Joanna Tilsley / XYZ

23/05/2026

At the deepest level of reality, separation is an illusion. Everything is enfolded into everything.

David Bohm and the Hidden Wholeness Beneath Reality

03/04/2026

The Wayside Goddess
Turns thrice at the shrine
Interpreting dreams
For the restless Divine

20/03/2026

The Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere occurred this morning at 10:46 am, marking the astronomical start of spring, with nearly equal day and night lengths as the sun crosses directly over the Earth’s equator. This mezzotint engraving ‘Hare in a Moonlit Landscape’, by British artist Clive Riggs, hangs on my study wall, next to my desk; and all this long, dark winter I have gazed at it daily and longed for the return of lighter days. And now, at last, they are come; and new life is once again bursting forth, the air is filled with birdsong, and the hares are dancing in the farmers’ fields - and I can finally feel the grey veil of melancholy lifting from my mind.

13/02/2026

For Friday 13th February - from my poetry collection ‘30 Days’.

15/01/2026

A stunning sunset walk this afternoon from Bamburgh to Budle Bay.

06/01/2026

"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else"

When I was studying for my English Lit. A Level at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, under the marvellous but redoubtable Dr. John Parry, who had studied Classics and English at Trinity, one of our set texts was Tom Stoppard’s absurdist, existential tragicomedy ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’, in which two hapless minor courtiers from Shakespeare’s play 'Hamlet' stumble around, unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them. We were fortunate enough to be taken by Dr. Parry to the Young Vic in London to see it staged, in a notable production directed by Michael Bogdanov. I watched the performance absolutely spellbound, and the experience left a lasting impression on me of the utter absurdity of life. Thank you, Dr. Parry, and RIP Tom Stoppard who died, age 88 years, on 29 November 2025.
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05/01/2026

My extremely chilled garden Buddha.

01/01/2026

On my way home.

31/12/2025

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt …