A storm blew up nearby this week, although not a meteorological one. Sucked into its wake, I felt angry, resentful and indignant at being affected by chaos that wasn’t my making. Consciously or unconsciously some people choose to live within choppy waters; perhaps it is what they have always known and riding the ups and […]
Midsummer, or the summer solstice, is a good time to honour; the long days, when energy of all life seems to be at its peak. Celebrated for centuries, this is a festival of significance for many but has become less observed by the majority of us in more recent times. I decided this year […]
I missed a week of writing for the first time since I started this blog in January. Admittedly, 6 months isn’t that long to be doing this, not compared to some, but as much as I tried to compile something last week, I couldn’t find anything much to say. Last weekend we were part […]
A little over a year ago, I was on a course called Primal Gathering; about connecting people to the land and creating community. I learned a lot and enjoyed meeting like-minded souls all developing skills to better understand themselves and their environment. My biggest revelation was in one of the first workshops when we were […]
The change in weather this week has brought about a noticeable change in me. I hadn’t realised quite how tense I had felt from the incessant dry spell we have had. The crops, our first ever, now stand a chance of reaching maturity and thus, harvest. The grass should now be able to grow enough […]
Poised on the edge of the void, how do we let go of the known and step into the vast space of the unknown? Knowing we wish to create a shift, in ourselves, in our environment and in the world as a whole is one thing, but how do we actually do it? From birth […]
