Back in Edinburgh, mid-July, I was filling time on a warm Sunday morning by walking to George Square and round the Meadows. First, fed-upness as it is that time of year before the Edinburgh Festival in August, and the preparation for the festival is taking over many of the favourite places. Like my lovely Block … More Time filling, time flying
On this beautiful island, I am revisiting past activities. Yesterday I walked Finlay, the once energetic now rather more sedate family dog, to the “pebbly” beach, past the roses and the beach plum roses to the beach where I found the rocks a lot harder to walk on than in previous visits. I have only … More Dog Walk and Bird Walk
I am on Block Island, where I lived until 2019, when I moved back to Scotland to live more permanently in Edinburgh. I put the date, because I never thought it would be three years until I returned, even though I would come as a guest of US son and family, no longer in my … More Block Island Holiday
It is over a month since I posted – too much happening. I am happy to say that now it is possible to have guests, I have been having them! This post is written specially for one of them – she knows who she is – as on my birthday [yes one of those has … More Swans at Blackford Pond
Yesterday, Sunday, a friend suggested a walk. Where to go? I remembered Cramond Isle, last visited in a Spring three years ago, and looked up the tide tables. For those who do not know, Cramond Isle lies in the Firth of Forth just off Cramond Village on the outskirts of Edinburgh, and there is a … More Cramond Isle
A mild day at the end of another year, though it rained this morning. Lots to read – but thought I would be better out walking while the light lasts and the rain has gone. I crossed to St Leonards and walked down the steps from there, not too mucky. It was Friday, and there … More Year End
Walking on Christmas morning, Edinburgh people will know where I was – at the duckpond by Holyrood [St Margaret’s Loch]. It just happened that the sun was catching the city as I walked home. I have had a couple more walks since, caught the moon in the blue sky, and then this morning was entranced … More Walks, Presencing
Soon it will be solstice and the days will begin to lengthen. I quite like getting up in the dark, but then as afternoon falls away quickly I think of longer light. I am reading McGilchrist: The Matter With Things” very slowly and have reached Part II. In between picking this weighty tome up, I … More December Presence
I recently went back to worrying about the monetary system and why we have such a disastrous construct. Money is not physics, nor a virus, people/society made it the way it is. Worse, so many people who should know better, are caught in money myths. I watched some of the Positive Money short videos, everyone … More Want to be wild
Having spent most of the day at the Climate Psychology Alliance community day, online with more than 20 others trying to explore the intertwining of colonisation, racism and climate, or rather how to be vulnerable to the discomforts of being anti colonisation, racism etc. I felt it was time for a walk out. Now that … More September Evening Walk
My World, Your World, One World 