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Discovered Words: Deorfrith
Deorfrith [translation unknown, Dee-OR-free-/th/zh/G??]: Deer Sanctuary. A really pleasing find today, an Anglo-Saxon word discovered through Imaginal Futures, used in documents to refer to the deer parks created by the Normans when they conquered Britain. However, writer Tim Russell does some excellent work reclaiming and decolonizing this word in the above article, and Iāve endeavored to add aā¦
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Happy Winter Solstice, comrades!
Today marks the furthest tilt that our little planet takes from the sun, and as such, the longest night and shortest day. In this year of all years, a time to hold close, to tend fires. This morning, a friend shared a John OāDonohue poem; Ā On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window Andā¦
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The Role of Myth in the Anthropocene, Pt II
In rather alarming news, the answer to this question is starting to look, hop, and scamper like a research project. Dear Gods! When the Work calls you, when you call the Workā¦ I guess the question could be otherwise asked as; How does fantasy survive the Anthropocene? But worries for my sanity, TBR list, and general caffeine intake aside ā I found this article discussion by Mary Woodbury fromā¦
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New Storygame: Tree Seasons
New Storygame: TreeĀ Seasons
Iāve been working on a thing. Ā A tiny wee collaborative game about stories, about growing, and what nourishes us. And maybe thinking a bit more tree-like about it all. Ā Inspired by: Joanna Macy, David Abrams, Ty Canol Woods, Robert Macfarlane. Ā Iām crossing fingers that sheāll be ready before Dec 21st Winter Solstice 2020. Just like Mixtape, Love-Notes, and Big Brother, Little Brother āā¦
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Strange Marvels
8.38 am. It starts as a scattering few, a straggle of long-winged gulls crossing the bright morning skies over my tiny garden. Itās Fenland out there, out beyond the city I live in. Itās Wash and itās flatland, miles and miles of reclaimed marsh and flood-spill turned into perfect squares of monocrop. Sometimes, when youāre driving in the dusk along the tiny roads between ditched and raisedā¦
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Some Podcasts & a Soundtrack
While winter settles and the days seem all so brief outside, here are a few of the things Iāve been decorating my time with. Enjoy!
Ā Podcasts:
This is Love ā portraits and interviews of what relationships, affection, friendship and care can look like, by Phoebe Judge & Lauren Spohrer.
The Memory Palace ā memories, places, objects and events often forgot, by Nat DiMeo.
Shortcutsā intimate,ā¦
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Barktongue Beyond the practical reasons for learning toĀ identify bark, I realize that I have been learningĀ and teaching the art of perception.
Statement of Intent
Little Fen House: Recycled Pallet Shed Build
Little Fen House: Recycled Pallet ShedĀ Build
So, with my second Lockdown I have been making a pallet shed for the allotment. (The considerably littler goth shed next to my neighbour Artorās much more impressive pallet-mansion on the left)ā¦
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Routes Found!
I love it when this happens, been thinking about this possible project and-
https://twitter.com/IanFeral/status/1288013633532895233
ā whatās this delightful ālittleā [sic] exercise dropping through my mail box a couple days later? This wonderful exercise in practical animism by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in Emergence Magazineās moleskine Practice Booklet.
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Song Carrying
!! Ahhh, Emergence Magazineā¦
Foraging through the back issues and found this, David G. Haskell on Listening to the Language of Birds. Unsurprising to any solitary readers of this little corner of the webs, Iām a total fan:
The Language if Crows
The Language of Sparrows
Now, full confession: Iām no great twitcher. My human cloth-ears and dulled senses struggle to identify each call, but I dontā¦
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What is the Role of Myth in the Anthropocene?
āWhen the tread is thinnestā¦when we sense the tragedy of endingsā¦when life and grace is threatened by deafness and uglinessā¦when tenderness is bulliedā¦when fences of enclosure overshadow the last scrap of commonsā¦then, which is now, comes a ferocity on the side of life, to protect, to cherish and to envoice what cannot speak in human language.ā
Quoted on Terri Windlingās blog Myth and Moor; Jayā¦
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Tiny Garden 2020
A little embattled with this yearsā drought and weather conditions, but this is the latest little garden that Iāve been involved with. Everything is container grown given the patio space, with hastily thrown up pallet-shelves to try and add a bit of vertical gardening into the mix. Weāve got some truly monstrous Partenon Courgettes, Rainbow Chard, Kelvedon Peas, Purple Tee-Pee Beans ā and thisā¦
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Errata 06/20: Bristol's Finest, Literary Theory, & The Eco Test
Errata 06/20: Bristolās Finest, Literary Theory, & The EcoĀ Test
Personal:Ā The small, private familiarity of being hit by a freshness of Sweet Pea fragrance again. They were planted late, yet bloomed early.
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Idea: The Toppling of Edward Colston; a sea-shanty set in the fine tradition of political folk songs.
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Idea: Everyone knows the Bechdel-Wallace Test, right? I wonder if, in our current age of the Anthropocene, with the rise of cli-fi and eco-fiction,ā¦
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Arundhati Roy: Our Task, (in the Virus Years)
Arundhati Roy: Our Task, (in the VirusĀ Years)
In very much the same way as the coronavirus has entered human bodies and amplified existing illnesses, it has entered countries and societies and amplified their structural infirmities and illnesses. It has amplified injustice, sectarianism, racism, casteism and above all class inequality.
Arundhati Roy āOur Task is to Disable The Machineā Progressive International, 02/05/2020.
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Distanced Futures During the virus years we would trade sourdough starters and kimchi, jam and bread and stranger concoctions, sneaking over garden walls to leave them on doorstops and windowsills.
Earth Day, 2020
Happy Earth Day, from a wayward son.
It is hard to characterize my feelings for this weird little rock today, at a time when so much of our access to it has been curtailed, and so much of it is still so in danger from all of those ills we already know about; the habitat loss, species extinction, acidification, continued extraction, the list goes on and onā¦
Iām certainly no poet, but Iāve beenā¦
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