The shifting terrain of reality and mythic imagination.

Where hills heave and steam like animal flanks. Of hill country, Animism, Shamanism, and places where stories stick with the Silver Birch at my back.

Dear Forest Hearts

The Peak District is hill country. Valleys wend their way between, with rivers and streams at their heart. Out here the land is louder, less tamed. It doesn’t have the forests it once had, having been stripped in Neolithic times and further groomed by the sheep since then, but it has a wildness and a starkness on its high moors. Out ar…