Land | Food | Nature | People
My wife, a professional coach, has a deck of cards called ‘The Real Deal‘. Based on research conducted with working professionals, they’re designed to provide the framework for a self-guided activity – working out what makes you tick. What are the basic values and priorities that get you out of bed to work? There are eighty …
I voted blackbird in the National Bird poll. The robin won. Feh. https://soundcloud.com/nathannelson/blackbird-singing-in-the-evening I love the blackbird’s song, and the song about the blackbird:
30 Days Wild is a simple idea; get outside and see something, do something with nature every day during June. On the first day, I listened to a robin singing. On the second day, my college class made charcoal and I took a walk in the woods. Civilisation is but a flimsy dust sheet that we …
Over the past couple of months, I’ve deliberately been blind to the mess of pots full of used compost and the scraggy plants demanding a trim as I’ve darted to the end of the garden to put the bins out before scurrying back to the warmth of the house. But things have still been growing …
Every so often, I use noise generators to aid with concentration. A favourite site to find lots of them is MyNoise, which produces the sounds of everything from a Tibetan throat choir to walking by a riverbank, or just white noise. They seem to work best when they’re cancelling out background noise without being obtrusive themselves, …
Report on 2014: First third – Feh. The rest of it – Gardened a lot. Changed a bit. Started college. No resolutions for 2015, just a to-do-or-keep-doing list: Keep up with the career change – keep up with college, get a chainsaw qualification, learn to drive a tractor, get more countryside management experience, find a focus, get a regular …
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