This website - not intended as a website but collection of writings and audios and not much video, perhaps to attempt to publish properly one day, has three purposes.
The first two are fairly self evident.
To describe and catalog to some extent what i have personally LONG felt is an ideal mode of healthily walking on - momentum is very much part of it...
By which i also mean for many years i have read widely books like Richard Maybe's Nature Cure, To Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and i feel most books in that genre are fundamentally flawed and in fact a little self reverent or narcissistic, and more importantly, i do not think they work as 'guidebooks' on how to move forward, permanently and into something new and better from the vicissitudes of life and its sometimes regular tripping up and ending up at the bottom of an abyss..
landloping on... which may be a very very long process .. there are NO quick fixes, ever..
I shall also here write bettwer material on the 'simple' mode of life - connected in a way to the above.
Then for myse;f i have long known that there is a far gentler mentality - philosophical and in fact far more "human" still in Europe. Uk utterly lost its way 15 or even 20 years ago.
I have many days this summer with Europeans (who make up 75% plus on the SW Coastal Path) some are formally recorded or even we have filmed a little trying to chronicle this....
And to me it is a wonderful 'saudade' - the Portuguese version of the We;sh word "hiraeth" however the Welsh word is dead. It cannot be found again. The Portuguese (you wont find this online!) i have heard face to face state
" saudade,,,isn't finished yet.."
In fact my chat with the Dutch couple yesterday (i recorded part of it below in 277) is 100% saudade - especially chatting with him, i had only met an hour earlier... quiet silences of we were on exactly the same wavelength - no need to say anything the moment we met we knew we were socio-spiritually or just our lifetime experience was one... : " the world has gone a bit mad... but we are ok we still have time to sit and stare.."
total peace...
Attempting to write up the formula that i know worked for me over 15 years is my project. And yes there is ineffable 'magic' or hocus pocus too.. but finding categorically neutral wording for that is the hardest thing of all. Not pushing my own 'belief' on 'something' that i have never read anyone describe in a way that is purely of the certain 'possibility' there is 'something' .. we may never be able to even get close to understanding.
