Time to Get Ugly │ Fertile Resistance Posted on 15 May 202317 August 2023 When the means of subsisting correctly have slipped into the hands of psychopaths, there must be fertile resistance from those that wish to keep living outside of this assault. For time this need for fertile resistance has been established and evident for all who search and ponder. If there is… Read more
Foraging and Frolicking Posted on 16 April 202316 April 2023 Foraging wild plants for food, medicinal or cosmetic purposes is one of the many ways of developing a meaningful connection to our earth. The earth we all depend on as earth beings and that makes our lives possible to begin with! Oft forgotten, minimised or shunned, this ancestral, vital, unsynthesized,… Read more
Yet Still She Calls Us Posted on 26 February 202315 March 2023 When spending time with Nature, looking at all her forms and expressions, we realise that she is beautiful because she is alive. Even in terrible harshness, sharp and scarring, barren and bare. Even in death she breathes and allows the current of life to linger and flow. Inspired, we could… Read more
Appearance Based Value Posted on 8 November 20225 April 2023 Why is value often based on appearance rather than values these days? For too long, I was under the illusion that I had to conform in so many spheres just to have the right to even exist. Thanks to the experiences I’d had in life, I often categorised and judged… Read more
On Fertile Future Freedoms Posted on 8 June 202214 July 2022 Today I am not uploading (yet another) archive post, nor am I bringing you new words from my being but actually words born of another that I recently discovered @slowdownfarmstead on Substack – if you resonate or feel moved to discuss, please also consider subscribing and supporting the author Tara… Read more
If The Ocean Was A Woman… Posted on 11 February 20225 December 2022 Do you think she would bother about her uncountable years or how many have mapped, explored and traversed her before? Would she ask whether the bright, burning sun and moon were flattering to all her rhythmic ripples and undulating curves? Read more
Heeding the Call Posted on 17 January 202223 July 2022 Updated 23 July 2022 – Original 17 January 2022 Out and about, between waves of salt and snow, I heeded the call to let it all go. Despite appearances, nothing comfortable, synthetic or artificial can ever actually fulfil us. For it is amongst all the apparently uncivilised, savage and wild… Read more
We Know Where We Belong Posted on 18 November 20217 March 2022 Please enjoy a rough poem, an untamed ode to our wild nature. An extension of gratitude to our cosmic mother from the undomesticated being within us. A reminder to reverence or a warning, an alarm that alerts you’ve possibly strayed too far, consider this a loving call to bring you… Read more
Underwater Love Posted on 15 August 202112 January 2022 I want to be where the people aren’t, in that magical aquatic world that many are afraid of because they don’t try to understand it. From the second my fins hit the water I instantly feel appeased, regardless of what is happening on the surface of our world. Learning to… Read more
Nature Connection Posted on 19 May 202112 December 2021 There’s something so special about you, find it and honour it. For those with a connection to nature, it is incredibly humbling to realise that we are nothing in the grand scheme of things. Yet with our collective human desire to prove that we are something, we have embarked on… Read more