MaryAb

I have been reflecting on the four enquiries I have undertaken in the last decade.  My first enquiry was into the experience of fear –...

I spent this morning at the edge of the Exe Estuary, watching waders with a group led by the naturalist, Matt Collis http://www.devonwildlifetours.co.uk/.  An estuary,...

If there is perception, there is self and other – that which perceives and that which is perceived. In exploring my theme of being on...

This is a place I love to sit – on an ash tree at the edge of Barley Valley woods.  One of its two trunks...

I look up to see the way ash leaves tremble in the slightest breeze.  A wood pigeon lands on a thin branch at the top...

I have experienced the sense of being on the edge, or being between, neither one thing/place nor another, much of my life.  Growing up, I...

There is a tree I go and sit in – an old ash just at the edge of a small area of woodland in the...

I heard the dancer and choreographer, Akram Khan, use the phrase “the pleasure of drowning” in a talk he gave recently.  Like an arrow, it went...

More than one person picked out the phrase “perishable beauty” from my What is Left poem, and I have been musing on the term “perishable”. ...

I am aware I am “lucky” that my experience of the Covid-19 virus was not worse.  I could have ended up in hospital, on a...