HeyJaredThree Wild Steps
Nature and place writing from the western edges of Dartmoor, as well as general reflections on the writing process.
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September: berries, podcasts, and loneliness (opens the original)
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This year, I am ahead of myself. I can see it coming. I’ve written here before about the inevitability of the descent into the darker months but, usually, I am well into October before it dawns on me what is happening. Most years, I embody the transition in the season well before I recognise what is happening. This year, as I say, I’m ready - but it has meant that September has possessed a poignancy all of its very own.I think the second day of September marked the end of summer. Others felt it
Summer: a beginning, middle and end (opens the original)
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I woke this morning to grumblings of thunder in distant hills. The summer is drawing to a close, and the rain is oh-so-welcome, but it will take time for this brown desiccated land to return to its familiar green self. I am taking a few days of leave before the next frantic academic year begins next week and it is a good opportunity to reflect on this season as it bids us farewell.Summer started, I think, the day I stood beneath the sky of swifts. Veering and rattling and looping in figures-of-e
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