Ask not what trees can do for us, but what we can do for trees

August 14, 2022Books, Climate Change, Creativity, Fiction, Places, Poetry, Recycling, Trees, Walking

Last weekend I walked through a wood. Sunlight filtered through the  leaves and made me think how medieval stonemasons must have been inspired by the branches of trees gathered in arching vaults above them when they imagined their cathedrals. In a modern reversal, in Italy, near Bergamo, there’s a tree cathedral: And, at the entrance … Read More

Creativity and Patience; and walks with Mental Health Mates

September 14, 2018Artists, Creativity, Mental Health, Poetry, Things I'd Love to Have Made, Walking, Writers, Writing

Being an artist means … ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms … summer [will] come. But it comes only to the patient … patience is everything! from Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice to Franz Xaver Kappus from Letters to a  Young Poet. Quotation found here. Patience. Now there’s a thing to … Read More