• Pattern

    Pattern

    Donk,DinkBamboo chimes in a gentle breezeTing, tangSteel chimes a two tone melody.A rose-breasted hummingbird buzzes byFeeder-boundThe house wren insists the woodstack is hersCrickets channeling the background cosmic radiationA persistent click-drone as old as the universe.A phalanx of Canada geese heading south trumpet their exitThe doppler groan of passing cars on Old Church and Mount PleasantThe…

  • The hedger and John Clare

    The hedger and John Clare

    Each hedge is loaded thick wi greenAnd where the hedger late hath beenTender shoots begin to growFrom the mossy stumps belowWhile sheep and cow that teaze the grainwill nip them to the root againThey lay their bill and mittens byeAnd on to other labours hie John Clare, in ‘May’ from ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ (1827) We can’t let…

  • Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)

    Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)

    In which I carve spoons , listen to podcasts and take a brief, meandering walk through post-pandemic society via ‘”doomer optimisim”, situated cognition, Cynefin, beauty and the on-going wonderful experiment at Mount Wolfe Farm. I spent a lovely few hours yesterday making carving billets from a bit of sugar maple and roughing out an eating…

  • Place, Land and Work: how do we start to belong?

    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…

  • Edges, Boundaries, InBetweens: Continuing Explorations in Liminal Space

    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…