I Ching Writing 
Technology, Nature, Elon Musk
9 November 2023 by James 


  What we may well believe has the power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world...


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Tales from the Rhinogs
28 September 2023 by James 


  The same leap of the spirit carries me up. God or no god, I am fey again – Nan Shepherd...


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The Queen Arrives
25 June 2023 by James 


  What we may well believe has the power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world...


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Meadows and Fields
10 June 2023 by James 


I’m thinking of meadows after reading about them. These are the best, they say in The Times, for good...


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Cold Winter Chat
24 March 2023 by James 


  There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials –...


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Wind Shirts and Hills
27 February 2023 by James 


In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social...


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Bird Song Walking
16 February 2023 by James 


But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it – Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong...


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Sheila’s Lemonade
8 January 2023 by James 


Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! – William Shakespeare I watched the Detectorists for the first...


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Chat and the Mountains
11 December 2022 by James 


The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories ― Carl Jung Landscape...


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Winter Aesthetic
4 December 2022 by James 


There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials – Moya Cannon,...


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I Ching Writing 
The Land and the Street
15 November 2022 by James 


In the mountains, there you feel free – T.S. Eliot Some years ago I met two ladies in a Lake...


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Walking Kinder Scout
21 October 2022 by James 


  It can stay silent a lifetime. Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves...


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Slipping Out of Time
7 July 2022 by James 


  But now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips...


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The Robin and the Woods
22 May 2022 by James 


  There’s an idea about nature we might call encounter. We encounter it, without complete understanding....


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