Healing the Earth with Rewilding
Let the great rewilding of the world begin with you Let yourself be absorbed into something larger and Less tame than your isolated self. (Lorraine Anderson) Recently a heading in…
Gate of the Year: A Poem
I was an adolescent when I first heard the opening lines of “Gate of the Year”, by Minnie Louise Haskins. It was read to me by my dad, with whom…
The Book of Created Nature
The importance of Saint Augustine (354-430) for Western civilisation in general, and Christianity in particular, can hardly be under-estimated. Many women, particularly those committed to empowering women unhappy about their…
The Weary World Rejoices
Here it is again. Advent is suddenly here, and I am once again thrust into the world (and the work) of “waiting in joyful hope.” Waiting, in its many forms…
Love Stronger Than Death
Perhaps it is my age. I will turn eighty in July 2025, and I am becoming increasingly aware of death. Death as a reality that comes for me too. Death…
Collective Memory: Treasuring Our Past
On the last weekend of October, nine RNDMs from Melbourne travelled to the small Victorian country town of Charlton where four RNDMs arrived one hundred years ago to assume responsibility…
The Landscape: Nature and Emotions
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath, writer, in The Bell…
Hopelessness and Hope
I am an avid reader of The Guardian Weekly which arrives in our letter box every Friday and so updates me on what is happening in distant and not so…
The Taste of Things: The Olympics & The Cross
It began when I was seven years old. Glued to the television on Saturday afternoons I would watch ABC’s Wide World of Sports. My excitement mounted as the broadcaster announced…
Love Changes Everything
Know it well, love is its meaning.Who reveals this to you? Love.What does he reveal? Love. Why? For Love.Remain in this and you will know more of the same.--Showings“I love…