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Reciprocity by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Inspired by David Abram’s marvellous book Becoming Animal, I have been thinking a lot about reciprocity today. And about the lack of it. In our culture, insulated ... Read on »

Wild Elders by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Just as we could say that becoming an adult it is the overall developmental task of the child, I believe that the overall developmental task of every adult is to become ... Read on »

This Little Cog Went Walkabout by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Today I read blog post about blogging. It was a list entitled '10 Things Bloggers Should Not Do'. Item #6 was: You Must Not Fail To Update Your Bl ... Read on »

When Will They Ever Learn? by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living You would think, wouldn't you, that after the huge environmental disaster that happened in the Gulf of Mexico, there would be a serious re-think about the obvious dangers o ... Read on »

Close Quarters by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living My blog tour is over and I am home. It was intended to last another week or two, but I decided it was time to stop. Somehow, it felt finished. This time of year, in ... Read on »

Spirit of Green by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The other little corner of cyberspace that I paid a visit to this week was a lively, green site called 'Earth Pages'. Here, I talked about the experience of the astronau ... Read on »

On Deck - and in community. by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Today's stop on my 'virtual blog tour' is one of the online communities I belong to. This one is the Creation Spirituality Communities Network, a rapidly-growing community ... Read on »

Today’s topic: ‘Sacred Messiness’ by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living As I said yesterday, this is a busy week, with two visits in quick succession. Today, thanks to my friend Tess Giles, I am making a guest appearance on a wonderful site ... Read on »

Rainy Day Visit by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living My virtual book tour, up until now, has been proceeding at a leisurely pace. But suddenly, this week, all that has changed. I am making two stops in the same week—one today ... Read on »

GreenSpirit Book Tour, Stop #3: 'The Madeleine Syndrome' by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Alison Shaffer’s blog, ‘Meadowsweet and Myrrh’ is “…for the whispering poet and enchanted naturalist that dwells within each of us, jostling elbows with the anarchist, the ... Read on »

Stop #2 - Seven Generational Ruminations by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Getting to the second stop on my 'virtual book tour' took longer than expected because of a technical glitch in getting my post on to that site (they have such a problem wi ... Read on »

On the Road Again (sort of!) by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living When my book Elderwoman was first published, I spent several weeks touring around, giving talks and workshops and signing books. It was all very interesting and enjoyab ... Read on »

Familiarity breeds ... by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living ... no, not contempt. Just a dulling of the senses: a loss of awe and amazement: a gradual failure of the 'wow' response. I was thinking about this as I got ready to set ... Read on »

Slowly to Spain and Back by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I took time out from the bustle and busyness of promoting the new GreenSpirit book and - together with my beloved partner and soulmate Sky of course - spent three quie ... Read on »

The Man Who Was Not Green by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I will not be wearing green today. I will NOT celebrate St Patrick’s Day, today or any other year. No way!! Do you know why? Because if the legend is true, then P ... Read on »

Balancing Act by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living I’ve become a bit unbalanced of late. No, I don’t mean that I have been toppling over or that my mental health is any more precarious than it ever was, but that the ratio ... Read on »

Fear of Falling by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The lanes have been icy and slick this past week and there have been some mornings that I missed my usual walk because I was fearful of slipping. Fear of falling makes me ... Read on »

My Life as a Squirrel by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living After several weeks of rain and overcast skies, the sun finally shone. And for a winter’s day, the temperature of the air was surprisingly balmy. I suddenly noticed do ... Read on »

A Sense of Purpose by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Five tiny fingers, each but an inch long. I remember how they used to curl around one of mine, gripping with all the prehensile power of that old monkey gene. The rosebud m ... Read on »

A Sense of Purpose by Marian Van Eyk McCain Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Five tiny fingers, each but an inch long. I remember how they used to curl around one of mine, gripping with all the prehensile power of that old monkey gene. The rosebud ... Read on »

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