The stories of the Netherlands have been pressed as the land has been. This has consequences for how we make contact with ourselves through nature. It’s difficult to feel the rhyme in life - how troubles blend into mercies - when the edges are so closed off.

tinyurl.com/bd4cj6mw

#dutchfolkstories

Calling weavers, the dreamers, tree-singers, marsh dwellers and undergrowth bards. I’m dedicating the winter to putting audio and written stories in front of you.

Be swell to see you 😊

lindenbower.substack.com

#oralstorytelling
#folkstory
#netherlandsfolktale
#forestdwelling
#baarn
#netherlands

Pretty sure my substack is becoming part diary where I work stuff out, part way to release early versions of story. This is more in the diary area - for fans of mythology, oral storytelling and great things that can happen with words, people and a room.

lindenbower.substack.com/p/when-still...

Sunrise breakfast on the polder. Happy Easter everyone 🐣💓🌅

#Poldernews
#Belonging
#Baarn
#Lifeontheapex

My (last and only) fruitful interaction with Meta AI

#metaai
#gonetosignal

"Life is nothing but a series of detours intended to bring us back to those one or two things before which our hearts first opened."

Albert Camus

Heard on Michael Meade's Living Myth podcast

#much
#story
#mythoppetics
#michaelmeade

I want to tell you about the storytelling retreat weekend I'm organising in May.

I want to re-create the kind of weekend where I've made my best friendships, [cont'd in comments]

#storytellingnetherlands
#creativeretreat
#belonging
#mythopoetics
#natureconnection
#getmythordietrying

Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath + study notes

lindenbower.substack.com/p/winter-tre...

#poetry
#womenspoetry
#trees
#treepoetry
#studynotes

📷Gleb Lucky on Unsplash

Threading some thoughts together about heading to the land, will share here over the coming weeks, in preparation for the Belonging weekend in the Netherlands in May.

www.storyourself.com/event/belong...

#storytelling

#landscape

#natureconnection

##mythopoetics

9-11 May we’re going to fill you with stories, immerse you in ritual and send you into the woods to celebrate your connection to all life there.

www.storyourself.com/event/belong...

#storytelling
#natureconnection
#retreat
#mythopoetics

Hanging out at the beech

#baarnsebos
#Netherlands
#trees

Books like this becoming vital in the slow work of getting to know the country I've been living in for 16 years.

Most of NL history I've picked up in scraps or projected from what I know from the UK.
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Local treasures...a thousand stories, wonder tales and anecdotes collected between 1962 and 1978, about a 15km radius around where I live. Keys to the life lived underfoot, far out of usual reach of the expat or social feed.

#storytelling
#goingloco(al)
#folkstory
#storytelling
#baarn
#eemland