A score for attunement, accompaniment, and resonance (Listen to this here) Listening often begins as a personal practice. Before we can listen with a river, we first learn how to listen within ourselves. From there, […]
Writing(with)plants: Minitopia, ‘s Hertogenbosch (in Dutch)
Kom naar Minitopia Poeldonk in ‘s Hertogenbosch voor een middag schrijven, wandelen en vertragen te midden van wilgen, circulaire tiny huisjes en de meer-dan-menselijke bewoners van deze plek. Dit is writing(with)plants zoals het bedoeld is: […]
Writing(with)plants – On-land: Minitopia, ‘s Hertogenbosch (in Dutch)
Kom naar Minitopia Poeldonk in ‘s Hertogenbosch voor een middag schrijven, wandelen en vertragen te midden van wilgen, circulaire tiny huisjes en de meer-dan-menselijke bewoners van deze plek. Dit is writing(with)plants zoals het bedoeld is: […]
Ben je ook klaar met (super)heldenverhalen? Zoek je naar een meer feminien verhaal?
Ben je ook een beetje klaar met (super)heldenverhalen?Altijd iemand die alles oplost, alles overwint… het begint voorspelbaar en wat leeg te voelen. Misschien ligt het niet aan jou, maar aan het soort verhalen dat we […]
The wounded healer and wounded healing land – The on-land Writing(with)Plants workshop at the Rooted Festival 2026 in Aarhus, Denmark
Website screenshots from https://www.rootedfestival.com and https://institutforx.dk/ Last weekend, I attended the Rooted Festival in Aarhus. It was already the second time edition, and probably not the last edition. The program You might recognize two bloggers […]
Plants and bog bodies before and after the Ragnarok – a Danish National Museum experience
Today I had landed in Michael Ende’s the NeverEnding Stort. I visited the THE VIKING SORCERESS exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen. The feeling of the first part of the exhibition was an installation […]
Penelope, Unravelled — On Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and the Trickster Who Never Left Home
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has been out for five minutes and people are already arguing about the wrong things. The casting. The runtime. Whether Matt Damon can pull off a Greek hero. Meanwhile, the most interesting character in the whole epic is being ignored again, the way she has been for three thousand years. I’m talking about Penelope. Not the patient wife. The trickster.
The Writing(with)plants Campaign Closed … but You Have One More Month
The crowdfunding campaign for Writing(with)Plants has ended successfully. The book is now in production. But for those who missed it, there is one final opportunity to order your copy at the early supporter price of €40 … this month […]
Quebracho trees in Argentina – on greeting and giving gifts to trees
Every so often, I sit at a table with environmental humanities scholars and discuss topics such as multispecies design. This is how I frequently come across new threads for stories about the wood wide web. […]
The Women and Plants who shape(d) Rome
Another view on Rome, the Eternal city in Italy