A decade ago, I started the festival of Borrowed. It’s on February 28th or 29th (depending on which is available), and is a reminder that the Earth is precious and ecosystems are fragile. It seems even more relevant in the face of the climate emergency.
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Mirror
I wrote this poem and the note below it on 1 March 2003, in response to the Iraq War. Sometimes those of us opposed to that war were accused of having forgotten the dead of 9/11. Just like now when those of us opposed to the bombing of Gaza are accused of indifference to the dead of October 7th.
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How do we celebrate the balance of night and day when everything is out of balance, off-kilter, disturbed?
The answer is that we celebrate anyway, to bring about the balance in ourselves.
We grieve for floods, fires, species loss, climate change, habitat destruction, and we celebrate the beauty of nature to remind ourselves that life is worth living, habitats must be saved, the balance must be restored.
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the fire within 🔥 a poetry zine by Yvonne Aburrow
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Borrowed, 2023
Some years ago, I started the festival of Borrowed. It’s on February 28th or 29th, and is a reminder that the Earth is precious and ecosystems are fragile. It seems even more relevant in the face of the climate emergency.
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Nature notes, Sunday 26 February, -7°C.
Walked by Hespeler Millpond. The fresh layer of snow was not slippery. We saw four or five swans. There were some rabbit tracks across the snow that’s laid on the frozen surface of the millpond. There’s also a fallen tree that was felled by a beaver. The sky was blue, crisp, and clear.
Vintage nature notes 2015
Small beauties from Oxford in 2015.
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Nature notes, 20 February 2023. 3°C. Sunny with a few clouds. Damp.
Went for a walk in Dumfries Conservation Area. Saw a few ferns, some birch trees, various conifers, a grey squirrel, and lots of chickadees at a feeder by the parking lot. Also this lovely moss. Now that the snow is almost all gone, the forest floor, and stumps and rocks with moss on them, are once again visible.
Continue readingVintage nature notes 2013
In 2013, I wrote a series of short posts about nature, reflecting on the small beauties that I noticed each day. The idea of posting about small beauties came from Jacqueline Honeybee Durban.
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Dowsing for Divinity 