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 […]
Category: Flowing with Eglė
The water lily, the serpent and the nøkk, an ecofeminist trinity?
This website celebrates it’s 6th birthday today. Since I decided around autumn equinox 2018 to be vulnerable and share my observations, experiences and thoughts about deep human nature connection, the website has been changing a […]
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 […]
Coming home
To get things out of the way, I would like to begin my first blog with death. As integral part of, not in opposition to, life. Sweet foreshadowing of coming home, full circle. The western […]
Digging in the stones, trees, mud, wetlands and folklore surrounding the Belgian Black Madonna (de Zwarte Madam)
(Originally I planned this as an academic article, but I decided to rewrite it into a blog and share it publicly on this website; I refer to previous work by other researchers. I also used […]