{"id":378,"date":"2015-05-25T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=378"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:23","slug":"moyra-caldecott-1-june-1927-23-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/moyra-caldecott-1-june-1927-23-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Moyra Caldecott, 1 June 1927 \u2013 23 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moyra was born and raised in South Africa, and studied English to Master\u2019s level at the University of Natal.\u00a0\u00a0She met Oliver Caldecott\u2020 when she was lecturing at the University of Cape Town, joined him in London in 1951, and married him there.\u00a0\u00a0They raised three children (Stratford\u2020, Julian and Rachel), and moved to Bath in 1987.\u00a0\u00a0Moyra was a prolific writer of poems and novels, building a reputation as a vivid writer on the adventures and experiences of the inner world of human consciousness as well as the outer world of history and society (see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moyracaldecott.co.uk\/\">www.moyracaldecott.co.uk<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0By gathering intelligence through normal and paranormal means, Moyra created epic tales of wonder and adventure set intimately within the extraordinary worlds of 18th Dynasty Egypt, pre-Celtic Britain, Ancient Crete, pre-Roman Bath and elsewhere, including planets other than our own (see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroom-ebooks.com\/\">www.mushroom-ebooks.com<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0In yet more books she re-told mythologies of crystals, trees and women, and poured her extra energies into craft arts such as pottery, batik and stained-glass.\u00a0\u00a0Her poetry is particularly profound and moving, and much appreciated in poetic and story-telling circles in Bath, where she was once a city Bard.\u00a0\u00a0With her passing, much wisdom and love has been released into the world that had been contained in flesh.\u00a0\u00a0A celebration of her life will be held in or near Bath in the Summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Julian Caldecott<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A poem \u2018I have no permanence \u2026\u2019 by Moyra, from her book\u00a0<em>The Breathless Pause<\/em>\u00a0(2009):<\/p>\n<p>I have no permanence<br \/>\nas the thought of God.<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nHe may not think me<br \/>\nas I am,<br \/>\nwith name<br \/>\nand birthday<br \/>\nand little bag of tricks.<\/p>\n<p>But That which is He<br \/>\nis Whole and not divided<br \/>\nand everything that Is<br \/>\nis He.<\/p>\n<p>So in Him<br \/>\nmy spirit rides eternally<br \/>\nlike a drop of water<br \/>\nin the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moyra was born and raised in South Africa, and studied English to Master\u2019s level at the University of Natal.\u00a0\u00a0She met Oliver Caldecott\u2020 when she was lecturing at the University of Cape Town, joined him in London in 1951, and married him there.\u00a0\u00a0They raised three children (Stratford\u2020, Julian and Rachel), and moved to Bath in 1987.\u00a0\u00a0Moyra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}