Who Am I? What am I about? 
A ‘Lover of Horses‘ is the meaning of my name. One thing my mother got right. The first love of my life was met in a film about a boy who chose to drown with his ‘Crin Blanc’ his White Stallion(Mane)’. Rather than let him be captured, the two rode into the sea to drown. The waves covered them in close embrace. Taking me to the film when I was seven was supposed to be a birthday treat. In a way, it was. I cried for a month and dreamt thereafter I would one day find just such a champion lover as a white stallion in the Camargue. Here it is as close as I can get. Understanding love in all its forms has driven my life.
PHI
What began me has also ended with PHI, the golden section that binds love throughout the creation. Finding love in its manifest created forms is my search for meaning and one way or another I write about it. In poetry, in novellas, and in what has been damningly called my ‘Magnum opus’, the story of the Odyssey in which lovers found their connections with themselves, and brought memory to the surface. For a joyful book that appellation is quite a killer. Add ‘erudite’ ( somebody, who meant it kindly did) and it is almost dead in the water. Yet it is a light-hearted paeon to lovers, lovers of truth, lovers of the natural world, lovers of ideas, and creators, musicians, painters and poets. It is also quite irreverent because love is too important to be taken seriously…
Mavericks and Solitaries
The other thing I love are the mavericks, eccentrics, the unorthodox and shunned. I suppose because I know about that. The solitaries of life have always felt natural companions. It is why those lonely geniuses were my first choice, tracking them down, through desert sands and into mental hospitals. All heralded now, safely dead.That brings me to the writing of this new self-introduction. I have been ‘called out’ and admonished for hiding behind books and stories rather than letting myself be known full frontal. Perhaps that’s because at the half mast of my seventies I don’t look great in a photograph, don’t make small talk easily, and, yes, I spend most of the time writing, books, blogs, and ‘those’ letters to my tribe of daughters. I had four once, but they are now (mostly) absent. I will probably offer reflections on all that too. Some of you are still going through the delusions that you can shape your children!
Virtual Friends
What might this newly polished portrait of what I am about have to offer? Ideas mostly, observations ( many) that are probably unwise, as many free stories as you feel like reading, and the hope of friends who have other ideas. My books are covered in other pages, and I have abandoned them to plan new ones. Just to keep the grey matter going a little longer. I will probably indulge in memories of the Africa I grew up in, the people who gave over to laughter and singing. Old people have a tendency to rose tint but it was another country then, and more vivid everyday. I’d like to share some of that.
I’ll stop talking and give you joy in the creation instead. Have a dose of PHI in its impeccable authority. Four minutes of sublime unity. Click the link that follows:
The Golden Key by Jonathan Quintin.wmv
Albert Bierstadt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
By Adinbegic (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
By Jean-Louis Vandevivère (originally posted to Flickr as camargue-5) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
PHI lippa. Letters of Love 
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PHI lippa – I am utterly in love with your header, your words, your loves, your heart … thank you for finding me so long back and may be continue far ahead in our maverick journeys to love and truth, naturally …
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I thought you had splashed through here aeons ago Sarah! You probably plodded through previous blog incarnation, sighed a weary sigh, and clicked ‘unfollow’! I sympathise as I ended up doing much the same.Come again. Now I am again off the leash of doubt I hope to make it worthwhile. Good to see you here.
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Great post, so glad I happened by through some WP miracle. The mavericks, eccentrics, unorthodox and shunned — I like them too.
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Thank you Silvia. Glad to have an unexpected visitor! Come again and I will try and make it worth your while.
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This is just to say ~ ~ ~, and that I do like the new set-up, well-lit!
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Thanks Joe. Some wild exhilaration follows ‘Accept and Apply'( or words to that effect) and all the antique cobwebs disappear! Much left to do but my interest holds only for so long!
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just watched the video – thank you, lovely! Can we look forward to post soon?
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Short view halloo posted. Deeper digging to come.
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I was having so much trouble getting to your old location (error messages). This is lovely and so glad to be here. Yay!
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Thank you for persisting, but I should fix the road for the odd truckie in search of ‘that’ book! So now you have caught up with my intention to clarify, slim down (in all senses) live purposefully and hold open house always. Loved your pictures, especially the one of you with about a ? eight year old?
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Thanks, Philippa. ❤
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It is warming that good friends were so quick to notice! But it does suggest it was rather apparent!
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This is so engaging, immediately engaging, real and Lighter. I feel you’ve suddenly let go and come to the surface,Philippa!
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Was I always so weighty? How horrible. Nothing I like less than worthy weightiness! I must have been submerged. Yes I feel much the lighter for letting go. Not sure how it happened.
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No, never ever is anything you have uttered ‘horrible’! Deeply thoughtful is the word. But it all seemed a tremendous burden, a weight on your heart and mind. So likeSinbad, you’ve chucked off that Old Man of the Sea!
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Love the Jonathan Quintin video – beautiful and elegant.
And long live Mavericks and Solitaries 🙂
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Thanks Ashen. All that pounding and splashing felt good! I find the video moves to tears. The elegance is beauty and it underpins everything!
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Welcome Susan. My first visitor! Lighter hearted from now on. Getting out from that Magnum which was never accompanied by champagne! I am now embarking on a South African ‘Safari Round George Eliot’ Now there is a poser for you!
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Lovely, lighter, enchanting … looking forward to more!
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