white greeting card scribed with one of the aphorisms of the desert fathers, with a sepia sketch of a desert landscape in the background: living without speaking is better than speaking without living.

137:  Words from the desert : on speaking

 

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This greeting card has been designed and printed from hand-scribed texts.  © Rachel M Denton

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This card is available in both A6 and A5 size

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Presentation (A5)  £2.79

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Pithy & wise & full of commonsense, the desert fathers retired to the Sinai desert in the early years of Christianity to search for God & to do battle with the devil.  They refused to underestimate the wily ways of the “demon within”, and their words are a lodestone through the winding paths of mirage and self-deception which can all too easily overtake even the most ardent seeker of truth.

 

Scribed in insular half-uncial  -  a seventh century script from the northern British Isles.  Hand finished on a luxury. pure white, linen effect card accompanied by top quality white envelopes With a luxury white envelope (120gsm).