Mary Oliver is one of my favourite poets. Her work is simple, in the best sense of that word. It's all about the natural world too, which of course suits me. In her poem "The Summer Day", she ends with this question:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Seventy plus years into mine, it's a question I'm asking again. I'm feeling happy with a few answers, still developing a few more. One firmed-up answer is to do some 'serious' blogging, and having managed to lose my former website (combination of lack of funds, my IT dysfunction and pandemic inertia), I'm back here again on Google's lovely Blogger: free, and easy to manipulate. I can even post my own photos, with just a couple of mouse clicks, and none of that tedious down and up and up and down loading I seemed to have to do before. Here's my updated 'about me' page, if you want to check me out.
So, celebrating this first post with some recent, random photographs. Or perhaps not so random...
Nemetona is the name I've chosen for this blog because it's the name of the ancient Celtic goddess of sacred, protected or ritual spaces. And as well as the Nemetona Project which you can read about here, and photographs of aspects of nemeta,
there'll be posts about sacred inner space too. Outdoor nemeta exist in consensus reality (personal experiences within them notwithstanding); but nemeta can - and do - exist in idiosyncratic so-called 'alternative' realities. As I journey through this particular cloud nemeton, I hope there'll be plenty of joy to be had.
