How much I have frittered away Leaving loaded expectations hanging on lost tomorrows I’ll attend to my dreams later Like they were just dreams …floating in the distance Like somehow they would just happen if I waited …and waited …and distracted myself …and waited. Time isn’t that thing you had last Tuesday when you sat down in front of your …
LIFEbeat at Embercombe
Last week the Linhay came to life; its rooms were filled with music, rhythms, singing and the alchemy of making food fresh from the land. Embercombe was filled with the spirit, life and energy of 50 14- 18 year olds from Bristol and London as Embercombe and LIFEbeat embarked on their second year of collaboration. This collaboration supports young people …
The Class 12 ‘Convergence’ – blog by Arthur Sawyer
The class 12 ‘Convergence’ with Edinburgh Steiner School at Embercombe, was a brilliant way to finish off the school year, presenting us with thoughts of leadership, the environment and our futures in the coming years. The trip consisted of a 5 day residential course which involved a range of activities such as debating, discussion, and manual labour, which resulted in …
The Beginning by Sarah, aka Twiggy.
As the warm summer breeze sweeps through Embercombe, with it a new group of volunteers come to join the community. The summer’s programme is a short one, just 2 months, and we are already 2 weeks in, but it feels like a lifetime in the most wonderful of ways. The beginning is always daunting. Even as I start to write …
Abir’s Poem from Lifebeat at Embercombe
We wrote this poem eating deer meat On the last full day of Embercombe Lifebeat About all the help, support and care From beautiful people Abir met there. My card workshop was with Valentina She helped printing leaves – you should have seen her. Katie and Kathy looked after me with Alex All great hearted queens of the female sex …
Catalyst… Three Years On by Harry Corder Greaves
“The ripples that continue to flow out into my life. Catalyst reconnected me to my voice, my love of poetry and reading aloud. This interest has flourished and I am now writing and performing regularly, poetry that, I hope, will inspire others to deepen their own journeys and live closer to nature and their own wild selves. I read aloud …
Reflections on The Journey
Ten days after completing The Journey I still feel as if I’m walking on air. I feel so much lighter and more outward-focused after months of introspection and an all-encompassing feeling of heaviness that kept me trapped in a seemingly safe bubble of protective behaviour patterns. Now I’m excited about the future and have full trust in my own abilities …
Working with Wood… and Diggers
In Spring we had a delivery of Larch in the round donated to us by a friend of Embercombe. Over the past few weeks volunteers have been learning how to use a saw mill on site to process the timber. All the saw dust from processing is used as a mulch on the land and the off-cuts keep us warm! We …
Sunshine and Seedlings
Back in March we said goodbye to our previous grower, Dan, and hello to our new grower, Fred. The garden team – consisting of Fred, Johnny, Katy (garden apprentice), Ronja and Jeff (garden volunteers) have been very busy these last few months propagating plants and preparing the land for the summer with generous applications of cow manure kindly given to …
From the Dreamer’s Journal – A Poem
When did I become a tourist here? Forgot how to see and how to hear? Hear the sea, see the here, now. How did my feet become so soft? And when did I decide TV was a better way to chase my time away? Than watching glowing embers breathe and sigh, beneath the fire-full, star-rimmed sky? When did I internalize …