Shooting stars, space and the noise of silence.
Language is an amazing thing. The nuances of its structure and vocabulary hint at what’s important in that particular culture. The Eskimos have 50 words for snow. The Japanese, however, have five different words for space…
A Tree Called Brian
On a remote fell-side on the way to the wonderful place where I wild swim with my friends, there’s a solitary tree. A mountain ash. I call him Brian…..
Of Russian Dolls and Armeria Maritima…
I’m not sure exactly where, geographically, the feel of ‘rural’ ends and the different palette of ‘coast’ begins. There must be a hinterland, I guess, where they both overlap. A sort of geographical and sensory Venn diagram where there’s a mix of both…