Act as If Nothing Matters – Alan Watts on Letting Go YouTube video by Dream Big Daily

So prescient youtu.be/iwu7pSLyMBg?...

I am so lucky to live where I do. This morning, I stopped by the river that flows through my village to thank all of nature for all that it offers us. I can't be the only one to think that God, whatever version of God you believe in, resides in all of nature.

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

On my better days “The new poetic space of the perambulatory demands a dialogue between its uplifting pastoral qualities that are so essential for our wellbeing, with the post-pastoral awareness of changes und…

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A Rilke poem from Robert Bly YouTube video by Haydn Reiss

I love this translation by Robert Bly of Rilke's poem youtu.be/XS-6q4cvv1k?...

I wonder if we can improve upon the word "coach", especially as it applies to the workplace? I'll go first: Terra-guide. (A facilitator who uses the laws of the natural world as the blueprint for human development. They don't look at you as a machine to be fixed, but as a landscape to be tended.)

Bonjour

Giorgia Bellotti

The plan that springs eternal.

Blossoming South Moravia

“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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I'm not quite there with my research on the post-pastoral or toxic pastoral landscape, but let's just say that there are many strands to it that cojoin with so many things I've inhabited over the years, not least my love of poetry (e.g. Keats, Clare and even Bukowski, who hated green spaces).

Gorgeous Paul. It's raining here today but I still managed my morning constitutional, which was nice. Enjoy your day.

Nature is not a toy “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”― Walt Whitman As I constantly say: you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud; and look at the consequence of all that shit …

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I wish I'd never gone into law. I should have studied comparative theology or, better still, put all my energy into writing, poetry and art.

To be fully present “There are thingsWe live among ‘and to see themIs to know ourselves’.”― George Oppen I took this picture on Saturday afternoon’s walk. Yes, I’ve changed it to black and white, but nothi…

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Wildness Where has the wildness gone? Under the heel of capitalism. Or to put it another way: it’s been enslaved to keep up with our consumerist needs and wants. When or where will it end? What? Consu…

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We Look at the World to See the Earth – Ed Roberson “We look upon the world / to see ourselves in the brief moment that we are of the earth / a small fern in a crevice of the cliff face.” From our latest print volume, Time, read “We Look at the World to See the Earth,” by Ed Roberson.

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Today's blog, which is a slightly different take on the usual "earth rights" proposition juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/g...

A week's worth of walking

Making Time | Michael Valliant Yesterday I made time. I knew I needed to. Stress has been high, sleep has been hard to come by, mental, emotional, and physical clutter were building in my body. I threw books, a notebook, and pens in a bag. Parked at the Oxford Conservation Park, hopped on a skateboard and cruised for a bit.

A new blog that I stumbled into today when doing some research on the term oneing that is credited to Julian of Norwich. I very much like Michael's writing.
www.michaelvalliant.com/making-time/

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I read a very depressing article today about the likely extinction of Emperor Penguins. To me that is far more important than any other "news".

A painting from a couple of years ago. Acrylic on canvas.

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How does one man create so much chaos?

Only one; it flew over our house in South Brent; I suspect it was on its way to somewhere else.

@charliepsych.bsky.social I just saw your post and the first post I read on my RSS feed was this ablerism.micro.blog/2026/04/07/a.... I immediately thought of you. Blessings for the day ahead.

“Sometimes we act in order not to see.”
― James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology

Today's poetry reading is from Mary Oliver's book Devotions. The poem is called "Some Questions You Might Ask."

My morning view whilst out with the pooches, who are now fast asleep.