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The fact that we are causing climate change means that we can stop it getting worse. If we choose to. We need our artists and writers more than ever to help personalize these issues, to engage our hearts and souls and to engender self-belief and confidence in our ability to tackle what otherwise seem overwhelming, long-term or remote intellectual concerns. We need more positive role models which reflect the values we think are most important. Writers and artists can voice our concerns and build up our confidence to act. By experimenting with different scenarios, they can lessen our fear of change, appealing to people’s right brain: heart, soul, gut, eyes, fingers, ears, and skin; they can immerse readers in, and create a mood for, new thinking in a way that constant recycling of the science simply cannot. They , more than anyone, can help interpret what the future might look like, and take the fear out of change….. Undoubtedly we face daunting challenges, both domestically and globally. But if we want a chance to prevent the worst, to choose our path rather than to have it forced upon us, then we need to take responsibility and act now. We need to be creative. Resourceful. Thrifty. Some of us will be brilliant, entrepreneurial. Maybe, at last, we will learn as a species to work within natural limits and the parameters of a stable climate. And if we can get there, then just imagine for a moment what we might be able to achieve.

Mike Robinson (via summermercer)

To me, Celtic indigeneity is a calling to belong to something greater, something luminous stitched throughout the horizontal and vertical realms of life. Celtic indigeneity is an initiation, a coupling with the land/elements, with my soul-self and with the web that meshes, coils and weaves it all together. My way of being in the world now has been birthed, cultured and tempered by Celticity. An ever-twining reverence and responsibility gleaned through deep listening to the wildish calling of the open moor, to the hungry feasting of white brine waves and the graveled Gaelic flowing from wise and foolish tongues travels with me in and beyond the Celtic lands. As a result of this listening I am more alive and awake, actively practicing the full-body knowing that I am in relationship with it All.

Tracy Chipman

Since my first fate-loaded and humbling arrival onto Scottish soil many October moons ago the Celtic paradigm has offered me a solid re-connection to place and an unequaled soul education – instruc...

All Chris Drury

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This variation on the (endlessly adaptable) traditional Mongolian yurt design was inspired by the work of master yurt builder, educator, and homesteader Bill Coperthwaite (who was also a neighbor and friend of the Nearings). This low-cost yurt design combines basketry, wattle and daub, and basic lashing (similar to skin-on-frame boats). Not much more than a glorified tent, this DIY yurt made from sticks, string and mud makes a very comfortable, durable and beautiful tiny house, studio, or meditation space.

Scottish Highland Travellers - The Summer Walkers

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Writer and storyweaver Sharon Blackie

HOUSE PRICES may be rocketing but this Hobbit-esque house was built for just £150.

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A Kalderari Romani man. 1865. A photo from J.Ficowsky's book “Gypsies in Poland”

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ART-IFACT from The 8th Day by Colby Vincent Edwards, William Franevsky and Jarrett Scherff

"The collaborative group created a plethora of weapons and costumes, wrapped with twine, adorned with teeth, leathers, weathered and dented and tested in the manner in which they would be in everyday use. They carefully documented the civilization in which these weapons were wrought, with beautifully textured black and white photographs that look timeless, in a sense that they lack their own time. The carefully and outrageously detailed tools and costumes are displayed as artifacts, which makes them seem mythological in their origin. The 8th day manages to combine so many contrasting concepts, a child wanderer who is also a man with a mission, an authentic world that is also a completely manufactured reality, an attention to detail which is coupled with a complete lack of specifics, of where, when, how and why. Being a lone ranger or being one of a tribe. Overly decorative tools which at the same time seem purely utilitarian. Survival from the harsh elements of nature which conversely provides your only means of survival. The close detail shots of tools and costumes create a sense of intimacy despite the absence of names, places, and faces. All of these juxtapositions are echoed in the craftsmanship of the photographs; high contrasts with rich blacks, and blank white collodion skies. There are clear connections and influences to Hollywood’s rendition of post-apocalyptic stories, crust punks who hop freight trains, and indigenous cultures. In the most delightful way The 8thDay creates a dark childhood fantasy and makes it real. It tests all your urges and curiosities about your own capabilities and makes you want to be self-sufficient and find your way by the stars."

I completely love this. Exactly the kind of thing I want to create with spring nomad in the sense i will live in the objects I create, and they will exist as a leftover, an artifact of living art practice.

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Taken from Gypsy Witchcraft & Magic, by Raymond Buckland

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Indigenous Highland Travellers

"In Scottish Gaelic they are known as the "Ceàrdannan" ("the Craftsmen"), or less controversially, "luchd siubhail" (people of travel) for travellers in general. Poetically known as the "Summer Walkers", Highland Travellers are a distinct ethnic group and may be referred to as "traivellers", "traivellin fowk'", in Scots, "tinkers", originating from the Gaelic "tinceard" or (tinsmith) or "Black Tinkers".[21] Mistakenly the settled Scottish population may call all travelling and Romani groups tinkers, which is usually regarded as pejorative, and contemptuously as "tinks" or "tinkies"

Highland Travellers are closely tied to the native Highlands, and many traveller families carry clan names like Macfie,[23]Stewart, MacDonald, Cameron, Williamson and Macmillan. They follow a nomadic or settled lifestyle; passing from village to village and are more strongly identified with the native Gaelic speaking population. Continuing their nomadic life, they would pitch their bow-tents on rough ground on the edge of the village and earn money there as tinsmiths, hawkers, horse dealersor pearl-fishermen. Many found seasonal employment on farms, e.g. at the berry picking or during harvest. Since the 1950s, however, the majority of Highland Travellers have settled down into organized campsites or regular houses."

Buy The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-fishers in the Highlands of Scotland by Timothy Neat (ISBN: 9781841581996) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.

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New Age Travellers - Outsiders

Loch Avon in the Cairngorms

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