Peter Reason

In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling

My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...

New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin

Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!

Bird School: A beginner in the wood by Adam Nicolson Review by Peter Reason ‘The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead. A raven.’ From this grab-your-attention first line and the evocative description of this encounter, I am ho

Shiny Tuesday: @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Bird School by Adam Nicolson. 'Throughout, the writing is gorgeous – elegant yet unfussy, richly descriptive without over-doing it, ' shinynewbooks.co.uk/bird-school-...

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane Review by Peter Reason It is very unlikely that many readers of Shiny New Books have missed Robert Macfarlane’s new book. It has been reviewed in most of the major periodicals; chosen as ‘

.@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social My review of Is a River Alive is at shinynewbooks.co.uk/is-a-river-a... @shinynewbooks.bsky.social

🌊 Living Waters | 11th March - 29th April - An 8-week online course, exploring the panpsychic view that everything in the world, including rivers and the Earth, is interconnected with mind and matter deeply intertwined.

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Wedgwood Soup Bowl c 1880 At Turret Lodge, my grandmother’s house on Wandsworth Common, London, the front door was at the top of three wide steps.

'When Nanna died about ten years after the war and the house was cleared, Ann took possession of the dinner service. “Why would you want that, dear?”'
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Cake tester “Come and help me see that the cake is done,” Elizabeth calls from the kitchen.

A knitting needle stuck in a champagne cork serves as a cake tester. How long has this been in the family? objectsandlives.substack.com/p/cake-tester

Oak and water Three of us – David, Dave, and myself – are tentatively moving our inquiry from a focus on River to a focus on the places where we live, our Dwelling Places.

The experience at the heart of enchantment is sheer existential wonder, and it comes… “as a gift or not at all.” New post on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com/p/oak-and-wa...

Living Waters A panpsychic view starts from the understanding that all things, including the Earth itself, are integral to the fabric of the living cosmos, all of the same sentient cloth. Mind is a fundamental aspe...

Delighted to announce Living Waters 2025, a co-operative inquiry into sentient and communicative waterways drawing on living cosmos panpsychism. For more information and registration hawkwood-website.vercel.app/our-programm...

Glass Salt Cellars These glass salt cellars were gift from Gracie for my 21st birthday.

This is the story of Gracie, who come to work for my grandmother in her early teens and stayed with the family for the rest of her life. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/glass-salt...

What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives

Fantastic. Well done. Properly published. Persistence +quality pays off.

What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.

... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.

'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'

Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?

Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.

Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives

The pages are splattered with brown cooking stains that match the illustration of chutney being spooned out of a preserving pan. Other pages... are similarly distressed, but rather less so. All the rest are untouched, almost pristine.

Stephan Harding obituary Other lives: Ecologist and teacher at Schumacher College, who worked with James Lovelock on Gaia theor

My tribute to our dear friend, colleague, teacher, Stephan Harding, who taught us to love Gaia as a living being and to integrate science with soul is published the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’

Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin

The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt Review by Peter Reason Ghost Lake is a paleolithic, extinct lake that lies between the Yorkshire Wolds and Scarborough. In prehistoric times it was a real lake, the centre of a flourishing Mesolith…

I much enjoyed The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt.' All landscapes are personal. The landscape you live in is not just an archive of past lives, past geological and natural events, but an archive of your own story.'
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