Crossbones
Crossbones is a remarkable restoration and tribute to the "Winchester Geese", the sex workers of Medieval London. John Constable had a vision and "received" poems from one of the women and led a project to [...]
Medicinal plants
As it turns out the GEx in Wisconsin was nothing like I imagined or hoped it would be but rich for me nonetheless. I feel sad that I did not have my camera that day [...]
Afghan Peace Volunteers 2019
This is a photo of some of the Afghan Peace Volunteers working in the garden at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre in Kabul. They are using permaculture design methods. From left to right were: Mina, [...]
Solastalgia
Wounded Place: Climate change This year we photographed a dead female Wallaby at the top of Wallaby Close. She must have hopped into the path of a car last night. Road kill is a huge [...]
Ten Years in a Row
My best friend, Rusty K, second generation Irish, who has attended all of the annual Earth Exchanges I have hosted when they were in the environs of where we live in the northwest corner of [...]
Church of the Woods Earth Exchange
The people of Church of the Woods in Canterbury, NH, USA, gathered on a little knoll amidst a forest that is vibrantly regrowing after destructive logging. Humans have cut forests around the globe for centuries, [...]
Anointing Land
Mid-winter and raining finely. I chose this piece of land because I pass it every day. It is both wounded and beautiful, like me and most of us. Wounded as it includes a polluted stream, [...]
Pilgrimage in a Burnt Forest
I head into the Sierras to explore the area burnt by the Donnell Fire in 2018. Wikipedia says that 36,450 acres (147.5 km2) were burnt, but I don’t have any concept of what that means. [...]
Unsung Heroes
We have been carrying this magical thread with us, everywhere, since we returned from DC to Seattle. It went with us to the Olympic Peninsula, to North Cascades, through countless tiny towns across Washington, Idaho, [...]