Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...

Living Waters 2026, a panpsychic co-operative inquiry exploring River as living presence. If we invoke their living presence, address them as subjects and as persons, what manner of response might we receive? www.schumachercollege.org/living-waters

Love, Anger and Betrayal is one of the most hard-hitting books on the science and politics of climate change I have read. Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...

Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...

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!

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-...

[email protected] 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. hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

'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?”' open.substack.com/pub/objectsa...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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.' shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-ghost-la...

New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s

Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.

New post on Objects&Lives: Table and Chairs, and what my Uncle taught me

Cabinets of Curiosity, or The Wunderkabinett, new posting on Objects&Lives with poet Sue Boyle

New post on Learning How Land Speaks. Australian Indigenous Elders explain that ‘when you take care of Country, Country will take care of you’. They teach us the words from Indigenous languages, rinyi, pirlirr and liyan, which teach us to listen deeply to the spirit of Country.

River as Teacher. Second conversation between me and Andreas Weber @biopoetics. 'The point of life is to beget life, and this whole reality is alive'

The Inner Work: a conversation with Andreas Weber. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks

Do the dishes and teacups from your childhood evoke vivid memories of joy and sadness? New post on Objects&Lives

Startled by Kingfisher. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks. As Tioikasin Ghosthorse tells us 'No matter what language you speak, a hidden, nurturing world is already at work with you'.

Objects are not to be dismissed as mere matter, for things in themselves makes links with the human psyche; they connect us, directly and viscerally, to memories of people, places, and events. New post on Objects&Lives: Oak Chest

'The ocean reveals that the roots of the crisis we inhabit lie deep in the patterns of violent exploitation and extraction that have shaped the modern world' says James Bradley in Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. My review @cityoftongues @ScribeBooks shinynewbooks.co.uk/deep-water-t...

Today at Shiny @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, new in Vintage paperback. shinynewbooks.co.uk/thunderclap-...

New substack posting on Object&Lives from guest poet Ama Bolton: Pocket Handkerchief. Objects&Lives features short writing & imagery reflecting on household and personal objects that hold value through the memories they hold and their associations with family & cultural history.

New post on Learning How Land Speaks by guest writer Freya Mathews, panpsychic philosopher. ' the ‘language’ that the cosmos will speak in response to our invocations can only be… the language of poetics, of imagery, of meaning conveyed through the symbolic resonance of things'.

New Posting on Learning How Land Speaks: The Deep Time Walk with ecologist Stephan Harding

'A night of terrible beauty' My story of #SingingWithNightingales with @samleesong in Highnam Woods #GlosBirds peterreason.substack.com/p/singing-wi...

Further reflections on Funeral for Nature in Bath. The place of Ceremony peterreason.substack.com/p/reflection... #CodeRedForNature; #RebelForTruth; #RebelForLife