Tag: Nature connectedness
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Embracing the Element of Air: A Druid’s Perspective
In my previous post I examined my relationship with the element of Earth and how I use the sensual nature of my body to engage fully with the Web of Life. In this short essay I will offer my thoughts on the nature of AIR This is the most elusive of the four elements. We…
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Sensuality
Unlike the other three elements air is the one we cannot see but it is the most intimate and essential of the four. If my brain is deprived of oxygen for two minutes it begins to die. Each breath that I take is a gift from the air, it penetrates deep into my body and…
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Do you see me?
It’s just near the winter solstice and the earth is cold, it’s been an incredibly wet autumn and early winter and even though the land slopes towards the river there is a slick of water running through the grass. My bare heel touches the soil and due to the muddy nature of everything it sinks…
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Never too old!
I’m just past my 75th time around the sun, where has all this time gone? It’s not unusual to think that it’s all over and there is nothing to contribute so late in life but that is not my way. “I like being old” How often do you hear that said? our society seems to…
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Just Pay Attention!
“Yesterday is a memory, Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the Knowing” These are the words of Ajahn Sumedho the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Center that he gave during a talk. What he meant by this is that our memories are often full of regret and criticism and our projection of the future can be full…
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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…
Muddy Feet 