by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats It’s due to be minus five tonight. The moon’s full pound has reigned over the entrance of winter with all the windows in the valley peeking out their yellow hopes. Christmas is almost here: that festival of creation, mysterious to me in terms of its doctrinal roots, but … Continue reading Walking with Goats: Content Creation
by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats Five ducks hobble slowly down the path that winds between the twin lucerne plantings, the line they form bespeaking their differing phases of experience. Beyond the gate – hung within the fenceline I finished when this year was just beginning – hollow yellow rattle waves amongst the uncut … Continue reading Walking With Goats: The Cuckoo’s Wings
by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats Dear friends, I speak to you across a distance, hoping – as I always do – that my words will reach you closely and in confederacy. We’re separated after all, other than at heart and by the bridge they make. I want to talk to you about this. … Continue reading Walking With Goats: The Gardening of Species
by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats There are two types of people in this world, a man I was working with once told me: hill dwellers and valley dwellers. He placed himself, of course, in the former category. Hill dwellers have little gladness to dwell upon but hard-won pride. We made a festival together … Continue reading Walking With Goats: The Softly Closing Gate
by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats Hello again, dear fellow humans. I do believe it’s spring. I’m lucky to be alive and well and happy for the most part – and more than anything I hope that you can say the same. We live poised in such strange times. I’m excited to report to you … Continue reading Walking With Goats: The Why That Goes In All Directions
Fifth Generation Warfare for the Epistemologically Challenged by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats Welcome to 2023. I’ve mentioned before that I have trouble knowing things. Twenty six years of reprocessing my life through the fictionalisation ferment of my mind has left me with very few steady surfaces. For this reason however – and others, which I … Continue reading Walking With Goats: Sheep Against Satan!
by our regular guest columnist Walking With Goats I wanted to write to you about morality, in the light of what I do. It’s been the right time of year for facing demons. We speak of violence, traditionally, and sex of course, when we invoke the word ‘immoral.’ In animal husbandry, this is the season … Continue reading Walking With Goats: Taking Stock
by Walking With Goats From time to time – perhaps more frequently now – people ask if I have surplus produce to sell, and I never know quite how to answer them. Both parts of the question are stumbling blocks for me: the idea of surplus and the money for which I’d sell. Today, it’s … Continue reading The Value of Living Crisis
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