Just spent a day with trainee GPs. We explored “blue health”, created psychographic walks, took photographs, wrote poetry and made zines. I thought of Seamus Heaney’s poem, Postscript, in which “soft buffetings…catch the heart off guard and blow it open.” Some of their poems were like that ❤️

I’ll raise you another door and another garden

It’s always a pleasure to teach a medical humanities module to @uniofexeter.bsky.social medical students - we use #psychogeography to help bring new eyes to familiar landscapes. Environmentally aware docs can empathise with patients & practice self care #wellbeing #writing #creativewalking

Today was a long walk day. Just walking and being. #walking #cornwall #simple

Charity shop find. Perfect reading while storm Bert gets going. Swotting up on my countryside access rights. “In this era of climactic change, we must look to our local landscapes..to grasp the fragility and transience of our natural habitat” (Nick Crane) #natureguardians #restorenature #wellbeing

Ecological citizenship in action #falmouth #cornwall #climatecare

I’m a big fan of zine making. Our creative friends at the RENEW #futureofbiodiversity conference invented the Portrait of Humanity Press. Changing the world one fish-person at a time @justplainscrambled.bsky.social @poetry-society.bsky.social @uniofexeter.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Morning.

Weirdly warm autumn walks on the coast path as we slide toward winter. Wild ponies, funghi (wax caps?), buzzards and kestrels.