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watery pursuits and surges of heart-voltage
I'm delighted to have writer and podcaster Susan Mathews as guest for this week's newsletter. Season 2 of Susan's podcast The Subverse has been my 'go-to' listening recently, and her thoughtful conversations around water have helped to shape my own response to this...
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...
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...