Recently I read a science article on eDNA (e=environmental). It concerned the identification of ancient plant and animal life in Greenland which demonstrated that at least 2,000,000 years ago it was a verdant landscape where Mastodon and other fauna and flora flourished. It shows that the climate back then must have been at least 15-20o … Continue reading “Continuity and Order on the Path of Return”
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‘What Price Progress: 2’
The kitten climbs the rose arbour with grace and ease, legs around the upright wooden posts, claws dug in, much like the method olden day lumberjacks used (only with straps and spiked metal attachments on their boots in place of claws) to climb trees. Every now and then he pauses as if to allow his … Continue reading ‘What Price Progress: 2’
‘Opening to a New Vision – 2021’
I’ve become a grumpy old man without even properly acknowledging it. Is it the pain I wonder? Or is it a natural progression from active to passive in relation to things outward? Does this inward turning not always come at the expense of the other, particularly as one ages? I think so, for often the … Continue reading ‘Opening to a New Vision – 2021’
‘A Scattering of Bones: A Response to Covid 19’
‘A Scattering of Bones’ Why do we hang on to life? Why, in these currently troubling times where even normal intercourse between self and other is curtailed, do we cling to this idea of form that keeps us in servitude to forces beyond our control? Recently I wrote a piece entitled ‘The Ram, the Lamb, … Continue reading ‘A Scattering of Bones: A Response to Covid 19’
Tracks in a Pathless Land 