Archive - The Life Boat

An ordinary rain

is not ordinary

Nov 6 •

October 2024

Cloud, Moon, Wave

at the still point in the centre of the whirling world

Oct 30 •

The gift of darkness

where colour is born

Oct 23 •

Three Ways of Looking at the Forth

exploring the poetic ecology of a river with Garry MacKenzie

Oct 16 •

39:52

Time is a thickening mist, an intricate web

Oct 9 •

Where the light gives way

dark flows in at the turning of the tide

Oct 2 •

September 2024

On keeping faith

This creative life is a marathon, not a sprint

Sep 25 •

Cloudmakers and tiny rain gods

Going deeper into the fog

Sep 18 •

Sailing into the fog

Notes on the gentle art of persistence

Sep 11 •

Art is an act of veneration and thanksgiving

for the world we have, while we have it

Sep 4 •

August 2024

Silence is ecological

Silence is our birthright and our natural home. It's political. And it’s subversive.

Aug 28 •

In search of a word for edgelessness

a dark-light word, a sea word

Aug 21 •

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