Listen, Learn and Speak the Scots Gaelic (Gàidhlig) and Scots Leid (language)
When I was wee, we were often told to 'speak properly' and that meant that 'aye' became 'yes' and 'naw' became 'no.' We were led to believe that the words we used in the playground were improper. At primary school in the 1970's, the only time we were allowed to speak...
5 Days of Mandala Magic is Back : Answering Common Questions
It’s back! The 5 Days of Mandala Magic has returned with brand new content. This free online workshop explores art journaling with circles, cycles and symbols. This year we begin on Wednesday 20th November. It’s online, available world-wide - and you’re invited!...
Heart Medicine from Autumn Equinox to Samhuinn (Samhain)
The wheel of the year revolves through another cycle - from Autumn Equinox to Samhuinn (Samhain.) Please enjoy this celebration of relationship, a love affair with all that is, despite all that is! Another visual poem on film from my home in Scotland. Features a visit...
ASHES to ASHES : a guided art ritual at Samhuinn (Samhain)
Here in Scotland there is no doubt that this cross-quarter day in the 8-fold year has been marked since time out of mind. In the Scots Gaelic it is Samhuinn, a festival later Christianised as All Hallow's Eve, transported over the ocean to the Americas and brought...
Celebrating the Hairst : a visual poem for the autumn equinox
Autumn is the most poetic of seasons, wouldn't you agree? As we prepare to greet this latest juncture in our eight-fold year - the Autumn Equinox on Monday 23rd Sept - I was inspired to create a video poem in tribute. No great, sweeping epic - rather a modest visual...
Circles + Symbols : Organic Clothing + Accessories
At Lughnasadh I launched Circles and Symbols : an organic clothing + accessories line. Art. Merchandise. Fashion. Pretty controversial topics, especially when you combine them ... So many thoughts I could share. So many points upon which to disagree with...
Merry Making at Lughnasadh, the Lammas Fairs + Personal Mythology
Oh, yes - can you feel it? A perceptible sigh ... a letting down of energies ... a downwards shift ... a ripening ... Here in Scotland, it's Lughnasadh, or Lammas - the first of the harvest festivals and another gateway in our eight-fold year. Marking the...
Live Mandala Event : The Shape of Our Beliefs : Ancestral Bodies
This month's Patreon ceilidh is a live, online mandala-making circle, available to members of Clans Adder, Deer + Beastie. Not a member? No problem - there's still time to join us, if you wish. The space I'm creating at Patreon is designed to spark...
Launching The Woven Land Network with a Midsummer Party
A Midsummer party you say? Foraging and medicinal herbs, creative conversations and a ceilidh to round it all off - all hosted at The Ecology Centre in Fife. It was a no-brainer for me to attend the launch event of The Woven Land Network, especially...
We are being called to pay attention : Summer Solstice ☀️
“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream” ~ Midsummer Night's Dream, William ShakespeareLooking to the folklore, I find that the Summer Solstice celebrations here in Scotland were centred on Midsummer Eve and the morning...
A Slogan For Our Times
“We have an idea where the monsters are. So that’s where we're headed. Friends are forged on the dark road headed out of town.” And so it was that the day dawned and on offer was something we all had a feeling about, but weren’t quite sure exactly what was to occur....
Salt Circle of Tears
An invitation to a creative tending of our personal and cultural grief. Exclusive to members of Patreon Clans Adder, Deer + Beastie. June 2nd 2019 : 6pm BST (timezones here) An online event, hosted on Zoom. (Recordings for Patreon Clans Deer + Beastie.)"Grief is not a...