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Let us follow the forest path towards an ancient bridge from the Iron Age, built by the Osismii (Osismes locally) — Gallic Celts who were here before the arrival of the Romans. There have been settlements in this area going back 700,000 years, to ancestors we can hardly imagine. By neolithic times (late Stone Age) […]

On the blog pages here on this site you’ll find 165 newsletters discussing writing process, how we live creative lives, living in hope in a challenging world, how to connect with nature as part of of our creative path, and the crucial questions of what story we want to write and what story we want […]

Thanks to Fiona Owen for this wonderful conversation that digs deep into writing process and why story matters. Fiona Owen lives on the island of Anglesey/Ynys Môn in North Wales, UK with her husband, Gorwel, and two collies, Mabon & Beca. She writes poetry and short fiction, primarily, has a shared daily haiku habit and […]

We are just past the shortest day, the longest night. In the Celtic calendar the Solstice brings us to the still point of the year. So much in nature has died back that the flashes of  green that remain  become powerful metaphors for the journey through the darker, shorter  days. Perhaps we bring in a […]

I’ve been reading Melanie Challenger’s book, How to Be an Animal, a wonderful reminder that we are embodied and that, despite all that is extraordinary about humanity, we are not separate from the rest of nature. The poet Mary Oliver, summed this up in one of the finest lines of poetry, in ‘Wild Geese’: You […]

Tomorrow I will be leaving Reagh—a friend’s cottage in rural Ireland, complete with a maze in which it is absolutely possible to get lost, a fairy glade, magical garden, and a small river. It’s an enchanted place where pipistrelle bats fly in the evenings and we might catch a glimpse of a large hare. Following […]