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The Farmer’s Boy and the Virgin

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Rumor had her a virgin. He stepped over that threshold himself, a few months before on a warm night up-country in the tractor-driver’s hut. Mwala in an idle moment lasting half the day asked, ‘Done it yet?’ knowing full well … Continue reading →

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Working Zen

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Kris Deva North

It took me a little time to get my head round Zen as a spiritual yet non-religious practice. A Catholic childhood had given me insights into mysticism but generally put me off religion, which, until middle age, I equated with … Continue reading →

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Death and Birth

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Kris Deva North

My own story nearly ended there, on that beach, under those palms.  Too many mushrooms, not enough water, too much dancing, from midnight until the sun was high.  Some still danced, in the pools of their shadows.  At breakfast a … Continue reading →

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Gratitude Revisited

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Listening to Psychic Sahar’s interview with me, there began a trickle that became a waterfall of memories: this time last year I had lost the sight in my right eye and my left was getting dimmer.  I could no longer see in … Continue reading →

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Travelling Light

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Sitting quietly in the Tao Garden some months later I noticed a young man giving me the keen interested glances of someone seeing someone he thought might be a highly evolved spiritual being. I was cultivating the long hair and … Continue reading →

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Thirteen and a Half Broken Fast

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Just a routine check-up, said the receptionist when I registered at my new doctor’s, nothing to worry about at all.  She said.  But she wasn’t the one having the check-up.  Armed with a phial of freshly drawn urine I presented … Continue reading →

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Just Do It, Just Did It!

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Stepping into my garden as the sky begins to pale, feeling cool moist uncut grass underfoot, seeing a pair of pigeons fly overhead, maybe rats with wings in London but still doves, and dove is love, what Albert E said made the … Continue reading →

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A Toe in the Coach Trip

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Kris Deva North

On my way to the Healing Circle, reflecting on last night, seeing my Beloved off at Heathrow to whirl again across the desert dancing round gypsy fires, I had a moment, like you know they creep up on you when … Continue reading →

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Pastiche

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Kris Deva North

A kind of Sundayness led me to where my Auntie Pat lived: a pebbledash house, once opposite a cricket ground now luxury apartments, with her dog Pongo (yes he did), fishmonger husband and three children, one sporty who married an … Continue reading →

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History with Elvis

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Kris Deva North

Coming January it would be just 20 years to Elvis’s 100th Birthday.  That thought came to me last night at Miss Saigon (a thousand true stories.)  All I remembered from the first time were the helicopter and the faces of abandoned … Continue reading →

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