Category: Landscape
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The Schoolhouse in the Woods: An Earth Day Long Read
Happy Earth Day! Despite my best intentions for a monthly long blog this is only my second of 2023! This wasn’t intended as an Earth Day blog, but its seems apt to be publishing this today as a story about connection to place, love of natural landscape through art and community, and renewal. I have…
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Singing My Way Back Home
I’m preparing a Spanish tortilla in my folks kitchen. I can only describe the sounds coming out of my phone as “fluid landscape”. The Reeling by Brighde Chaimbeul, the award-winning young piper from Skye. We had a family holiday on Skye in September 1998 that I will never forget, and the Reelings are bringing back…
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Where is the Centre of the World? Between your own two feet.
I’m sat in the ‘Ponder’ at my parents home in West Sussex, where I’m based for my Winter Holiday visit to the UK. The wind is whooping around and the blasts of rain on the glass roof and walls sound like pebbles on a tin roof. Mum and Dad are in the cosy living room…
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Place, Land and Work: how do we start to belong?
“….Hope Then to belong to your place by your own knowledge Of what it is that no other place is, and by Your caring for it as you care for no other place, this Place that you belong to though it is not yours, For it was from the beginning and will be to the…
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Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space
‘The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.’” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed 1974 In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the…
James T Jones 