From ‘Emergence’ Magazine… Being Creative With Leaves….NOB Newsletter….
by Bernie Bell - 09:38 on 14 November 2023
From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…
by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
“The world outside became more unsettled, unsettling, by the day. The only thing that soothed me was the wind working through the trees.”
“The crises changing our world are changing motherhood, too. Gray whales, who gestate their calves for almost a year and swim alongside them for another eight months, are having to adapt to changes in the food chain as sea ice diminishes in the Arctic. With spring arriving earlier each year, songbirds in North America are having trouble shifting their breeding timelines, making it harder for them to match the emergence of their hatchlings to the availability of food and warmth. In China, the disappearance of old-growth forests means fewer old tree caves for giant pandas to den and nurse their cubs in. Across the Earth, human and more-than-human mothers alike are feeling the shifts in our collective home and, in their midst, continuing to create a sense of care and refuge for their young.
In this week’s essay, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s experiences of pregnancy and motherhood bring her into an emerging realization of her own mammalhood. When she encounters her animal self, a creature embedded in the wild tangle of wind and trees and flowers that surround her, it transforms everything: her sense of home and safety; what it means to feel, to act, to care through the ancient, feral knowledge of instinct. Listening for teachings from the Earth, Kerri feels her way through the anguish and tenderness of raising a child in a burning and breaking—and beautiful—world.”
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Being Creative With Leaves….
At this time of year many people are raking up the fallen Autumn leaves. Nikola Faller who lives in the city of Osijek in the north of Croatia goes a step further as he forms shapes from leaves in the local parks…….
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=882413759907385&set=pcb.882413949907366&locale=en_GB
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NOB Newsletter….
https://go.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/nl3/DIUSyoKA-ix5EXN8qV_C_A?hl=en
Reading Nick’s last sentence re. Structure 27 I thought, again - what we need is someone who could explain The Ness!!!...
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/12/01/someone-who-could-explain-the-ness-of-brodgar/
My musings on that place…. https://theorkneynews.scot/?s=Trench+T+Bernie+Bell
More recently…. http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16030
And on other items in the Newsletter…
Conversations with Magic Stones…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/09/circles-lines-tales-to-tell-and-roads-to-travel/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/24/conversations-with-magic-stones/
The wonder that is Michael Sinclair’s wood-turning….….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/01/07/timelines-of-an-orkney-wood-turner/
When we visited the Ness dig in July, we went to the shop where we bought some cards by Sam Gray of the Banded Gneiss Mace-head - which went straight up on the wall in my den when we got home...
https://www.samanthagrayart.com/
I likes the Banded Gneiss Mace-head…
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16063
A reminder that the exhibition of artefacts from the Ness of Brodgar at Tankerness House Museum runs until the 23rd of December…
https://frontiersmagazine.org/the-ness-in-the-museum/
Pressies from the shop?
And, finally...
For Tam
Tam Tam Tam-The-Dog
Guardian of The Ness
For all we know
He might know
Of things we cannot guess!
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Here’s one I made earlier….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/22/contradictions-part-six/
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