Why HEARTHLIGHT
Welcome! I invite you, if you can pause a moment, to read my reflections by the light of a fire, a candle flame will do. Here you will find musings that happen around the LIGHT of a fire, HEART felt…
OUR HANDS OF CREATION
I am grateful to ArenaCreations' help in creating this, my new website. As part of Hearthlight's launch we are selling bags of suede and leather offcuts (see below). This article explains a bit about the connection between the website and…
A Short Biography Written for Luna Girls
I have worked with children and young people across the globe for over 20 years. I am a mentor, Waldorf Teacher, Forest School leader, creator, traveller, writer and mother. Below is a little gallop through my story. I wrote it…
Reconnecting Mothers and Nature
How a mother’s connection to nature shaped and strengthened her parenting (originally published on https://wetheparents.org/reconnecting-mothers-and-nature) My guiding song through a diverse life path has been a connection with nature. For me this includes a deep connection with our own human…
16 Ways New Mothers May Draw Strength From Nature
A mother shares how connection to nature and self-supported her parenting (originally published on https://wetheparents.org/mothers-draw-strength-from-nature) I was very nearly 41 years old when I gave birth for the first time. I spent months preparing for a positive birth experience. We…
Stay at Home
A Cyclical Story of Mixed Magic and Healing Light: adventures past and present of a stay-at-home mother and striving to be knight There is a knighthood of the Twentieth century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of physical…
DREAMTIME…navigating menstrual flow
Friday 13th November 2020…..New Moon in Scorpio leading us to the depths Last night I dream. Yes, that mixture of tenses, grammatically incorrect and yet somehow, for me, suggesting something of the moontime, cyclical time, non linear time that I…
The Woodland Classroom
THE WOODLAND CLASSROOM (Chapter 15 in Crafting: Transforming Materials and the Maker, Radically Redefining Learning. Published 2019 by Hands On Press) The gate to the primary school where I work once a week in rural Herefordshire is locked with a…