Another day, another walk. And more strange experiences with birds. This time, two magpies fighting in a tangled ball of feathers falling...

The theatre was meant to happen and then it didn't. So I went to Kairos and thought about what I have learned from trees. Don't be greedy...

Obviously, Tane subsinging every time he sees me is an unparalleled joy. Well, it parallels Bobbit's whisper song intimacy. However,...

Ummmm... the blackbird is not really relevant... but the feathers are pretty and his facial expression....

Erazim Kohak wrote a paper about talking with trees. He wasn't considering the sort of verbal exchanges I (claim to) have with trees....

While I was out on a short and very cold trot today, I was stopped short by the lovely oak tree near the village. Its crown was alive...

I've been listening to Dougald Hine's At Work in the Ruins , which I like a lot. One thing: he says there's little good climate...

This is cool, don't you think? The squirrel seemed to know he looked like a patch of lichen covered willow bark! I had decided to walk...

They are beautiful, aren't they? Those wings? On another corvid, the raven, and back to David Abram in Becoming Animal... after he'd...

There seems to be a certain amount of viscosity. I mean that I'm slow moving and sort of stuck. But I have some tree news. I went to...

In the park, the crows are cross. Firstly, because I have my camera; secondly, because the gulls get the food; and thirdly, because...

Well, sometimes I am listening. Just finished The Funeral Party . That link takes you to a rather lovely review on an excellently named...

Check out Tane's warming hump! The wing muscles are of course critically important. I recall that some insects can't fly until they are...

These pictures look to me as if the blue tit is curving space-time! Freya Mathews argues in The Ecological Self that everything is made...

On Christmas Day, I went to sit with Kairos. On the way through, I saw two muntjacs and while sitting there I watched a squirrel...

There's a section in David Abram's Becoming Animal where he sees this shaman, Sonam, who is teaching him, turn into a raven and then...

I went to the ruined church because I needed to check on the beech tree. Once there I took a walk around and was fascinated by the holes...

One of the things that David Abram and Graham Harvey (he of Animism ) stress is that there is a difference between speaking about earth...

This is essentially a post of quotes from David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous. I took these thoughts with me to the copse where the...