I was thinking recently that the garden is a microcosm of existence. It demands patience, nurtures growth, and accepts decay as part of the cycle. It teaches me about resilience, about the quiet strength of a tiny seed pushing through hardened earth.
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Creating Your Personal Sanctuary
In difficult times, we all need a refuge, whether physical or mental.
Dreaming and Greening
This week, my focus has been on the burgeoning life in my garden and the subtle greening happening in my community. It’s a community that faces a stark reality: a mere 3% canopy cover. This leaves our terraced streets vulnerable to sweltering heat in the summer, the concrete and lack of shade creating a desert-likeContinue reading “Dreaming and Greening”
Living at the Edges
An hour spent watching the sea is a lesson in accepting change.
Holding Breath
The great joy of this summer has been the garden and my re-engagement with growing.
Summer’s End
Holidays must end as you know.
McCarthy and Moon Autumn Tour
We are pleased to announce our Autumn Tour for 2018 with a series of dates in North East Lincolnshire. Friday 14th September 7.30 pm at The Globe in Cleethorpes. This lovely new coffee and book shop is an intimate venue with very welcoming hosts. Entry is free. Signed copies of Poems from the Swamp willContinue reading “McCarthy and Moon Autumn Tour”
Bridges
I knew in my dream I was walking from one reality to another, one state to another and that I had to say goodbye to everything I thought I knew in order to make that journey. I was not afraid or excited, just peaceful.
The Nature of Fire
It’s no good taking the old into the new when it is no longer fit for purpose. Into the fire go those things that need to be rendered to ash, stripped of their potency, made healthy again for the new life of a spring garden.
Touring, Travelling and All That Jazz
Once I’d re-calibrated myself and found the coffee the world began to resettle and assemble itself in a manageable order. I tuned out the news, it’s all bad, and thought about the past few days, with no small sense of wonder.
Josie Moon 