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More-than-human ways of knowing: bees
One of the strongest mental cravings that drew me to research is to spend time on synthesis. I love the complexity of seeing the connections in everything. As a person who tends to see the bigger picture in anything from pulling my car into a drop-off-zone with others in-front and behind me, or standing back…
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Experiences of writing
I’m speeding through Writing your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (Second Edition) by Wendy Laura Belcher. Speeding, because as a distance student it’s a three week flexible delivery loan. I may have to purchase the book rather than post it hundreds of kilometres back and forth, otherwise I may start confusing our friendly local postman…
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Save the Trees! In the 1600s
I’ve been looking back into the origins and roots of the word ‘sustainability’, from German forestry practices, dating back to 1713. Through this, I found myself reading a 1664 book, Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber: Volumme 1 by John Evelyn which is alluded to be one of the…
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A gathering of thoughts
I’m still niggling with the idiom “the world is going to hell in a handbasket” and why I felt like I needed to inject my own voice into that phrase — to “make it positive”. What bothers me about it? For one, it is a particular worldview that I suppose is dischordant with mine. I…
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Fire and feathers
Unsurprisingly, on my dubious side-quest to explore the origins of the phrase “going to hell in a handbasket” I’ve been struggling …
The Wild Library: a blog about learning from nature
The Wild Library: ecological learning
borrowing from, learning with, and returning back to nature