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On disbelief
In the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall , and probably in the novel, Sir Thomas More says something like, I can't disbelieve what I believe....

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Dec 24, 20242 min read
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The white squirrel hunt
There's a white squirrel in town. Leanne sent me a video, sent to her by D. I decided to seek out the creature as my car was in for a...

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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Conversations with critters
Well, a critter The philosopher Eva Meijer has asked me to interview her about her new book, Multispecies Dialogues , which will be...

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Dec 22, 20242 min read
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Fire in the forest
Not an actual fire: the red of injured wood and sunset. But how much of this unexpected colour in the dark world of a winter wood! I went...

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Dec 21, 20242 min read
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From parole to langue and back
This is kind of interesting... this dude Saussure distinguished between language as it is spoken (parole) and language as a system...

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Dec 20, 20243 min read
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The sun had his hat on!
So I took the opportunity to survey the Sentinel Trees on the "other" side of the Reserve. The results: eight trees updated in my...

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Dec 19, 20242 min read
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A world that watches
I'm still enjoying the David Abram book. And it's directed me back toward animism... not that I ever really left animism. Anyway, he...

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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Being a witch
A while ago, years back, I bought David Abram's book... Becoming Animal I think it was called. I didn't like it. After a few years, I...

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Dec 17, 20243 min read
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For a time I could not have been happier
In a post a few days ago, I mentioned the robin drama. I think and hope that if you go here you can see a video. But since then, well,...

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Dec 16, 20242 min read
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Gentleness
The meek don't inherit the earth, but maybe they should. There's more to goodness than truth, and right action. There's more than all...

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Dec 15, 20243 min read
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Love and War
Standing under the back lilac, I saw a robin perched on the fence at the end of the garden. They just stayed there... looking, I thought,...

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Dec 14, 20242 min read
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Having a face
Then, in the midst of being absorbed in a world that is my world, I encounter the face of another person, and the world as I had...

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Dec 13, 20244 min read
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Once again, I'm paying attention...
That idea I had for a series of talks is underway. I have six speakers and in addition, I will be hosting an introductory session and two...

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Dec 12, 20245 min read
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Another complication
The good news is that I have seen a little more of Tane. He comes in and feeds close to my feet, using me as a shield from Chestnut. I...

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Dec 11, 20242 min read
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Brrrr Burrrr....
Yes, well... another bad pun. But what a huge burr on small branches! Birches are really good at burrs. They are connected to the female,...

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Dec 10, 20241 min read
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Crone energy
My project for the Sentient Forest is to explore Crone energies in the north. Look, I don't know what that means either, but I had to say...

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Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Found meaning
Meaningfulness is to be found in our spiritual capacity to keep the ecocosm on course, by teaching our hearts to practise affirmation,...

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Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Loss of perspective
Over the past weeks, I've been writing an Orca paper and a Badger presentation and organising a series of talks. That seems pretty...

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Dec 7, 20242 min read
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Fallen. And it's SHITTY
A poplar fell - not at the copse, but at the Reserve. This was a big tree. Where the roots tore out of the earth... you can see the...

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Dec 6, 20241 min read
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Flight ways
I've said this before, but I really don't think landing is easy. That was Mrs Playground. Yes, indeedy: I visited the crows. The Divines...

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Dec 5, 20241 min read
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