From Caithness Broch Project…. From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……..
by Bernie Bell - 09:51 on 22 October 2025
From Caithness Broch Project….
“A MOMENTOUS DAY FOR CBP!
We are over the moon to announce that have won planning approval to construct our replica broch. This is truly fantastic news:
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/.../scotland-s.../
This has been a long journey - beginning well over two years ago - and is the result of a lot of hard work from the team. We trudged across the hillside measuring peat depths; we carried out extensive community consultations; we obtained funding for all the relevant road and access issues.
None worked as hard to push this over the finish line as our very own Dawn Maclean, though, so we must offer huge thanks for the mountain of work she put in. What an achievement!
This is an important project not only for the Caithness, but for the Highlands, and Scotland too. There's still a long way to go, and we hope that you'll join us on our journey. Why not join as a member today on the link below?
https://www.thebrochproject.co.uk/.../bec.../become-a-member
Or join for FREE as a 'Friend':
https://www.thebrochproject.co.uk/.../bec.../become-a-friend
Donate to the project:
https://www.paypal.com/donate...
Thank you to everyone who has helped us get to this stage so far!”
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A few of my ramblings about the Caithness Broch Project….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/21/to-build-a-broch/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/09/20/the-mystery-of-the-ousdale-broch-mannie/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine……..
Directed by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts, featuring J. Drew Lanham
“To let that cacophony wash over you, you almost have to divorce your mind from identifying anything. You just let everything that is, be what it is.”
This week, we bring you a film that spans the three themes we are exploring in print. It offers a taste of the larger frame that holds together our new issue, and the paradoxical ways we are entwined with the seasons through requiem, invitation, and celebration, each a thread we will unfurl in the coming months.
Directed by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts, A Mystical Ornithology immerses you in the songs of migrating blue jays, yellow-throated warblers, and red-shouldered hawks that stop over in rural South Carolina, at the forty-six-acre farm of acclaimed poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Imbuing each season with original, living notes, these creatures are, for Drew, transcendent beings whose presence evokes a response of reverence. He whistles prayers into the wind and writes praise into his poetry in the hope that the birds who grow increasingly absent each year will recognize this place as a haven. Reverberating with sound, music, light, and ethereal cinematic expression, this film weaves a kinetic texture for the senses and reveals how we might be present with the entanglement of love and grief within the changing nature of the seasons. “
https://emergencemagazine.org/film/a-mystical-ornithology/
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