The News…...But....Cottascarth Cuckoo...From 'Emergence'...
by Bernie Bell - 10:20 on 12 June 2023
The News...
I’ve decided to stop looking at the News. It’s all the same, and all grim. Natural and un-natural disasters. Politics of corruption, corruption, corruption.
I’ll check the BBC News website on Friday afternoon to see the ’Pics of Scotland’ - otherwise – life is getting too much for me and I need a survival strategy.
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But…
I’m happy to look at this kind of news….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/06/12/2023-dig-season/
Yay! The aerial views of The Cairns and surrounding area are ace!
My tuppenceworth re. The Cairns... https://frontiersmagazine.org/the-cairns-comes-to-stromness-museum/
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Cottascarth Cuckoo….
We went for a short walk at Cottascarth, where we heard a cuckoo – calling repeatedly – first one I’ve heard for years.
It’s another good year for Heath-spotted orchids and Bog-cotton…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/06/21/orchids-at-cottascarth/
We stood under the big, old sycamore - each with one hand on the tree – connected – received tree-healing.
Looked up through the fresh young leaves and clusters of flower-heads - to the sky.
Then talked, standing under the tree.
This morning, when the Fear started to come into my mind, I ‘went back there’ – saw it, felt it. There was no room for anything else.
We then went into the hide and met a couple who were watching a Merlin on its nest on the hill opposite.
Cottascarth, on that day, was a place of peace and stillness. Just what we needed – again…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/06/23/the-sycamore-at-cottascarth/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
“Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet
by David Abram
with artwork by Katie Holten
“What is this dynamic alliance between an animal and the animate orb that gives it breath? What seasonal tensions and relaxations in the atmosphere, what subtle torsions in the geosphere, help to draw half a million cranes so precisely across the continent?”
As summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere, many of the world’s migrating species are finding their way to warm-weather breeding grounds. Arctic tern are winging north to breed in the Arctic, on the first stretch of their annual 50,000-mile journey. Great masses of wildebeest are fording crocodile-infested rivers northward along the Serengeti’s Western Corridor. Thousands of leopard sharks are beginning to gather in the warm, shallow waters off the coast of La Jolla in California to incubate their young and feed among kelp forests and rocky reefs. What is the elusive wisdom that enables these incredible patterns of migration? Scientists have hypothesized the presence of tiny magnetic compasses in animals’ brains, photosensitive glands that act as internal clocks. But what if the answers aren’t locked inside a secret mechanism internal to an animal’s brain and body? What if we understood migration as emerging from a conversation—a spontaneous reciprocity—between migrating creatures and the environments they migrate within?
In this week’s essay, cultural ecologist and geo-philosopher David Abram conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, marvelling at the reciprocal interactions that guide these creatures across the wider body of the Earth. Accompanying this story is artist Katie Holten’s series Wandering Within: delicate studies inspired by the minute internal migrations of the cells in our own bodies. How might we humans, whose senses have coevolved with the enfolding biosphere, whose bodies hold their own inner patterns of migration, begin to recognize ourselves, too, as expressions of the animate, breathing Earth?
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/21/to-build-a-broch/
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