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Smell the roses?
My wife is a strict vegetarian and therefore so am I. I do eat meat when we are out visiting and use cafes and restaurants but when I am at home then I am happy to eat vegetarian food. It’s always delicious and cooked and served with love. The reason I stared this blog with…
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The Rhythm of Life
At the end of my last blog Gift of the song I left you with the name of a song that I had been gifted by a fallen Oak tree. Here is a link to the actual song in its entirety https://soundcloud.com/kingwjohn/rhythm-of-life?fbclid=IwAR3F69vKR7tRcFBrccMrZqViHZQmVvGUOZ-JKAlhdtOeOBkHjhVOJlySX_M In July I had the chance to attend a body painting weekend and this…
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Gift of the song
It was January and I was sitting in my meditation lodge as the rain battered down on the roof and the wind howled in the trees. I was journeying to the sound of my drum, flying high seeking the answer to a question that had been troubling me for some time. There was a huge…
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The Milk Line
We’re all familiar with the idea of blood line, the way in which our parents, grand parents and great grand parents pass on their genetic material to us down the ages and how this influences us, from our eye colour and in some cases how we behave. But the milk line refers to those people…
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Meeting Nature on Nature’s Terms
I walk naked throughout the year and whilst it is reasonable to suppose that a wander in the woods on a day like that depicted in this photo is perfect, there is another perspective. It was a truely lovely afternoon when I left my house to enjoy some time alone in the woodland that surrounds…
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Falling in Love
You might find this a surprising heading for a blog about Druidry and the natural world but in fact Falling in Love, is what so often happens. Some of you may have seen the article in The Guardian on the 3rd April 2023 entitled A new start after 60, which featured what happened to me…
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Time alone
Beltain is one of my favourite times of the year, the other is Samhain which coincidentally is opposite to Beltain on the wheel of the year calendar. Here on the west coast of Scotland after a cold and wet winter we had a few days of sunshine towards the end of April and spring arrived…
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A place apart
In my last post I wrote about the construction of my retreat cabin and the journey back into the ancestry of the land on which it is built. Whilst it is a special place for me I have not always had such a perfect place for my time alone. However I have always sought out…
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Ancestors
Within the modern druid tradition we are encouraged to consider those that have gone before us and to draw on their wisdom. But I also enjoy considering and unravelling the ancestory of the land where I am living. When we lived on Eilean Shona the work that had been carried out, particularly during the Vitorian…
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Skyclad?
Skyclad, naked, nude, in the buff, starkers all words that we use in the UK to describe what to me is a natural state. This morning I was featured in the Guardian newspaper and the first photo to introduce the article was this. It was taken in the woods above my house and as you…
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 