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The future waits
light and dark engage
above the unfamiliar seas

John Thomson had been running a blog intermittently since 2011, more of a private affair and attracting a few friends from time to time.

Following his death in February this year, shortly before his 100th birthday his family have decided to update his website with additional poems and pictures from his extensive collection.

John was always keen to share his reflections on the big themes of his time accompanied by paintings and poems that were an increasingly important means for him to tell his story. His story, although individual, also belongs to the story of our times.

We hope his paintings and poems will stimulate your own reflections on what is important in this increasingly fractious world.

I pushed the door and open wide it stood.
The landscape that it showed, strange and unknown,
Was waiting to be witnessed, skies that glowed
And hills and fields and streams and I all one.

Nectar flows in secret for the honeybee.
Live in the joyful presence of the yet-to-be.

Extract from ‘Euphrosyne’ by John Thomson

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September 2019 - "Stop the coup" protest march in Brighton, England.