Gathering the Roots that Connect Us All

A Gift and An Invitation

Dear creatures

I write to you today from a tired laptop - or perhaps ‘tis me that’s tired, for the pine martens have only just departed on their merry way, today, meandering on to the treehouse after keeping us nocturnal (an in my case, diurnal) for June.

The treehouse, once hospitable, is twenty five years old now and on the verge of collapse, though it still contains a wood burning stove we’d be putting life at stake to retrieve - the mould has eroded the timber, and it has become home to a giant hive of wild honey bees. So the place that once sent me shivers, dark ghosts creaking in the trees has become a refuge for insects and wildlife - and that makes me happy. The ‘martens, I think, shall be well suited to it. Little forest gremlins (in a good way). They remind me of giant, living, breathing ‘sylvanian family’ - those little toys I harboured as a kid, creatures of all kinds. The badgers were always my favourite.

This past week also came with summer’s tippy topmost height and longest, endless day - the solstice. A day of inwardness and indeed expansion. We celebrated beautifully and mystically surrounded by cloud and no sense of neither day nor night but a sort of dusk. We went to the Burren and listened to Latin guitar music whilst the rocks melted into sky and the midges arrived and we left.

I’ve been reading Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles whose creative nonfiction story of inter-connectedness is like reading into a puddle.

But back to the story we all shall tell - a collaborative project. This post is an invitation. The reason for the remainder of this post being private and donation based, is to help fund the project itself, should you, dear creature, wish to share your story and have it be part of a beautiful, printed book! You are welcome to unsubscribe from the paid newsletter at any time, so all it is would be a 2.50 euro donation (when you select ‘gift’ option). This is towards having your work in a book along with other wonderful creatives, and a free copy once it’s in material form. A book to bind us. A book in which to gather in.

So here’s how to be a part of the project: