An Animist Writing Circle
With Rachel Fleming, Colin Campbell & Manda Scott
and featuring special workshop guests
In the early days, and in some places now, there were holy people, the saints and monks, the scribes and poets, who would offer themselves as intermediaries between this world and the other. They would sit in those places where the veils were thin, beside cave walls, at springs and trees and mountain tops, on islands and in deep woods, and take down the sacred words and instructions they heard. These would be offered as gifts and guiding lore to their villages and communities, sometimes they would become the origin of myth.
In these times now, when we listen for the wisdom of a world beyond, when we strive to understand the primary text of nature and the lore of the land, and we look for guidance for imagining a future in which all things thrive, we invite you to sit beside those veils again.
In our time together as a circle of scribes, we will tune our ears to the subtle frequencies and with pens in hand, we will commit ourselves to the ritual practice of reciprocity with the natural world, we will aim to hear the quieter conversation, the common wild tongue, and we will translate and offer it back to our communities in service of our future and past generations.