Journal

Fluvial Don’t call us ‘river’ as if we were singular – a blue, serpentine line on a map, an ‘s’ from source to estuary; an abstraction to be navigated, straightened. fished, dredged. A g a p i n g mouth for waste disposal. If you must make us ‘river’, sense our communities of muds, molluscs, […]

“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that

How did we end up here? “When one buys a farm and moves there to live, something different begins.  Thoughts begin to be translated into acts.  Truth begins to intrude with its matter-of-fact.  One’s work may be defined in part by one’s visions, but it is defined in part by problems, which the work leads

The Way of Pain  For parents, the only way is hard. We who give life give pain. There is no help. Yet we who give pain give love; by pain we learn the extremity of love. —Wendell Berry This morning seemed like the right time to start. I’ve been meaning to begin this journal for

I am a veterinarian by profession. After graduating from Bristol University in 1991, I spent years working on free-living and captive wildlife projects across Africa and the Middle East until returning to the UK in 2011.  From 2011 to 2014, I ran the aviculture program for breeding raptors at International Wildlife Consultants in Wales. Since