Fencraft World News
3 November 2020 13:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonSomething to entertain your brain while you try not to look at any other kinds of news today:
Fencraft's sense of the sacred and numinous is formed by the great lostness of history beneath our feet; and additionally, the importance of walking - every day if possible. This is an important news story for us, because the concept of a lost path is what that walking is all about, the rediscovery of hidden ways both otherwordly and as metaphor - a great way back to unrecorded places.
One thing I worry about a lot is how adjacent what I do is to a kind of English nationalism, and my get out for that is looking at leftist socialist traditions as a model. One of the key emphases of that (as depicted in Robin of Sherwood) is the loss of land from a model of commonwealth ownership to a model of ownership by the aristocracy - with most land in the uk still owned by descedents of Norman lords in this period.
This offers an ethical political dimension for the faith to focus on, preventing the creation of a "gap" which might otherwise call people to fill it. The narrative is one of environmentalism, biodiversity, and even archeology - these interests in the land which transcend our time, but rarely have the money or power to fight for themselves - and linked to the lack of power and wealth that ordinary communities have over their area, with consequences for human health, stability, and their connection to where they live.
Very, very cool, and an archetypal example of Landweird. This history has been present (but unrecorded) for centuries under our feet; I'm writing up a meditation series atm which draws focus to the landscape, and sinking down through it, awaking our awareness of the buried and the lost. On Vanished Land and A Warning to the Curious are two key bits of the lore referring to buried Anglo Saxon mysteries specifically.
Finally, I've found that reading about places to go is a really reassuring way to pass lockdown in a stressful year. My husband and I were intending to go on a Weird Britain Roadtrip this summer. So reading lists of places we will go to soon is a real balm, something which keeps my imagination alive.
Your turn: any cool news stories you've found recently? Doesn't have to be Fencraft-specific, but a strict ban on anything stressful or relating to any kind of live news going on today.
Fencraft's sense of the sacred and numinous is formed by the great lostness of history beneath our feet; and additionally, the importance of walking - every day if possible. This is an important news story for us, because the concept of a lost path is what that walking is all about, the rediscovery of hidden ways both otherwordly and as metaphor - a great way back to unrecorded places.
One thing I worry about a lot is how adjacent what I do is to a kind of English nationalism, and my get out for that is looking at leftist socialist traditions as a model. One of the key emphases of that (as depicted in Robin of Sherwood) is the loss of land from a model of commonwealth ownership to a model of ownership by the aristocracy - with most land in the uk still owned by descedents of Norman lords in this period.
This offers an ethical political dimension for the faith to focus on, preventing the creation of a "gap" which might otherwise call people to fill it. The narrative is one of environmentalism, biodiversity, and even archeology - these interests in the land which transcend our time, but rarely have the money or power to fight for themselves - and linked to the lack of power and wealth that ordinary communities have over their area, with consequences for human health, stability, and their connection to where they live.
Very, very cool, and an archetypal example of Landweird. This history has been present (but unrecorded) for centuries under our feet; I'm writing up a meditation series atm which draws focus to the landscape, and sinking down through it, awaking our awareness of the buried and the lost. On Vanished Land and A Warning to the Curious are two key bits of the lore referring to buried Anglo Saxon mysteries specifically.
Finally, I've found that reading about places to go is a really reassuring way to pass lockdown in a stressful year. My husband and I were intending to go on a Weird Britain Roadtrip this summer. So reading lists of places we will go to soon is a real balm, something which keeps my imagination alive.
Your turn: any cool news stories you've found recently? Doesn't have to be Fencraft-specific, but a strict ban on anything stressful or relating to any kind of live news going on today.
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Date: 3 November 2020 15:20 (UTC)https://slowways.uk/
Obviously, there will accessibility issues (which they acknowledge), but I’ve put myself on the list to volunteer to try out local pathways when they are in “beta.”
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Date: 20 November 2020 15:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 3 November 2020 15:30 (UTC)