I have some really exciting nature writing news that I can’t share yet. I’ll tell you in a couple of weeks. Cliffhanger…! Urban Tree Festival highlights, some of my fave bits 9 days of glorious tree nerdery. I participated in 27 hours of the Urban Tree Festival, including 2.5 hours of tree meditations (15 minutes […]
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Weeknotes: Heavenly intersection between trees and writing, pure delight
Nerding out about trees The Urban Tree Festival came at just the right time. 9 days of intensely pleasurable tree nerdery when I have a schedule that’s flexible enough to take full advantage of it. I don’t want the Urban Tree Festival to end. But it will. When it does, I’m intending to nerd out […]
What to write when you’re stuck & the last minute approaches
Okay, this is pretty meta, so bear with me… It was getting late and I still hadn’t thought of what to blog about for today, much less written something. So, I headed to a search engine and looked for ‘what should I blog about quiz’ & ‘what should I blog about today’. Writing a last […]
The week that started 15th June 2020
Retreat Went on an online retreat this week, that replaced the Dharma, Body and Connection to Earth retreat at Gaia House that was cancelled due to the lockdown. Our theme was Decolonizing the mind and cultivating the causes of happiness, led by Anushka Fernandopulle and Bonnie Duran, with guest contribution from Elvina Charley. I’m so […]
The week that started 25th May 2020
Writing ALL the things I got really behind with my weeknotes… Whoops! I’ve been writing other things instead: speculative short story about a world that values busyness over everything else, and the radicals resisting that; I find sci-fi so hard to write, not happy with this one (yet) but really glad I did it short […]
The week that started 20th April 2020
Words and writing Not been writing so much, in terms of writing poetry and books. But, I’m journalling more than usual, which is helping and healing. Kinda going back to the quantities of journalling I used to do. So, that’s good. Bought more stationery to support these habits. Last week I encountered some new words […]
The week that started 6th April 2020
What’s in this week: Wellness Writing, including my new & improved writing techniques My artist date this week, mostly enjoying botanical art online Creativity I’m appreciating COVID-19 and inequity reflections Wellness Re-reading what I’ve written before about how to be well and avoiding burnout (Sep 2019). Writing as healing My new writing technique is unstoppable* […]
The week that started 23rd March 2020
On mental health and the risk of depression I’ve been pretty worried about spiralling back into depression, and I could feel the tendrils of low mood, motivation and energy dragging me down. Thankfully, I was able to realise that early, within a day or so, and do something about it. Some of the things that […]
The week that started 2nd March 2020
Writing Went to a meditation and restoration event, after which I connected with some of my writer friends about writing. Now working on an application for a writing residency I’m really excited about and that seems made for me. Booked onto a writing course too. Feels good to be investing in writing like this. Trees […]
The week that started 11th November
This week I went on a 2 day course called Tree Identification: The Challenge of Early Winter with botanist Ros Bennett. It was brilliant. And now I’m even more into trees than I was before, which I didn’t imagine was possible. Hah! On belonging with trees It’s quite incredible that I can go to places […]