Archive - Roots of Belonging

Dream story of belonging

Journeys as an outsider through the Lake District and Peak District National Parks

Jun 16 •

Isabella McDonnell

November 2024

A Language of Togetherness: Issue #2

Oubaitori (桜梅桃李): on growing and blooming in one's own time

Nov 28, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

A Language of Togetherness: Issue #1

Querencia (n. Español) and Einhausung (n. Deutsch)

Nov 11, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

October 2024

In search of the gold

The gifts of forest bathing in community and feeling-with autumn's bounty.

Oct 13, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

July 2024

A rootless summer

Migration and dispersed roots as home

Jul 13, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

June 2024

Fossilised selves: animate language as collective care

After Robin Wall Kimmerer and María Puig de la Bellacasa

Jun 12, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

May 2024

Kin to Everything

The sharp edges of exclusive possession | Universal threads | Non-human activism and boundaries.

May 27, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

Glowing in the dark

Bioluminescence: On ecological re-enchantment and trans-species solidarity through dark times.

May 10, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

March 2024

On third places and beavers

Reflecting on nesting vs home-building | Land access and justice | Taking solace and inspiration from wild beavers | Third places as a means of an…

Mar 11, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

February 2024

Togetherness as rewilding

On 'wild mind belonging to wild earth' (After David Hinton)

Feb 12, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

Language as a border crossing

Writing as a praxis of belonging

Feb 4, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

January 2024

Land as Body, Body as Home

Notes on embodied philosophy | Bodily imaginaries | The collective body | Belonging as a collective practice of home-building

Jan 27, 2024 •

Isabella McDonnell

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