Names are important. In the landscape, names are part of the culture, representing part of local history and with a meaning that sum up the character of the place – Lakeland names like Lingmoor (heather moor), Langstrath (long valley), Sleddale (flat or even valley), Great Gable (gable on a roof top).
13.75 billion years ago light emerged from the dark which the Greeks knew as ‘chaos’. All the ingredients required to build hundreds of billions of galaxies were contained in matter far smaller than a single atom. Matter was not flung into an empty void, but all of space-time came into being everywhere at once, born infinite but unimaginably squashed.
Life is made up of rhythms. There is an innate, primal connection between the rhythms of the sun and the rhythms of the soul. People of many religions and none understand that the movement of the sun and moon profoundly affect us on earth. Our calendars, weeks, seasons and festivals are shaped by these rhythms.
