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The writing course that I have been doing online for the last 7 months, sadly finished this week. I decided last year to enrol onto the course with Animate Earth because every week as I sat down to write this blog, I had the same battle with my inner teenager […]

The brightness and the increased amount of light, every year provides an excitement and a lifting of spirits, both internal and external. An awakening from some sort of slumber, calm and required solitude, I enter this phase with a huge desire to share and gather people around me to celebrate […]

Despite knowing that during the winter months, if we choose to live in rhythm with the land, we should quieten ourselves, take time to rest our own energy system and nourish ourselves mentally and physically, I have not managed to achieve this at all this passing winter. Despite numerous attempts […]

I sense a deep connection to everything around me but have yet to access the messages that I perceive are held within. The water that makes up the majority of my body has been in existence since before the dinosaurs; that knowledge alone is enough to blow your mind when […]

Time seems to be moving so fast, yet this winter is taking absolutely ages to get to its end. I am normally quite accepting of whatever weather is happening, as long as I am appropriately dressed. But this year has tested my patience on accepting persistent rain. I cannot quite […]

  I highly recommend the book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is beautifully written and helps readers to weave indigenous wisdom into today’s thinking and I found it to be highly insightful. This week I came across a phrase from this book which I didn’t recall but it […]

Our land weeps for all the suffering She has endured, Deep wounds from abuse and scars cut from greed, She weeps from lack of respect, honour, love, gratitude, Taken for granted and given nothing in returnBut for poison, fumes, litter and neglect. She calls out now, grabbing our attention all […]

There feels to be an exceptional shift happening. I have written about it before, and I may well do so again, as it seems to be endlessly fascinating to me. I have heard it said by some that it is because this is the year of the Fire Horse, a […]

I missed my, self imposed, writing deadline this weekend. For good reason, but disappointing nonetheless. I was at that point on Friday morning of feeling under the weather, noticed the early signs and the need to cancel all engagements and take a much needed day of rest. It was going […]

Indigenous cultures it seems weren’t so much hunter gatherers, as they’re often depicted, but were more cultivators of vast areas who worked in harmony with their surroundings to create sufficient food for themselves and for other, non-human species. Mother Nature’s bounty was not just for the benefit of humankind, it […]