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Into the Glen it’s cool and grey, the grass green from all the rain. Someone has turned the Poplar stump into a cauldron by adding a stirrer. Empty, it seems to beckon to the water – so near and yet so far. There, could be a few rounds of spell churning here and a littleContinue reading “Monday 22.02.2021 small changes”

The Glen is busy on a full day for me, I slip out for an hour. At the gates there is a garda car and on entering I see a pair of relaxed gards in shirtsleeves laughing and having a chat with a man at the style. I am in woolly hat with pompom, scarfContinue reading “Sunday 21.02.2021 busy”

It has rained so much the river is rushing over itself and its banks slippery on the surface and clean, the ground is a wet sponge and the air is clean with alternating sun and full clouds. A spider man hat waterlogged has been placed on a post. I pass the fence posts to theContinue reading “Saturday 21.02.2021 River paths”

The river flows very fast today and I hear it has has even broken the wall by the hatch, I didn’t make it that far today being transfixed by the O’Brien footprint. I get to the Glen late after a day of multiple connections. M the dancer and friend of Maeve Fleischmann, organised a zoomContinue reading “Friday 19.02.2021 Gleann na Puca”

Something placed to prevent two worlds colliding, mingling, using one another as passage. Here’s a bollard, been here a long time, growing bracket fungi on its top and sides. Smaller, less highly coloured than the one in Cork, and fed largely by nutrients in asphalt of different ages and in the cracks between them. It’sContinue reading “Response to the Call”

Today these places have changed again. The ice has gone, and the mud is deep and churned at least three times the width of where the path once was by feet trying to cross without sinking too deep. The margins have become the throughway, and the throughway is a pitted mire between them, part blackContinue reading “Where Something Else Was”

There is always a sens of arrival to the Glen, into a place that opens up with every footstep and today’s Spring weather buffeting, sun-kissing, clouding over, opening, by turns lifts this little fold and tuck into a place of enchantment. As I entered from the road a bright promise of a rainbow hovered inContinue reading “Tuesday 15.02.2021 spring again dreamy weather”