Everything is waiting for you
One year ago today, I sunk the first poles of my shelter, this place I would call home for six months. No power tools, no nails. Just black wattle, string, and blady grass – and a hand saw, mattock and hatchet. The project felt impossible, and in a sense, it was. I never finished it.…
Animate forces I invoke before posting
I am still quite new to the perilous land of Instagram and I was recently inspired by Josh Schrei of the The Emerald Podcast, whose episode ‘Guardians and Protectors’ suggests a prayer of protection that might be used before opening social media. Reflecting on this, a jumble of other invocations poured forth. The Muse:Have I…
Reflections on life without a smartphone
This year I finally made it happen – the long awaited dream of going bush for up to a year, and letting the dirt, rain and silence soak into my skin.
One of my many intentions for the year, along with building my own shelter and practising skills like fire-by-friction, was to go entirely without…
The two approaches to Vision Quest
It was almost 7 years ago that I signed up for my first Quest. The idea both terrified and allured me, and I was at least in part allured by the terror itself. Wanting to experience something so foreign, so new, so unlike anything I’d done before that it would burst me open and put…
Seven months alone in the wilderness
I keep trying to write this post and get about this far.
How to write about something when I don’t know what I’m trying to say? How to tell a story if I don’t know what it is yet?
There are so many stories I could tell you, like of the one-eyed robin who kept…
Nerdy moon post
I’m often surprised by how many people don’t know some basic sun and moon facts.
But then I think, well I didn’t use to either.
It wasn’t until I was 25 that I learnt that the full moon always rises at dusk and sets at dawn, the new moon rises at dawn and sets at…
Sit Spot FAQ
Of course there are no hard and fast rules, and any time in nature is better than none, but I’ve put together this FAQ to help the would-be sit spotter get started.