Goodness me Caroline, what can I say? Thanks so much for your generous post! The greatest compliment, and what made me most happy to hear, is that our recent piece has cheered you up and made you feel more at home in the world. I'll be sure to add your practices to our "seed catalogue" that I am working on this week :)
I am loving the spillover here from Ruth and Peco's post. Thanks for sharing more Caroline! I also feel stopped up and stifled on days I don't do something in the creative vein and/or fresh outdoor air. I get a little cranky, as my husband and kids will attest.
Full disclosure, I am just reading chapter 28 first, as Iain and I were recently talking about some of it. I have not read the rest yet of either volume. I don't feel like I have had time to read all year! But the good news is your book Exogenesis arrived in the mail today, so now I have that to read too.
Growing herbs and plants in my urban front garden that I process into medicines and teas for myself, partner and friends; tending all the wildflowers I can so that the bees, hummingbirds, moths and butterflies have a place to eat and rest; plucking the strings of my grandmother’s balalaika and learning old songs; singing publicly with the trees (not on show, just as songs arise between us) and saying hello to each human I pass on my walks, as odd and awkward as it can be; I only read Substack online, otherwise it’s only paper books for me; learning old folk and fairytales to share with all my nieces and nephews and adult friends (blood and chosen alike); preparing as much food as I can from scratch, always; holding rites of passage for my community (death, birth, first and last blood, marriages).
Thank you for asking and paying their question forward 🌸
I spent the evening singing trad folk songs in the pub
Yessss
Goodness me Caroline, what can I say? Thanks so much for your generous post! The greatest compliment, and what made me most happy to hear, is that our recent piece has cheered you up and made you feel more at home in the world. I'll be sure to add your practices to our "seed catalogue" that I am working on this week :)
I am loving the spillover here from Ruth and Peco's post. Thanks for sharing more Caroline! I also feel stopped up and stifled on days I don't do something in the creative vein and/or fresh outdoor air. I get a little cranky, as my husband and kids will attest.
Thanks so much for your support, and for that amazing list of anachronistic practices.
And then, on top of it all, to read a massive tome like The Matter of Things!
Full disclosure, I am just reading chapter 28 first, as Iain and I were recently talking about some of it. I have not read the rest yet of either volume. I don't feel like I have had time to read all year! But the good news is your book Exogenesis arrived in the mail today, so now I have that to read too.
Growing herbs and plants in my urban front garden that I process into medicines and teas for myself, partner and friends; tending all the wildflowers I can so that the bees, hummingbirds, moths and butterflies have a place to eat and rest; plucking the strings of my grandmother’s balalaika and learning old songs; singing publicly with the trees (not on show, just as songs arise between us) and saying hello to each human I pass on my walks, as odd and awkward as it can be; I only read Substack online, otherwise it’s only paper books for me; learning old folk and fairytales to share with all my nieces and nephews and adult friends (blood and chosen alike); preparing as much food as I can from scratch, always; holding rites of passage for my community (death, birth, first and last blood, marriages).
Thank you for asking and paying their question forward 🌸