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		<title>May</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What potent blood hath modest May. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson May&#8217;s story, like its weather, has been unsettled, dislocated. But amidst the trying times, many things on the croft thrive. In spite of our worst fears, our honeybees are alive. The wildflowers on the headland were so late this year; David brought in branches of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=378&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regret</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/05/15/regret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hebridean life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This beautiful short essay by David Whyte, originally published in The Oberver (http://www.davidwhyte.com/pdf%20files/Observer_Regret.pdf) and recently shared by him in full on Facebook, seemed worthy of additional sharing here. Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word; an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. It is also a rarity and almost never [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=370&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our first Outer Hebrides writing retreats</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/05/14/our-first-outer-hebrides-writing-retreats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecopsychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my recent post about our plans to offer writers&#8217; retreats here in the wild and beautiful Western Isles, we now have some courses and some dates to offer. From September 28 &#8211; October 5 this year we&#8217;ll be running a &#8216;Re-enchanting the Earth&#8217; retreat for both men and women. (We&#8217;ll also be running [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=368&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hebridean life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narrative ecopsychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not usually in the habit of writing deeply personal blog posts, unless (as with my last one, &#8216;When Things Fall Apart&#8216;) I think they deal with a more universal kind of issue that I believe may resonate with other people. I worry often that it&#8217;s self-indulgent &#8211; or just plain boring! But this has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=323&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When things fall apart</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/05/04/when-things-fall-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 11:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hebridean life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a story that I love to tell, and it&#8217;s a story that I used to open the &#8216;Singing Over the Bones: Women Writing the Wild&#8217; retreat a couple of weeks ago. (If you&#8217;re interested in where it comes from, please have a look at the footnote at the bottom of this post.) It&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=308&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retreating to home ground</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/05/02/retreating-to-home-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 06:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breanish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isle of Lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Singing Over the Bones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uig]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was away in Inverness-shire leading (with my friend Roselle Angwin) a writers&#8217; retreat for women: a &#8216;Singing Over the Bones: Women Writing the Wild&#8217; course, to be precise. It was the first of what I hope will be a series of such retreats, and for sure it surpassed all expectations. It was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=301&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Everyman: some thoughts on building community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storytelling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting here for Everyman &#8212; Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand Waiting here for Everyman &#8212; Don&#8217;t ask me if he&#8217;ll show &#8212; I don&#8217;t know Make it on your own if you think you can Somewhere later on you&#8217;ll have to take [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=263&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Shaw on why we can&#8217;t just throw out the old stories while searching for the new</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/04/06/martin-shaw-on-why-we-cant-just-throw-out-the-old-stories-while-searching-for-the-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Myths & fairy tales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mythtelling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first posts on this blog at the beginning of last year related to my concerns about increasing numbers of calls by various groups and individuals around the world for &#8216;new stories&#8217;. Don&#8217;t misunderstand: those calls for new stories sprang from an important place: the notion that the stories which we tell ourselves about our [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=248&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool, unlying life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DH Lawrence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Escape When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=245&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-enchanting the Earth online course: narrative ecopsychology</title>
		<link>http://reenchantingtheearth.com/2013/03/28/re-enchanting-the-earth-online-course-narrative-ecopsychology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Blackie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After announcing the online course that I&#8217;ve put together for writing about nature, place and the environment, I&#8217;ve been asked by a number of people whether it would be possible to offer a similar course on the kinds of issues I write about here at Re-enchanting the Earth, based on my work in narrative psychology. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reenchantingtheearth.com&#038;blog=33975457&#038;post=220&#038;subd=reenchantingtheearth&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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