Tag: Environment
-
Black Mountains and Beyond 2: Hedgelaying, Ancestry, Narratives and thoughts about Back-to-the-Land movements.
At the end of a splendid week on the road with my Canadian friend Andrew Millward visiting the Black Mountains College (see previous post) we connected with my old buddy Nigel Adams in Oxford. Nigel took Andrew and I for a days hedge-laying in Henley. It was supposed to be two days, but at Nigel’s…
-
The Black Mountains and Beyond: A Road Trip Brain Dump
Talgarth, South Wales. This is my first blog in a while and is really just a collection of thoughts and ideas that have been surfacing, or have surfaced during this road trip, arranged in no particular order! Its going to be a bit fragmented while I get down lots of ideas to follow up later.…
-
Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth
This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…
-
Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1
Many years ago in my early 20s when I first started walking in the landscapes UK just for the sheer pleasure of it, I might find a track along the edge of a field, or between two fields, bordered on both or either side by a hedgerow. I would walk along side it, comprehending the…
-
Savage Gods: Paul Kingsnorth may at last have found the real enemy of the environment, and they are words themselves.
Cooling off for six hours in a police cell in Esher, Surrey, in 1997, with King Arthur Pendragon taking up residence in the cell next door, I had a moment to reflect on the power of words, language and stories. We had both been arrested at…
James T Jones 