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“It’s 7 years since our friend Mary Palmer left us. She died from cancer a day after my birthday in 2009. We were both born in that most...

In the scary aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, some of the wiser souls I know have voiced the importance of standing together, of...

<p>I wanted to write something else about the EU referendum – or rather about one aspect of the consequences now unfolding at dizzying speed. How, though, to make that relevant to the focus of this blog? Well, when you stand &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/whats-the-story-to-get-to-a-better-society/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to live in a time when you can see that your society is wilfully racing towards political disaster – war, say, or violent revolution, or fascist supremacy – and no appeal either &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/like-a-slow-motion-car-crash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>There are not too many dinosaurs in Britain today, unless you count the birds. And as a kid with my animal books I was underwhelmed by the slender list of living reptiles this country boasts: three kinds of snake and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/reptile-and-amphibian-memories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/words-of-re-enchantment">Druid Life</a>: <br />Anthony Nanson’s ‘Words of re-enchantment’ is a collection of essays which its subtitle labels as storytelling, myth and ecological desire. I’d go a lot further than this, because it’s a relevant book for anyone wanting&hellip;</p>

<p>Years ago I saw a storytelling show quite unlike any I’ve seen before or since. In I Become Part of It the Company of Storytellers – Pomme Clayton, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton – attempted to evoke the imaginative world of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/mesolithic-storytelling-made-graphic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>It’s a long way from Central Africa to Gloucestershire, but it’s ideas and commitment, not location, that make a utopia. In Anthony Nanson’s Deep Time we are introduced to a number of different communities, some striving for an ideal and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/crafting-utopias-by-kirsty-hartsiotis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Néandertal is a 2010 film about the fateful encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s also, as usual in this genre, a love story – with the usual pattern of gender and race: the man is a &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/neanderthal-man-and-cro-magnon-woman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-puzzle-of-the-wood/">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />? This was the late, great novelist Robert Holdstock’s flash of genius &#8211; one that came to him in a writing workshop in Milford-on-Sea in 1979, which resulted in an award-winning short story (1981),&hellip;</p>