Letter from Cressida Pryor
March 20, 2019

At this time where religious intolerance is acted out with horrific violence in many parts of the world any words of mine would echo those already spoken by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s inspirational Prime Minister.

So instead I offer an image that emerged in my art work recently, I think Olivia guided my hand! It is an embodiment of ‘Namaste’ and the painting is pinned to the door that leads from the hall into the main room of the house. It is a reminder to hesitate at the threshold, to bow to the divinity in all; for Namaste says just that: ‘the divine in me honours the divine in you’...

Two equal hands joining in balance, echoed now in the Equinox. Joining heaven and earth, Hindu and Moslem, woman and man, old and young.

May this balance and joining together be in our hearts as within the love of the Goddess all are one.

Blessings,
Cressida
FOI Steward

"Namaste" © Cressida Pryor