‘The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.’
Anais Nin
‘Courting the Wild Twin’ by Martin Shaw
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020) What’s so utterly compelling for me about this book is that it grapples with the deliciously sticky, dark mud of being human. By now, most [...]
Story Weavers’ Vision Quest 2020
Storyweavers' Rap by Deborah Oberon StoryWeaversVisionQuest2020: We weave you in line by line by line We tell you sweet juicy stories Time after time after time….. Haux! Haux! LissenUp! LissenUp! We GrandmotherSpider and Her CouncilONine And [...]
OF STAR MAIDENS AND WINGED WHALES
We sit down at the table carrying our bowls of beef curry and rice with cucumber and yoghurt. As the boys hoe into their food, I (fresh from a weekend of chi kung and an acupuncture session with Roy [...]
THE RETURN OF THE MERPEOPLE
I dream we go to a lake hoping to see dolphins and whales – or perhaps it is an inlet from the sea. As we enter the water, we see a dolphin and a whale. I am there with [...]
THE UNRAVELLING JOURNEY
I used to be a person who was afraid to speak my truth. I used to feel as though words were all tangled up inside me, like old ropes washed up by the sea on the coarse sand of [...]
SUPERWOMAN & THE FAIRYTALE BOOK
I had this dream pre-2009, and it now seems very significant, since 10 years later, in 2019, I’ve realized that I was born to be a storyteller and my vision now is to help revitalize the oral storytelling tradition. [...]