Seeds for Thought: an Ecopsychology Blog

eve of may and one party newspapers

best Beltane wishes to everyone. I was going to write a blog reviewing 1st 4 months of retirement, but am distracted. There seems to be trouble around, personally, as well as in the world of course. I'll talk about a tiny one.

My neighbour came round with a problem with the little stream that runs through our gardens. I checked and it was running fine through ours, high after yesterdays thunderstorm. In her garden downstream it was still and had been seeping out. I put on my wellies and tried poking into the culvert at the end, could not reach any blockage and the next people down are away. So not much I could do.

And it seemed a bit like a tarot reading. blocked energies, numbness, feelings leaking out into the wrong places. and strong people picking up the pieces, getting out their plungers and doing their best  while trying to keep distance from the bits we can't reach or help or solve.

mayday, new life, labour, help me

and if in the UK please go and vote tomorrow particularly in London, a curse on the tory fool and the monopolistic daily paper that is his campaign mouthpiece. The only local paper here "forgot" to mention the Green candidate. Funny no one worries about them while accusing the BBC of bias.

workers, mothers, lovers go and vote in your shared interests. we are in this thing together

i want to have a baby

I wanted six children to match the six favourite names I had chosen: three girls and three boys. I imagined them as adults with interesting personalities and careers.

Then...

I wanted a daughter named Helen and I always used to imagine walking with her, hand in hand, down Solano Ave. on my way into uni.

Then...

Cultural richness in linguistic diversity

Several months ago, a Montrealer called David Millar contacted me through this blog and invited me to comment on various documents and ideas -- some written by him, others from other sources.  I didn't have much time to offer him as I was working but I was fascinated with what he was doing and I did try to be helpful once or twice.

Now that I am heavily and deeply wintering (15 cm of snow yesterday, April 2, 2008, to add to the mountains of snow in Rivière-au-Tonnerre, 51 degrees latitude, with more snow forecast for the weekend) and that I am expecting to be in this state until July, I have more time to check out interesting "stuff" and I want to introduce you to David Millar's blog.  What made it interesting when I first read it was the depth of its content; what makes it utterly fascinating now is the fact that it features entries in English, French and Spanish!