In this winter and spring, we are combining two projects: the Flowing with Eglė – Project and the Writing (with) plants – Project. The myth of Eglė who transforms herself and her four children into […]
Category: Baltic Wood Stories
Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Flowing with Eglė: Leaving the Patriarchy
Eglė let me re-member my devastated grandmother in May 1945. The day the war was over and the Red Army on their way west, she decided together with her husband to flee within a matter […]
Flowing with Eglė: The beginning is about her readiness
This is a female text, a mix of an account of observations, thoughts and fragments of a fiction story-to-become on an inhabited island in the Stockholm Archipelago. This story happens on a coastline of the […]
Encountering Eglė/Spruce in Riga, Latvia – a new project announement
Last midwinter holidays, I talked shortly with an old friend about upcoming travels, including to the Baltic States. I said I would return for work to Estonia and Latvia after a long time. Curiously, I […]
Sacred trees in Estonia: Ilumägi hill’s lime tree
Is this where I have to be? My private Bolt driver looked over his right shoulder to me. We were at the crossroads in the middle of nowhere in Estonia, with fields, a church and […]
Many ethnic Estonians believe in “souls of trees”
This week I got to know the work of religious study scholars from Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, after I talked with a scholar from Lithuania, who has been rooting in Belgium for a long […]
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