dreaming Kyoto " Bashō (1644 – 1694) An interview with LB recorded in March, for 'Dreaming Kyoto', a podcast which aims to spotlight creative individuals who have found a unique path in Japan's old capital. A 30 minute interview: (here on SoundCloud)
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