Interaction

I am intrinsically a loner, except when I’m with other weavers.  It’s not that I’m socially inept – far from it, I hope – but that I choose whose company I wish to be in.  I can occasionally do ‘hail fellow, well met’ types of conversation, but general girly...

Protectionism

Just in case you are wondering, this isn’t a blog about our current economic climate.  It’s actually about our local farmers and the change of generations. One thing that has been of particular pleasure to me in my neck of the woods is the willingness of local farmers...

Making Space for Change

I may have mentioned before that I am a Psychologies reader.  This morning, whilst reading a piece on the healing properties of trees with my early morning cuppa, I read a short paragraph from a reader who said “I was drawn to a large tree standing alone.  It had...

Time

Time is something we feel we have so little of, and we frantically rush around trying to get things done in the time that we have.  But of course, time is an artificial construct – a man-made construct which is supposed to be there to be a framework.  Yet, as with so...

Coming to our Senses

I’ve recently been posting about listening to what’s going on in nature around me when I’m walking, and I was really pleased to see a whole section in the 2nd edition of 2009 of TPM – The Philosophers’ Magazine – about coming to our...