New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin
I much enjoyed The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt.' All landscapes are personal. The landscape you live in is not just an archive of past lives, past geological and natural events, but an archive of your own story.' shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-ghost-la...
Review by Peter Reason Ghost Lake is a paleolithic, extinct lake that lies between the Yorkshire Wolds and Scarborough. In prehistoric times it was a real lake, the centre of a flourishing Mesolith…
Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.
New post on Learning How Land Speaks. Australian Indigenous Elders explain that ‘when you take care of Country, Country will take care of you’. They teach us the words from Indigenous languages, rinyi, pirlirr and liyan, which teach us to listen deeply to the spirit of Country.
River as Teacher. Second conversation between me and Andreas Weber @biopoetics. 'The point of life is to beget life, and this whole reality is alive'
