Sleep had not been forthcoming and I had two days of volunteering scheduled. One close to home and physical; one further afield and...

First up, I am anxious that this dunnock has one of those horrid growths on his neck. See where the feathers open out on the right side...

This young blackbird is now visiting regularly. I assume she's young as the bill isn't fully yellow. Twice, while I watched her, a male...

All that thinking about the Croning got me considering Kairos, so I went for a visit. I'd been here a few days earlier for volunteering,...

Silly really that four and a half years after starting this blog, I still feel the need to embrace the Crone phase in a ritual. Surely...

The garden is coming inside. Before the ivy it was that climbing vine. The world seems determined to breach the boundaries. Others have...

Allegedly, I was having a run. I had planned a trip to Cottesbrooke, again, but there was some hideous traffic issue and I gave up....

I found this word jotted down in one of my many disorganised notebooks while I was fruitlessly looking for something I had written about...

Well, sort of good. I went to the Reserve as a volunteer. Said I didn't want to cut down trees but I would labour to make their deceased...

These thoughts were again inspired by Silvia Panizza's book The Ethics of Attention . She writes, "Attention is involved not only in an...

Wet and wintry, but Highgate Woods still had a magical quality. The many-voiced magpie was telling me something significant. I wonder...

Continuing to read Silvia's book and there is this question about the self during attention. Is unselfing merely about removing biases...

One of the people at the Vienna conference was a philosopher called Silvia Panizza who has written a book about the ethics of attention...

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Wendell Berry As I needed to...

Back in the day, when I used to draw and paint, my father used to commend me on the eyes of the animals I was depicting. Eye-contact has...

The Minerva Oak's feet are in the water again! Still, I filmed this meditation. The sound was recorded on the same day at the Reserve but...

Actually, he or she was cheeping rather than singing - but it was so good to see a healthy dunnock! Though, sadly, since I returned from...

These photos and videos are not especially new, but they have recently been published. I wanted to celebrate the fact that when I...

Final photos from Vienna.

My original plan for Austria was to travel to one of the big national parks, with mountains or cascading rivers, with wild cats and maybe...