Take it to the Trees

20/10/2026

Moments from our time together at , walking and artmaking inspired by this Octobery time of leaf fall. You might even still see traces of the mandala we made outside the assembly rooms.

23/08/2026

If you enjoy this playlist of music and imagery for this time of ripening fruit, I really hope you will come and join me on Substack! You can listen to it by hopping onto the links in my bio and going to my last Substack post. No payment needed. I hope there’s something in there that you love. The music has all kinds of influences. Soon I’ll be posting about the next tree here! Would you like to guess what it is? It is a tree with fruit ripening in England as we speak!

13/07/2026

The familiar image of the ‘Celtic wheel of the year’ (swipe left) became more alive for me after in a conversation with my friend Gary Llewelyn, a practicing druid. He shared that while the solstices and the equinoxes are astrologically fixed, the cross-quarter festivals (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasa and Samhain) are not - you need to look out for them; to meet them as they arrive. Spring comes when the Snowdrops arrive, not because the calendar says it is the first of February. Beltane belongs with the Hawthorne Blossom, which is celebrated in the garlands of the May Queen, and Lughnasa when the Harvest is in, which is down to the Farmers knowing exactly when the crop is ready. Finally Samhain he explained as the Blood harvest: historically the hard decisions that are taken before winter, based on taking inventory after the harvest, and making judgements as to which animals can be fed over winter, and which need to be killed, since there isn’t enough food for them. These festivals have been closely tied to an agricultural way of life, and met in lived relationship with the land.

What matters here is not fixed names or times, but these frames offering us patterns to support our active participation in seasonal reality.

This is an extract from my piece about moon names on Substack. If you’d like to read it please hop over via the links in my bio!!

11/07/2026

My Tree-type series weaves insights about trees and what humans can learn about ourselves in the presence of trees. The latest post is about fig, And the beautiful art of .collages has helped to illustrate it.
See more of her work on my wall and find me on Substack where my publication is ‘The Soul Shed’ or by follow the link here in my bio. And the book by Elif Shafak is brilliant so far!

05/07/2026

This beautiful Collage by .collages is part of my new post about fig trees and enneagram 925 , both of whom I have come to understand as harmonisers in our world. If you would like to read it I hope you will hop onto my Substack in the links in my bio.

02/07/2026

I’ve been walking with fig trees ever since I published the piece on Willow, and talking to inspiring humans! Also collaborating on some illustrations with my friend .collages . Back at the weekend for all of it!

26/06/2026

That glowing time before sunset!
A wonderful time for a walk.
And a good time to breathe deep and let the busy part of the day move through your breathing and your footsteps back into the earth.

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That glowing time before sunset! A wonderful time for a walk. And...

19/06/2026

Soul Shed creative walks are happening over the summer and Autumn! Read the piece on Substack.
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29/05/2026

Having a brilliant and very happy research day up in Lambeth with a 400 year old fig tree. It’s all for a post about fig trees I’ll be writing soon for here and my Substack. 🌳

09/05/2026

Tomorrow is our second fabulous walk as part of Alton's Walking Festival celebrating Oak and Willow in Alice Holt forest. There is one place left. is it yours? Heres the link to learn more. It's Walk 24!

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