Atelier 88 Galicia

Hearing Myself Think

This post follows on from Finding Enchantment. Today is one of those gentler autumn days, seasonally breezy but with just the right amount of bluster. Not so much of a gale that it demands us to hurriedly down tools to retrieve buckets flying round the garden or, inside to hastily fasten angry doors and windows. […]

Finding Enchantment

‘We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts, to live our lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.’ Laura Ingalls Wilder The idea for this post came to me shortly after we moved here in June […]

‘Life Is Like A Cucumber …’

‘Life is like a cucumber. One minute it’s in your hand, the next it’s up your ass’ ( Lawrence Durrell) This quote is one of my favourites. It perfectly describes, albeit crudely, what it feels like when things don’t go to plan or worse. This past year I’ve had plenty of ideas for blog posts […]

Make Do And Mend

It would be all too easy to gloss over the hard, shitty parts and just write about what’s good, but life’s not like that, is it? And if I am to write an honest account about our life here and our projects, I need to address not just the positives, of which there are, i […]

The Hippy, Hippy Shake

God, cow shit smells awful. It’s evening and I’m sat by the stove in the kitchen. Supper has been and gone, candles are lit and cast their glow on the windowsill. I have a mug of Earl Grey tea and Irishman has his PG Tips and after some bickering, the three dogs have finally sorted […]

Wholeness of Nature

Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

Wholeness of Nature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science Paperback – 24 Oct 1996 by Henri Bortoft (Author)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128838.The_Wholeness_of_Nature_

Goethe’s approach to nature is deeply participatory. The observer engages with the phenomena to a point where he confers all of his attention to the phenomenon and the phenomenon ‘reveals’ itself to him. The observer participates in the phenomenon and with his full range of sensory capabilities engages with the qualities of the phenomenon.