July Shipway – Yoga through the year https://www.yogathroughtheyear.com/blog?fbclid=IwAR1Xa1XdHS_YDzKrhW1oLlsrpSpQ2fTVADW-0Zx3tifeAo9UMQKfONG_vGA The Celtic festival of gratitude and first seeds, Lammas, is on August 2nd this year. It’s the time of first harvest, and in this newsletter we’ll be looking at ways that we can acknowledge and celebrate our own personal harvest, as well as remembering to say thank you Read more about First harvest Yoga[…]
BBC R4 – Open Country – Green Pavementshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lf9v
This spring and early summer were unusually wet in our part of the Shenandoah Valley. It rained and rained, resulting in lush lawns and uncommon garden growth through the first part of August. Now though, we are in a dry spell. I spend the first part of every morning out in our vegetable garden with Read more about Goddess of the dry spell – Danna Faulds[…]
The Peace of Wild Things” Written and read by Wendell BerryListen When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great Read more about The peace of wild things – Wendell Berry[…]
Lisa Lester – Witch five pointed pointed pentagram the universal symbol of The witch and one you’ll find when you cut through the centre of an apple the fruit that eve was banished from Eden for eating and at each point of pentagram, she calls in A powerful witch archetype Guidess the force of nature, Read more about Witch Reclamation[…]
The rain is coming. There on the horizon the cloud bank forms rising in plumes, like smoke signals Confirming the forecast. But for now there is quiet. Just the bees buzzing around the fading jasmine. The gentlest breeze touching the tips of the stems, stalks, grasses and branches, receptive outliers. Then comes something stronger, a Read more about July the 13th[…]
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/sites/climaterealityproject.org/files/WaterCycle.pdf As temperatures rise, evaporation increases and soils dry out. When rain does come,it often falls as a violent downpour that doesn’t do much to help crops or other plants. Instead of gently soaking into the soil, the water hits very hard ground and runs off, often causing disastrous flooding before draining into rivers and Read more about The Water Cycle and Climate change[…]
It is early morning,before the world wakes up. I open the front door. And here is heavensitting waiting for me to remember it. Geese and gulls fly across the sky sounding their distinct calls through the valley. Giant hydrangea blooms and tiny jasmine flowers abound. Up the garden, the first aquilegia seeds and a single Read more about Heaven[…]
SINGING NATURE BACK TO LIFEthelostwordsTHE AUTHORSROBERT MACFARLANESeek, find, speak• ThecreatorsofTheLostWordsdescribeitas:’‘abeautifulprotest’againstthe loss of everyday nature from our everyday lives in Britain and beyond’ and refers to Brecht:In the dark timesWill there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. JACKIE MORRISSeek, find, speak, createJackie Morris speaks of the ‘sleeping seed of a Read more about Lost word spell songs[…]