When grief arrives, we often expect to handle it quickly and in private. But in the old traditions of Eastern Finland and Karelia, grief was handled more gently. Grief was shared out loud and held by […]
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ECO+THANATOLOGY 2026: Call for contributions for our online NSU autumn symposium (Deadline 15 September 2025)
Co-create with us in the weekend of 12-13 December 2026 and share your paper drafts, prayers, poems, practice experimentations with us by September 15th for feedback from an international community of practitioners, poets and scholars […]
Online symposium: ECO+THANATOLOGY
Call for contributions is open until September 15th: https://woodwidewebstories.com/2026/08/13/ecothanatology-2026-call-for-contributions-for-our-online-nsu-autumn-symposium-deadline-15-october-2025/
An Ash Tree in London’s Old Burial Ground
This story was originally published on https://www.story.one/en/story/an-ash-tree-in-londons-old-burial-ground/ © Wendy Wuyts 2021-11-25. I found back this old blogpost when I prepared the writing(with)Ash session happening later today, 3-5 PM Oslo time, or 2-4PM London time. You […]
Flowing with Eglė: remaining open for bittersweet deaths
Where can we live? Where can we thrive? There’s a million and one mysteries to be explored in life, but in this blog I want to write about my foundation for joy and thriving. In […]
Flowing with Eglė : Birch, her lover, her fantasy, her carnival mask
Today, I facilitated another Writing(with)Plants session, this time inviting the presence of the birch tree. During the creative writing segment, I found myself exploring who Birch might have been before transforming into a tree, inspired […]
An Ash Tree in Os – a feminist science fiction story about grief and loss – got published
“I stared out at the swamp, the master cook of nature and the grave of many. I could feel the wounds of the swamp, like I felt my bruises. The swamp and I were full […]
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 […]
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 […]
Forest bathing as a way of life (?)
The International Forest Therapy Day (IFTD) are returning this summer, with an interesting new theme. I am not original and copied the theme in the title. Forest bathing Forest bathing – or shinrin yoku is […]