Better Light a Candle: Poems

“Better Light a Candle is a distillation of my life experience, a poetic reflection on life’s polarities, on light and darkness, hope and despair, love and fear, healing and wounding, gain and loss, spring and autumn, unfolding and refolding, opening and closing, birth, death and rebirth, remembering and forgetting, fire and water, time and the timeless, breathing in and breathing out, the flow, the rhythm and the cycles of life. The poems hold out possibilities for awakening and transformation without underestimating the gravity of our collective challenges while affirming the ultimate spiritual power of Love, Wisdom and Truth in our perennial quest for authenticity, freedom, peace, community and fulfilment.”

Better light a candle than curse the darkness – Chinese Proverb

ESSENCE

To see and to be seen
To hear and to be heard
To open and to be opened
To be touched and to touch
To be loved and to love,
This
Is the fruit of light distilled,
The woven texture,
The feel,
The taste,
The priceless currency
Of life
Together

Better Light a Candle is published by Lulu Press, and available as an ebook and paperback.
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The online launch was held in aid of refugees at the Cross Border House, Poland.

The Cross Border House was established under the Sichów Educational Foundation and is managed by Davi Lorimer’s good friends the founders, Amber Poole Kieniewicz and Paul Kieniewicz. In February of 2022, with support from Stefan Dunin-Wąsowicz and Anna Glińska, the Foundation made the decision to suspend its programme so that it could operate as a shelter and support system for Ukrainian refugees.

The donations we receive are what allows us to care for and assist the residents here as they continue to endure the many impacts of the war and prepare for life afterwards. Your contribution assures this objective, and your donations will go directly and exclusively to support the service of the Ukrainian residents at The Cross Border House.

Please support this altruistic humanitarian initiative at a time when most of us will be celebrating in comfort and warmth with our family and friends.

https://thecrossborderhouse.com/donate-now/

David Lorimer Member since January 25, 2021

David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer and editor, and Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. David is also President of the Wrekin Trust and Chief Executive of Character Education Scotland. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has a long-standing interest in the perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books about the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. He is also a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia – Thinking for Tomorrow. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince – has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. He is the originator of the Learning for Life Values Poster Programmes, which this year involved over 30,000 young people from more than 200 schools.

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