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Embracing Nature Through Nakedness
Thoughts and photos! Any of you that read my blog on a regular basis will know that I regularly spend time completely naked and barefoot out in nature. I live in a remote area surrounds by tens of square miles of open access land that is completely unpopulated which allows me this wonderful opportunity. So…
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Sacred..
I am a Druid and one aspect of Druidry that I like is the fact there is no dogma, it is a personal path. We joke that if you asked one hundred Druids what Druidry is for them? You are likely to get at least one hundred and ten different answers. But there are something…
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I am Spirit
So are you, well that’s my belief….whatever your belief, religion or if you have no faith at all the reality is that there is something inside of us that animates us. What do you call it? Quoting from the website of Aubrey Marcus. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of…
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Stillness in activity?
I’ve just been on a seven day druid retreat and it’s been quite a revelation. A druid friend who was also on the retreat said to me before I went that it would be nothing like any retreat that I had done before. Since I was 36 I have been fortunate enough to be able…
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Spot the changes
Where I live in Ardnamurchan the house is located in what the Scots would call a “wee glen”. The land to the east rises steeply to about 350 metres and to the west although not so steep we are still sheltered from the worst of the weather which comes predominately from the west. Whilst in…
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Slow on the uptake?
Sometimes I can be a bit thick, rather slow on the uptake. What I am referring to is with regard to matters of a spiritual nature. I’m going to a Druid retreat shortly and have offered to lead an afternoon centred around a very old Yew tree. Planning how this would work out it fits…
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Wonderment
It’s the 4th day of March as I write this post and at last after a very wet winter here on the west coast of Scotland we have had a few dry days, we have even had sunshine. But clear sky means relatively cold mornings and this morning as I wandered my way up the…
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Gratitude
So where do you find happiness? What exactly is happiness? When I first started down the path of meditation, attending classes at the local Buddhist monastery I was stuck by the teaching that all things are impermanent and sitting on a hard meditation cushion it soon became obvious that thoughts and emotion that I was…
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Watch this space!
There is a joke among the Druid community that you can ask ten Druids what Druidry is about and you will get at least twelve different answers. However the one thing that Druids will all agree on is the wheel of the year. This is a calendar of festivals that combine the solar events of…
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Too much information?
Today 13th January 2023 I was mentioned in an article published in the Guardian Newspaper. It came about because they were looking for men to comment on the rise in Male Grooming and Self Care. So I wrote a few words on how I live my life and my final comments were “It was a…
Muddy Feet
Meeting nature on nature's terms
A blog about my life as a Druid living in the Oak woods of Ardnamurchan
Muddy Feet 