In Vilnius, I joined a guided walk into a hidden courtyard in the old Jewish district. I would never have found it alone. There stood a statue, placed there in 1987, tucked away where memory […]
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Flowing with Eglė: From desexualised wastelands to hydrosexuality in Skagen
In this blog post (20 minutes reading time, please brew some tea and enjoy), I share reflections on my short holiday visit to Skagen in Denmark, the place where the Baltic Sea meets the North […]
Sacred trees, Mystic Caves and Holy Wells in rural Spain – or to-visit-sites in your next Spain trip
Recently, I rediscovered a paper by Jaime Tatay, published in the journal Religion, while organizing my drive and considering the publication of a book about sacred trees based on a decade of research. The paper […]
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 […]
Wandering in the misty mountains of Taiwan – meeting Tree Lords, and myself in Xitou and Alishan
Last August, I was for some weeks again in Taiwan and spent most of the time in Taipei. Taiwan is full of amazing trees. I could not stop taking pictures. At some point I had […]
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