Quiet encounters with the living world — the land, sea, and sky that shape our days. Reflections on ecology, wildness, and belonging to place.
Here on Skye, spring feels like a welcome friend – the birds sing again and there’s a lightness in the air that lifts everything with it. The threshold to Spring allows us pause to notice where we are and what we want to grow. What seeds are you planting this year? What are you ready…
There is a moment each year when winter loosens its grip, but spring has not yet fully arrived. A season of thresholds. Of listening. Of quiet beginnings beneath the surface. This new moon, lunar New Year and eclipse arrive in that in-between time – a pause in the turning of the year, where darkness is…
There’s a Japanese word that perfectly captures something I’ve felt countless times here on Skye – Yūgen (幽玄). It describes a deep, felt sense of beauty — the quiet awe that arises when something in nature moves us. It’s that moment when you’re standing on a ridge watching mist roll through, or when light breaks…
This is harvest season—in the natural world and in you. It’s a time to notice what has grown from the seeds we planted. In our practice, our health, our relationships, our hearts.
Autumn letting go practices are mindfulness rituals that mirror nature’s seasonal cycle of release. As trees shed their leaves, these practices help us release outdated habits, ideas, and patterns to create space for renewal.
