So something about me…I love my work (which doesn't feel like work to me at all), my gorgeous dog and her lovely silky ears, spending time in the woods, the sun on my skin - especially after a long winter, cherries, swimming in the ocean, watching films in the fancy seats at the cinema, walking in bad weather (with the right clothes), good coffee, the sea just before and after a storm, Flight of the Conchords and Stewart Lee and laughing till it hurts, being read out loud to...Rilke, Neruda and Wendell Berry, deep time mystery and myth telling...especially around a fire in the woods - I have been apprenticing myself to stories of wild women, forest men and bear kings this past year, and can spin a good telling under the right kind of starry night.
I have two grown-up children and two step-sons, none living with me at home. Home is by the sea and I own a small woodland, not far from where I live. For the last year, I've been attempting to learn how to look after this land and listen to what might be needed...I spend as much time hanging out with the trees as I can and I have a beautiful little shepherds hut and a woodburner that still needs fitting....in the meantime I build fire and watch the changing seasons.
My bedside book pile right now consists of Die Wise - Stephen Jenkinson, The smell of rain on dust - Martin Prechtel, The Songs of Trees -David Haskell and Application for Release from the Dream - Tony Hoagland. I buy more books than I can possibly read...it's a bad habit that I probably need to deal with.
I am really open to meeting new people and, on my best days, I'm someone who is both curious and delighted by life.
Perhaps you are someone who knows that life is an outrageously exquisite gift, someone who can be both silly and sincere and who is willing to let themselves be seen. And perhaps you don't recognise yourself in this description..feel free to say hello anyway as many of the people dearest to me might not either.
I have spent plenty of time during the last years travelling and I spend a few weeks or months in India most winters....and yet these days I am pulled to home more and more and find myself longing to be rooted and claimed by a place. That said I am typing this on a plane, so I am still occasionally persuaded otherwise and willing to set off on adventures and travels if you have either a good plan or no plan at all.
Finally...I don't need to meet someone who likes or is persuaded by everything I am into, but if you don't fall instantly in love with my dog we probably are not going to get on!
