The David Charles Newsletter
Seasonal nature practices for reconnecting with your life story, your relationships, and the living places that hold you. Evidence-based wilderness therapy, designed for real life.
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Trees That Could Kill You (opens the original)
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Greetings, distant friend!For the first time in months, we’re eating dinner after sunset. My feet are kicking up the crunchy red and gold of dropped leaves. The bees, even the flies, have gone into hiding. A summer that seemed to begin in April is drawing to a close.Autumn is with us.Further down the page there’s a little description of who I am and what I’m doing. Above that, there’s a little nature practice that you could do sometime this week.But first:Order of Things I’d Love Us Both To Be D
Laden With A Terrifying Light! (opens the original)
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Autumn: The Sense of RealityGreetings, human, and thank you for reading this newsletter — even though it’s probably not what you’d really love to be doing right now. Heck, it’s not even what I’d really love you to be doing right now. Order of Things I’d Love Us Both To Be Doing Right NowMe doing my thing outside in nature. You doing your thing outside in nature. Even better — us doing our thing outside in nature (see exciting news below).Me writing this newsletter. You reading this newsletter.An
This Emotion Kills Fascists (opens the original)
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Summer Series: Episode AweWe stood still for a moment. And there it was again: the churring, two stroke engine of the nightjar, coming from here, there and everywhere in the gorse around us.We waited and then — there! He broke cover, inquisitive, flying around and around us in circles, angel wings against the disappearing horizon. Eager readers of this journal might remember my dusk to dawn walk last year, my first encounter with the nightjar, and a parting gift from the forest in the form of a
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