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Embracing the Element of Air: A Druid’s Perspective
In my previous post I examined my relationship with the element of Earth and how I use the sensual nature of my body to engage fully with the Web of Life. In this short essay I will offer my thoughts on the nature of AIR This is the most elusive of the four elements. We…
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Nature’s Elements: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Following on from my last post one reader raised a point that gave me the idea to explore the elements in a more detailed way. I wrote of sensuality in my life and how I use the sensual nature of my body to reinforce my connection with myself and the web of life. EARTH The…
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Sensuality
Unlike the other three elements air is the one we cannot see but it is the most intimate and essential of the four. If my brain is deprived of oxygen for two minutes it begins to die. Each breath that I take is a gift from the air, it penetrates deep into my body and…
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Do you see me?
It’s just near the winter solstice and the earth is cold, it’s been an incredibly wet autumn and early winter and even though the land slopes towards the river there is a slick of water running through the grass. My bare heel touches the soil and due to the muddy nature of everything it sinks…
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Ancestors
When people know that I am a Druid what comes to mind is an old man with white hair and a beard in robes with a cloak and a staff. I do visually fit that archetype But also they tend to equate Druids with stone circles. This picture by Stephen Barnes was based on me…
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Love
Half a lifetime ago I was on a 15 day Buddhist retreat and during that retreat I had a deep personal insight into my own being. Without going into the detail I realised that at my core and the core of every other being is what I can only describe as a seed or kernel…
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Never too old!
I’m just past my 75th time around the sun, where has all this time gone? It’s not unusual to think that it’s all over and there is nothing to contribute so late in life but that is not my way. “I like being old” How often do you hear that said? our society seems to…
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The Web of Life
I have a little off grid hut at the top of my property, it’s perched high above the burn that forms my eastern boundary and I regularly spend time there with an overnight stay once every week or so. It’s like a mini retreat that I give myself. I just sit quietly, open to whatever…
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The five string harp
If you are regular reader of this blog you. will know it has been my morning ritual for the last seven years to bathe in the wild highland burn that runs down from the hills and forms part of my property. At about 7am, throughout the year, I step naked and barefooted onto the grass,…
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Just Pay Attention!
“Yesterday is a memory, Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the Knowing” These are the words of Ajahn Sumedho the abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Center that he gave during a talk. What he meant by this is that our memories are often full of regret and criticism and our projection of the future can be full…
Muddy Feet
Meeting nature on nature's terms
A blog about my life as a Druid living in the Oak woods of Ardnamurchan
Muddy Feet 