Seasons of a Wild Life
Nature re-connection through our senses, creative expression, imagination, mythology and archetypes.
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The Preciousness of Friendship (opens the original)
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I saw my best friend from childhood, Susanna, for the first time in 50 years. It did not matter that we are now middle-aged and that we missed decades of each other’s lives. We talked for hours about the years that shaped us and things we might have sensed as teenagers but never discussed then – family secrets, private struggles. What a gift to talk about the past, with someone who knew me in a way that no one I met afterwards could ever know me. Long forgotten memories surfaced as we visited ou
Tobago Magic (opens the original)
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It has been a very long time since I spent time on this island that once was my second home - Tobago, the quiet sister isle of Trinidad, at the southernmost end of the arc of Caribbean islands, just off the coast of Venezuela.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height
Sneak Preview (opens the original)
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I’ve been absent for a while enjoying a different part of the world where two oceans meet,<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="800" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Xxg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsub
Big Magic and the Creative Urge (opens the original)
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When I was about half way through reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, I realized that I needed to remember the important parts of her book. So I started at the beginning again and took notes this time, consciously gathering the gold nuggets.Liz introduces us to Jack Gilbert (no relation to her), a poet who just happened to have taught at the same University a few years before she landed there taking over his teaching position. She quotes him: “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladn
The Medicine of Place (Part 2) (opens the original)
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In Part 1 of Medicine of Place, I wrote about these aspects of my time in Ireland: food, plants and ancient trees that hold sacred, liminal space.Rocks were another defining presence in Ireland; big ones like the famous Cliffs of Moher, a foreboding massive bulwark against the frothing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the Earth element in direct contact with the relentless Water element. Seasons of a Wild Life is a read
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