Now is the time for collecting the seeds to germinate through winter and be the plants for future tree planting. Just being among trees still connects our spirit and reminds us about our purpose of living. This season becomes a fluid time for our stories. Trees and water are constant prompts of memories, and those memories become our stories.

Discussing that title question plus one or two echoes of Nature items and how folklore may interpret them.Social med ia posts are demanding ‘facts’, ‘truth’ and ‘research’, but where does folklore find a place among this. I share my experience of how folklore has been an essential guide for me, compared to ‘facts’ and ‘truth’ that often end up being useless fiction

Art and poetry, human instincts crafted from our abilities to captivate the fancy, enlarge understanding, and express from the cauldron of our heart. Human voice accompanied and transported by the harp to enchant others. Sorrow, joy and dreaming are shared. How was this ancient gift of wisdom banished and the poets and harps exiled f, but they are now returning?

We were at the Leitrim Hawthorn Project day in Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim during Ireland’s Heritage Week and sharing Hawthorn folklore, so here is a quick review.. I talked about Apple folklore in current articles and a course module on my Substack platform, and I introduced a unique folklore retreat we are hosting in the Inner Hebrides after summer solstice 2024.

As August is Lughnasadh month, Harvests become a focus at this time, and traditionally this is the time of most trading. Within our towns, especially small towns, high streets, shops are closed down, Here are some wonderful examples of how some town ‘high streets’ have come back to life as wider community centres. These initiatives are returning old traditions too.

Where is the root of poetry in a person? We explore the surreal and very cryptic ancient mythology of the ‘Cauldrons Of Posey’. i.e., the Cauldron of Incubation, the Cauldron of Motion, and the Cauldron of Wisdom. Or some translators simplify these to Three Cauldrons to nourishment, quests, and wisdom, that is sometimes described as ‘transformation’