The Invention of Rivers

The Invention of Rivers

It’s late Winter, or perhaps it’s early Spring. An uncertain season here in Orkney, either way. It can mean anything from shirtsleeves and birdsong to blizzarding snow and sometimes both of these in the same day. We’ve had some gentle days recently that saw the hens...

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The Listening Ground

The Listening Ground

I was lucky enough to read an early copy of Victoria Bennet’s beautiful debut memoir "All My Wild Mothers", just published by John Murray Press. I was immediately struck by the way she shows how our care for the natural world is inseparable from our care for each...

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Rest is resistance

Rest is resistance

When I gave a presentation to the Open University a few weeks ago, I spoke about my practice of drawing water as one of deliberately slowing down in order to inhabit time with more awareness and presence. One of the questions I was asked in the (unrecorded) Q&A...

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An Incitement To Joy

An Incitement To Joy

Ross Gay’s “Inciting Joy” has been keeping me company these past few days.  A poet, Gay’s prose is playful, looping, forking into asides and lengthy footnotes, inviting you to meander alongside. As title the suggests, he explores ‘incitements’ or moments when a kind...

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