Time is an odd phenomenon don’t you think
so too? I give my example, but
you’ll have yours. Last week I went to the isle of Iona on the Scottish west
coast. Cannot remember how long I had not been there, surely calendar years!
How could it be, that arriving there, I felt as if I had only left it last
month, or even last week? Everything felt so familiar: its sea of the ‘Sound of
Iona’, its colourful rocks, its 'Traigh Bhan nam Manach’ the White Beach of the
Monks; with the house Traigh Bhan and Robbie, the warm Rayburn, which invites
us to bake our own bread and spend lots of time in its cosy kitchen… On Iona
time runs differently.
Time slips, time loss or a déjà vu, it’s
all so much easier to happen during these days at the end of October and the
beginning of November; around Halloween or Samhain, as we call the Celtic festival celebrating the
Celtic New Year in the Wheel of the Year; in the Wheel of Time. It is said that
the veil between the dimensions is thinner. This would make it easier to
connect from our world to the invisible world, the ‘other side’. In many
cultures this has been practised: by the Native Americans, by the Celtic druids
and even the Christians copied it from the Celts and called it All Saints Day
and All Souls Day. Time to honour
the beloved ones who aren’t in a human body anymore.
I show you here a favourite photo I made of
the colourful rocks at the north side of Iona. There is a deep pool or hole
inside, maybe to disappear and swim to the ‘other side’?
photo & text © Adriana Sjan Bijman, 2014
