I am away somewhere there is no electricity. I come to town to look at this screen, drink coffee and send pictures to my mum.
Here are three fruits from my larder of letters, thoughts, poems. I send greetings from a day with SSE winds and an abundance of bats at dusk. The mackerel’s bellies are full of baby sprats, a first. The local swimmers report huge silver shoals of them around their legs. The grey seal rested all day yesterday and gazed at us with huge black eyes. I watched the rise and fall of its sighing bulk and found myself exhaling in time. Mammals relax in similar ways. This morning I returned to the flat rock near where it had lain and spent a good ten minutes on my side enjoying a vertical horizon.
This podcast was first published on Substack on 27th August 2024 with more images, links and a full transcript.
If you cannot afford a paid subscription but would like to comment, or to come along to the online movement workshops, just answer an Uncivil Savant subscriber email and I will comp you 6 months for free.
If my writing has been useful to you or inspired you, or you’d like to say thanks for a particular piece, then you can buymeacoffee.com/carolineross. It’s a virtual tip jar for small one-off payments. I really appreciate it!
Episode 75 - Three boats on a Horizon