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Tipping point
The grip of winter lingers, hard to shake off like a knot deep between my shoulder blades. A cold discomfort in my heartspace. Breathe into it, the…
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Mar 20
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February 2023
From the belly of the earth
I recognise the feeling now, my fourth cycling through this mark in the year, the third time while paying attention. A restlessness, an urge to sort…
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Feb 5
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May 2022
Breathe
I am sat at my laptop staring at the garden trying to find the words. The garden is teeming with life, but I am thinking about death. I get up and go…
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May 25, 2022
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December 2021
Uprooting a new year
I had planned to spend the last day of the year in the garden. Planting the last bulbs, sowing the first seeds. I woke up dreaming of the metaphors it…
afroliage
Dec 31, 2021
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November 2021
Death, Love, Samhain
If the sun never sets on the British Empire, let me be of the realms of the moon. Nothing new has been said under the sun, but when I speak I find my…
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Nov 3, 2021
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August 2021
Lughnasadh
I try to understand the wound. What was the cause of the land and people’s severing? Why did those who lived here begin to feel it was not enough, to…
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Aug 1, 2021
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May 2021
Before Beltane
It is May. The forerunner of summer. I walk round the garden under leaden skies, braced against the wind. There was no frost last night thanks to the…
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May 3, 2021
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March 2021
Ostara
Yesterday was the spring equinox. Today things have already teetered off kilter, each day visibly longer than the night past. The race is on to sow…
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Mar 21, 2021
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February 2021
Imbolc
I wake on the last day of January with a strong urge to tidy the house. With all four of us at home, all the time, the ebb and flow of our days leave…
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Feb 1, 2021
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December 2020
Yuletide
Last night I dreamt of my garden. It was winter & I was surrounded by fresh greens: cabbages & lettuce, the name lollo rosso rolling around my mind. An…
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Dec 23, 2020
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The darkest day
The thing about living in a small community is the way in which you are fully seen. I remember the painful vulnerability of this; the desire to cloak…
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Dec 21, 2020
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November 2020
In remembrance of hope
We wake, pour coffee. It is raining & the deck is slippery with fallen leaves and fast advancing moss so we look out at the woods from indoors, a steady…
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Nov 8, 2020
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