What if ancient stories and forgotten laws could help us imagine new ways of living with the Earth? Ireland’s old traditions are not only relics of the past. They are fragments of ecological memory, sometimes […]
A Million Songs: How Latvian Folk Songs Preserved a More-than-human Mythology
This blogpost is part of a documentation of a lecture by Kārlis Lakševics, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Latvia, during the NSU winter symposium on Eco+Mythology. This blogpost follows Rivers, Folk Songs, […]
The grapevine, the gossips, a multispecies voice – how to tell stories that cannot be told, but should be told?
This blogpost is part of the creative process of the upcoming writing(with)plants care(work)book. Currently we do crowdfunding (until April 17th, check here), which means that we are receiving money from backers, but that we are […]
You are invited to join Writing(with)Willow on March 22 and April 12th – and create a multispecies family portrait
This spring I’m inviting you to two special Writing(with)Willow sessions on March 22 and April 12. They are part of the growing writing(with)care project … and also connected to the crowdfunding campaign for the upcoming book. Why willow? Yes, there is a willow […]
Writing (with) Marsh Reed is Becoming Mud
A Growing Gathering Around Plants and Stories The latest Writing (with) Plants session brought together a large and geographically diverse group of participants for a two-hour online gathering dedicated to marsh reeds and the myth of Syrinx. I […]
Skipping International Women’s Day, Rewilding St Patrick’s Day instead
Bringing Back the Snakes and Wild Waters to Ireland Every year as Saint Patrick’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about snakes. Not the symbolic ones we are told were driven out of Ireland by Saint Patrick, but […]
Rivers, Folk Songs, and the More-Than-Human World: Exploring Latvian Ecomythology
Our summer symposium 2026 will take place in Latvia. Therefore, during our NSU circle winter symposium on Eco-mythology (17-18 January 2026), Kārlis Lakševics, a lecturer at the University of Latvia, shared ideas what an Eco-mythology […]
The Writing(with)plants care(work)book is here – Reserve Your Copy
The book What if writing could become a form of care? The care(work)book grows out of five years of writing(with)plants sessions, collective gatherings where people write alongside plants and landscapes, slowing down to notice, reflect and imagine […]
An ecomyth: Rewriting and living the Kalevala’s Nine diseases and sampo
Eco + MythologyEco from oikos: home, household.Myth from mythos: story, narrative.Logy from logos: knowledge, deep inquiry. Eco+Mythology is the art and practice of creating new stories, ceremonies, and rituals calibrated to the needs, challenges, and resources of our time. We live […]
Co-creating an apothecary experience with design students (and Celtic birth trees?)
Last week, together with Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, I facilitated a design workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, with Master’s students in architecture, interior architecture, product development, drawing, and the arts. The overarching theme? Be+longing. There were eighteen workshops running […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 