I’m surprised to remember that when I was about sixteen years old, I read a lot of science fiction. I’m not attracted to it now, or in any case I am not reading it now….maybe the science fiction I was reading then was opening my mind and spirit to...
There is an image that haunts me. Walking across England nine years ago, I passed a young father and his very young son piling chestnuts into a fair size basket. The scene could not have been more quintessentially English. It was quite early in the morning and the...
Towards the Winter Solstice I begin to feel a yearning to connect with the energy of ‘holly’. It is quintessentially winter-ish. Along with ‘ivy’ it moves something in me that burns like a slow hot fire, snaking it’s way upward like the...
Photosynthesis is a true, natural alchemy; it is what allows a plant to, literally, build itself from air, water, light – from “nothing”. from ‘The Golden Spruce’ – John Vaillant
‘Living the good life’….’the simple life’….’sustainable living’…..’escape to the country’…..etc. etc. etc. All these words have made my heart beat faster, my soul yearn for the ideal, my mind try...
