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Spinning Straw – Tracy Cochran

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://parabola.org/2017/07/30/spinning-straw-by-tracy-cochran/?utm_content=buffer9bcb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Click on the link above to visit the site for Parabola Magazine for this remarkable reworking of the Brothers Grimm. It is not long since we published a piece by Tracy – but the writer stumbled upon this at … Continue reading →

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Helen Haig-Brown interviewed by Muskrat Magazine

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://muskratmagazine.com/my-legacy-interview-with-courageous-filmmaker-helen-haig-brown/ Moving, fascinating interview with gifted film-maker Helen. MUSKRAT – as its Twitter account puts it – is an on-line indigenous arts and culture magazine that disseminates traditional knowledge in ways that inspire their reclamation. Thanks to Lori Coulson on … Continue reading →

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Peter Goblen ‘Now’

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘NOW It is only this, no draft not final manuscript survives with which to speculate, for I have burned them. No edition has a date, I distinguish no printings, number and sign no copies so what you hold, collector, Will … Continue reading →

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Pema Chödrön on tigers above and below

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs … Continue reading →

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