@curioushermit.bsky.social
Things that capture my curiosity: Pagan scholarship, women’s life writing/ life storytelling, arts-based research, folklore, trauma studies and holistic healing, photography, cheese, and wandering.
Four more fabulous Dear Mr. Smallwood contributors, all inspired, moved, and affected by the letters they read: @hcoombs.bsky.social @curioushermit.bsky.social Andreae Callanan & Gemma Hickey!
One week out from our book launch!
Wed. 26 November at 7 pm
The Great Hall, Queen's College
free parking
After a (very) long and (very) winding road, Dear Mr. Smallwood is almost here! I can't wait to finally meet this book in print in a few weeks.
I can definitely relate to this!
What a beautiful and poetic way to describe folklore! 💕
Wandering around books researching some of my favourite things. #folklore #witches #research #charms #paganscholar
It’s been wonderful to follow along on this journey with you! Thank you for sharing the bits and pieces and things that weave together.
Packing books this week feels a bit like wandering around on a journey. Picking up some books feels like meeting an old friend, the kind of friend you say “let’s get coffee someday, I’d love to catch up” and you mean it.
Oh this looks interesting.
Perfect for daydreaming!
Beautiful!
It was an honour to present at the Virtual Symposium of Pagan Thought and Practice. Every presenter offered thought provoking questions and strategies for surviving perilous times. I asked the question: how do we care for each other in community.
#pagan #paganscholar #witch #witchcraft
Good point. Any photo can be a good prompts. I can see how it would be hard for your friend to separate the two art forms, it often is inseparable for me too.
Although not what you were going for, I like the that the starling is out of focus. It adds a touch of mystery. Or maybe it’s the kind of photo that could be a writing prompt.
GOOD MORNING
Finding Pagans and Witches Outside of Social Media
#witchsky
youtu.be/FVyXIIJ816k
Great advice, Thorn. Thanks for sharing. Community is a topic that keeps coming up lately, I think many people are feeling the need for greater connection outside of social media but don’t necessarily know where to find it.
Perhaps belonging is alchemy. An ongoing speculation of self. A magical process of creation of one’s true self.
This reflection is from a presentation I gave at the @labrc.bsky.social Alchemy Conf. last year. Thinking about layers, reimagining words, reimagining worlds.
#artsbasedresearch
What a fascinating map! Thanks so much for sharing.
Always. That’s what tells the story or allows you to imagine one.
Love the mood!
A lone(ly) duck
head buried
refusal to be seen (?)!
Post-it note poetry
working toward untangling my wall of post-it notes in search of questions with no answers.
Imagining fog through found poetry.
“Spectral encounters
intimacy
within we become
lost.”
Thinking about my getting lost in the woods of Newfoundland. Inspired by @oceanleaving.bsky.social “Weather: Fog Trouble” in Autoethnography & Theory at the Water’s Edge.
A book I return from over & over.
Was so good to catch up with my mentor @storiedselves.bsky.social today to talk about writing projects. I’m envisioning myself wandering in the fog more than 100 years ago, as my gg- aunt did when she was lost in the woods of Newfoundland. Inspired and ready to get writing.
Not until I saw this post but I just ordered it.