Welcome to my blog

As I sit here at my computer to start this new blog its just two days past Imbolc, the beginnings of spring and the time for planting seeds and starting new projects so it seems opportune.

So first, a bit about me.

At the time of writing this I am 73, living in the west of Scotland surrounded by oak trees. My house is situated in the Sunart Acid Oak Woodlands,

This is site of special scientific interest that stretches for about twenty miles along the shores of Loch Sunart forming the southern border of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.

https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2018-02/The%20Story%20of%20Ariundle%20Oakwood%20National%20Nature%20Reserve.pdf

I am a Druid, a member of The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, this is a nature based spiritual community that celebrates the passing seasons with eight festivals throughout the year. You can find out more about Druidry at druidry.org

So I ask myself why I am sitting here writing this blog? For over twenty years I taught yoga and whilst I did make money teaching yoga that was never my sole aim. During those years I had a simple aim for each class and that was that when the students went home, they left feeling better than when they had arrived, but, and this is the point so did I. It was about sharing and communicating. Being part of a community and that is what this blog is about. Its an opportunity for me to share my life with you but in the hope that this will become a dialog and that you will share part of your life with me in the form of comments and ideas.

10 responses to “Welcome to my blog”

  1. barbarajentzsch1942 Avatar
    barbarajentzsch1942

    Fascinating 🌄

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  2. Just read the recent article in The Guatdian about you and Lynn. Looking forward to learning more about the druid way…

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  3. I’m a nature lover and beginning quilter. My husband and I are newly retired and I am trying to figure out how to restructure my life and how I want to spend my time. I also love reading but it’s become like a “rabbit hole” that keeps me inside and isolated…

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  4. I read the article in the Guardian, which led me to your blog. What an unexpected delight and inspiration your blog, and the life you and your wife have chosen, is for someone living in “the swamp” of Washington DC. I look forward to reading more posts.

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  5. I am 73 and have lived remotely for 10 years in a coastal town in British Columbia. The dark winters take a toll but it is offset by the quiet and slow pace of life. The grizzlies , cougars, and wolves share this idyllic space with people of pioneering spirit who choose to live outside of the hustle bustle of city life. I recently discovered the art and craft of knotting in the form of macrame’ and although it comforts me during this rainforest’s wintry period, it also encourages me to sit inside rather than venture out into the elements. I feel druidry’s call. Thank you for your blog which was sent to me by my sister…perhaps she is beginning to understand my life choice after all.

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    1. Hello Sophia, We share a lot, I’m the same age as you and whilst we don’t have the apex wildlife that you have we do have dark wet winters, its on those occassions that I often feel the call to venture out naked into the wilderness to experience the wild in all its magnificence.

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  6. Penelope Cumas Avatar
    Penelope Cumas

    It’s just delightful to read you. I want more blogs, many more. My life is the opposite of yours. I live in my beloved city of Montreal where like everywhere else the builders are not only blocking our view of Mount Royal , but of the very sky itself. On certain streets leading south from our central mountain-hill we could once catch glimpses,
    now becoming rarer and rarer of the great St. Lawrence river – le fleuve Saint-Laurent – that flows serenely below as it cuts a wide swath through the built environment north and south. Every once in a while the urge to escape and bathe myself in wilderness nags at me. I know that I could never live your lifestyle; for me it could only be a cleansing escape. It’s not solely a question of age but at 13 years your senior, I know myself. I love nature, the purity of it, the savageness, the less groomed wilderness but I am fated by my nature and circumstance

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    1. Bless you Penelope, thank you for the kind words, yes I’ll keep blogging and adding pictures, it’s about reaching. Expect a post about every two weeks…you might like to subscribe then you’ll get a prompt…

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  7. I feel very attracted to your blog, being interested in Scottish nature, natural spirituality, and slowly becoming an elder person. Perhaps some day even an Elder with capital E 😉 . I’ve subscribed and I’m looking forward to your posts!

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    1. Thank you for your kind words, I intend to put out a blog about every two weeks..

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