Illness and the Heart of Darkness, Our Fear
In my work as a healer, and within myself, I can clearly see illness is attached to our fears and unprocessed trauma. Through the work of people like Gabor Mate, we seem to be getting more aware of the connection between our unconscious behaviour and unresolved trauma. I have a related but more animistic view…
Hope Springs Eternal
This spring, after having ‘lost hope’ in many ways over the last year, I have been cautiously basking in the light of ‘hope’ like never before. I’m relishing the majesty of her purposefulness, and the razor’s edge of my expectations that cut me from ‘being’ in the moment. Like spring herself, hope’s ethereal quality only…
Nettle: The Rich Prince
I was harvesting Nettle all morning and many hours later my hands are still vibrating, numb and tingling like stars in the frozen night sky. In meeting Nettle we have come across a witty sharp-tongued Prince with a generous purse. He’s ambitious but in a very grounded sustainable way, slowly expanding territory as he gains…
The Deer Story
There were portents before it happened. Nothing just happens. As for how I know they’re omens? I’ve said before by way of explanation, that here on the farm it is very quiet all the time and not much happens. This is how it would have been long ago for everyone. Because there are so few…
The Daily Rites of Passage
It has been said or imagined that for our ancestors, all of life was ceremonial. While that may be true in the some idealistic sense, in the moment to moment reality our days are not all ceremony and never were. In the sense that we’re here dancing through each moment with divinity, yes, but there…
Usnea
By Steven I’ve just been out for the day picking Usnea or Old Man’s Beard with the kids. It’s a great winter harvest because you can see “good Usnea trees” more easily when there’s no leaves, and when the water’s frozen you can access where it grows thick in the coldest, dampest, darkest places (like…
35 years of seeding earth wisdom
