The Island Of The Last Nun
This sequence of poems is based on the meditative practices centred around a journey my spiritual mentor, Jayne Johnson, undertook for me. In this journey, I was taken to an island and instructed to meditate within a ruined clochán.
The Problem with the Term “Pre-Columbian”
Magnificent monuments, pyramids, architecture, crafted forests, agricultural and medicinal technologies, possibly 100 million people scattered across some 40 million square kilometers of land are all placed in the shadow of this one man. This is too unrealistic to be scientific.
Realists of a Larger Reality
The introduction to Rhyd Wildermuth’s latest book., Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other.
Curious Creatures
The folk beast is an archaic terror, and that is at least a part of its continuing power and of its continuing appeal.
Vinyl Paganism
What I call “vinyl paganism” means consciously choosing technologies that allow us to slow down, pay attention, be present in place and in our bodies, and let the more-than-human world speak to us in its own way.
Swan cubs and Trampoline
- Look, this is how quiet I can be,
the child said to a star in the sky
An Ode to the Game of Poker
The biggest obstacles to women in the poker world are: “having the money to play and the confidence in their ability to win.”
Of Chaos and Of Monsters
“Change will come even — and especially — for this order, too.”
The new author’s introduction to True To The Earth, by Kadmus
Into the Wild Woods: Beneath the Boughs in Summer
Time is a funny thing out in the woods, seeming to stand still and yet be constantly shifting, an ode to the ever turning wheel of the year and the ebb and flow of the seasons.
Re-Placing Ourselves
The reason we are increasingly disconnected is because we are losing the places where we connect. Real places. Places with history. Places that bound up in a network of relationships. And if we are ever to find one another again, we have to find those places again.
Announcing a new edition of True To The Earth!
A revised and updated edition of one of our best sellers, also in hardback!
Separating organic waste can prevent leptospirosis and save lives
Leptospirosis is a disease caused by the failure of basic sanitation services, the overcrowding of municipalities in favor of the real estate market, and by inhuman levels of social inequality.