Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
Writer; retired academic. Exploring a panpsychic worldview in a series of co-operative inquiries with River. Papers on action research, nature writing, panpsychism & much more peterreason.net. Posting on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com
Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...
Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...
August 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...
In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling
My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...
August 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...
New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin
July 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
December 9, 2024 at 8:58 AM
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
December 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.
November 27, 2024 at 3:28 PM
... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.
'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'
Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?
November 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?
Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.
November 17, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.
Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives
November 12, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives
The pages are splattered with brown cooking stains that match the illustration of chutney being spooned out of a preserving pan. Other pages... are similarly distressed, but rather less so. All the rest are untouched, almost pristine.
November 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
The pages are splattered with brown cooking stains that match the illustration of chutney being spooned out of a preserving pan. Other pages... are similarly distressed, but rather less so. All the rest are untouched, almost pristine.
New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’
October 4, 2024 at 4:26 PM
New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin
October 1, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin
New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s
September 9, 2024 at 8:52 AM
New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s
Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.
August 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.
New post on Objects&Lives: Table and Chairs, and what my Uncle taught me
August 25, 2024 at 11:39 AM
New post on Objects&Lives: Table and Chairs, and what my Uncle taught me
Cabinets of Curiosity, or The Wunderkabinett, new posting on Objects&Lives with poet Sue Boyle
August 5, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Cabinets of Curiosity, or The Wunderkabinett, new posting on Objects&Lives with poet Sue Boyle