-Mar 9As Death ArrivesIt takes a particular grace to pass on the first dawn of spring. A gentle bow, a humble farewell, to recede with the dying wave of...
-Aug 3, 2021kintyreon the west coast of Kintyre where blood of our Mother swells with seaweed, our grandmothers' arms stirring cauldrons of ocean and...
-Jul 28, 2021on vaccination, cross pollination, and death practiceIt’s vax time~! Aka, it’s time to address the unavoidable truth of our interconnection and regulate our nervous systems to be okay with...
-May 2, 2021on existential belonging“That’s a nice stick,” I told my neighbour Andrea, on my way to the forest. She was on her way back, wielding a lovely stick cloaked in...
-Mar 15, 2021healing eczema whollyEczema was always my warning signal - it still is. But I had to learn, over many years and a lot of work, to befriend these warnings...
-Mar 3, 2021on hara, flesh of the earthThis 11 March marks the ten year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It was the first day of my exams at Oxford, and two...
-Dec 5, 2020it's winter nowwhat's the world like now asked my father from his bed and my mother there next to him lying still, nearly dead it's winter now, i tell...
-Nov 28, 2020alchemising angerWhat is your relationship with anger? My life has been characterised by it, except that until this year, I didn't realise it was an...
-Aug 16, 2020Politeness as violencePoliteness Not only is an armour for cowardly individuals But an active colonial violence That has caused the collapse of families,...
-Aug 13, 2020meekness as violenceOne atom bomb drops, And another. A nation defined in chaos Wounds that take Aeons to heal Generations of questions Hang In silence, we...
-Jun 9, 2020a rewiringaudio version The privilege of contemplating privilege The privilege of education The oppression of education The privilege of oppression...
-Jun 2, 2020dismantling as individualsTuesday, 2 June 2020 15:54 The words white privilege, antiracism, and white supremacy are being thrown around without a proper inquiry...
-May 31, 2020racism as a result of curiosity suppressedIt is not enough to simply coexist. We must interact, engage, discuss. This will involve clashes and disagreements.
-May 21, 2020ancestral healing, as I understand itWe are individually unique combinations of our ancestors vibrating with an orchestra of frequencies. And yet we are simultaneously ancient.
-Apr 27, 2020symbiosisI spent one autumn on a rice farm in the depths of Kyushu's "hell" valleys where the land heaves with forces from the underworld, hot...
-Apr 17, 2020aquarian equinox, 2020written on 21 March 2020 ~ As dusk falls, the whole world, Navy and still, two short months, and a century ago A mist clung to our...
-Mar 24, 2020311: in memory of past disaster and in celebration of present lifeNine years since the great mythical catfish writhed beneath Japan and engendered a roll of energy which life has been riding ever since....