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In the distance
I can't express how miserable I am about Garden Robin keeping Tane at bay. It's beyond absurd. Or, well, I guess it's not: it's normal...

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Nov 14, 20241 min read
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Catharsis
I went to see Robert Icke's Oedipus . This review gives it five stars and it deserves it. When I was doing my A Levels - and one was...

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Nov 13, 20242 min read
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Bang-bang-bang
While I was at the Reserve today, checking trees, there was a shoot going on across the valley. It was so loud. The sheer violence of the...

Crone
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Seeing the unseen
Well, the robins are often unseen. Not least because I shot four minutes of video of Tane - all lovely close ups as he pecked around my...

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Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Ravens call
A real Morrigan day - fitting for a becoming Crone elder. You'll see evidence from the video - not just about the ravens' cries! It's a...

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Nov 10, 20243 min read
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I'm confused again
The robins. Now this, and the one on the front, is Tane. That asymmetrical marking, with the shark's took whiteness to the left of his...

Crone
Nov 9, 20241 min read
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Visiting the copse
It's sad to see the Transformation Tree transforming into death, but instead of feeling those negative emotions when in the copse, I...

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Nov 8, 20241 min read
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Starling stars
Oh you have to love the iridescence! Did someone say that starlings were the poor man's parrots? That might have been for their mimicry....

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Nov 7, 20241 min read
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Croning Day
Apologies for the delay of a week! So, I started the day with a walk in Wytham Woods. It seems I was particularly interested, as so...

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Nov 6, 20242 min read
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Attending in the evening
The fascination with attention hasn't gone away. Instead, I may be planning a little course on the subject. I need to work out how it...

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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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The phenomenology of Cronedom
I'm writing this before the Croning Ritual, though that will have happened by the time you read it. I've had a day in which I felt happy...

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Nov 4, 20243 min read
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Crow world
I said that I can't make sense of the robins; well, I can't make sense of the crows either. At the park, everyone was looking at me...

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Nov 3, 20241 min read
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Corporal Compassion
This book, Corporal Compassion by Ralph Acampora, provided me not just with inspiration but offered some validation for what I have been...

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Nov 2, 20243 min read
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The might and the might
The dreamcatcher-making, about which I wrote in yesterday's post, was part of a study I am engaged in. A very lovely women is researching...

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Nov 1, 20242 min read
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In the shadows and in the light
Talking of shadows leads me to think of dreams and I recently made this rather rustic dreamcatcher. The oak twig was donated by the...

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Oct 31, 20241 min read
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Sights and sounds
My record of two trips to Pitsford. I was feeding the birds and checking Sentinel Trees. Had I found any badger activity, I could have...

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Oct 30, 20241 min read
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Haiku pondering
I was writing a haiku and my haiku went from the world/senses to the abstract while the famous haikus go from wide scene to specific...

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Oct 29, 20241 min read
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The gaze
What are they considering when they look at me? Certainly, there is an issue of safety or threat being considered. But do they see me as...

Crone
Oct 28, 20243 min read
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Changing seasons and changing minds
In a lecture given in 1970, Gregory Bateson said: If you set God outside and set him vis-a-vis his creation and if you have the idea that...

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Oct 27, 20242 min read
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No reciprocity
One of the key values in the field of study I'm engaged in is reciprocity. Either one takes a very loose view of that, or one has to...

Crone
Oct 26, 20242 min read
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