Between the bright fields and the dark hedges
Walking in Devon is, like life itself, much about weaving through the shadow and the light – bounding through sun scorched fields and ducking into the emerald dappled holloways. I arrived at dusk, and...
View ArticleA Town Day & what is ‘essential’
I am always impressed by people who busk with a harp. But children busking with a harp is truly heroic. And the end goal of their efforts commands immense respect – watch the video very carefully! I...
View ArticleThe Ripening Fruits of My Journey
One might think, when moving mainly on foot, that the leaf turnings and the fruit ripenings and the seed formings would somehow happen at a similar pace to my own slow transformation. Or at least that...
View ArticleThe Personalities of the Path
The other day, a kind reader of this blog sent me a lovely quote. It reminded her of what I am doing. It reminded me of the myriad miracles I pass every day, and the many different personalities of the...
View ArticleThe Pitch of the Landscape
As I walked down the lanes, through the wooded bridleways along the streams and up the tracks, towards the open expanse of Dartmoor, I passed ancient hamlets of cob and thatch. As I rounded the bend,...
View ArticleBrewing Umber
I feel as if a new colour has been made. With her earthy autumnal reds and my mossy greens, mixed with the liquid light of this Dartmoor summer, cooked for some days over a wood stove and dusted with...
View ArticleWood & Wabe
I am nearing the end of my journey on foot. My walking stick began its journey at Sprint Mill in Cumbria as a length of seasoned hazel awaiting transformation into a tool handle. But I found it there,...
View ArticleA Harvest from the Ever Turning
As the wheels of time roll on, we all turn the matter that we gather into the matter that we are. So it is wise to gather well. What have I learned from all this? What will I take away? To be frank, I...
View ArticleAcross Country
In my last few days of wayfaring, I have been straddling the borders: of England and Wales, of ending and beginning, of immersion in the landscape and transit through it. Just before the end of my...
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