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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The pages are splattered with brown cooking stains that match the illustration of chutney being spooned out of a preserving pan. Other pages... are similarly distressed, but rather less so. All the rest are untouched, almost pristine.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

New post on Objects&Lives: Table and Chairs, and what my Uncle taught me

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Cabinets of Curiosity, or The Wunderkabinett, new posting on Objects&Lives with poet Sue Boyle

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

New post on Learning How Land Speaks. Australian Indigenous Elders explain that ‘when you take care of Country, Country will take care of you’. They teach us the words from Indigenous languages, rinyi, pirlirr and liyan, which teach us to listen deeply to the spirit of Country.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

River as Teacher. Second conversation between me and Andreas Weber @biopoetics. 'The point of life is to beget life, and this whole reality is alive'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

The Inner Work: a conversation with Andreas Weber. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Do the dishes and teacups from your childhood evoke vivid memories of joy and sadness? New post on Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Startled by Kingfisher. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks. As Tioikasin Ghosthorse tells us 'No matter what language you speak, a hidden, nurturing world is already at work with you'.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Objects are not to be dismissed as mere matter, for things in themselves makes links with the human psyche; they connect us, directly and viscerally, to memories of people, places, and events. New post on Objects&Lives: Oak Chest

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

New substack posting on Object&Lives from guest poet Ama Bolton: Pocket Handkerchief. Objects&Lives features short writing & imagery reflecting on household and personal objects that hold value through the memories they hold and their associations with family & cultural history.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

New post on Learning How Land Speaks by guest writer Freya Mathews, panpsychic philosopher. ' the ‘language’ that the cosmos will speak in response to our invocations can only be… the language of poetics, of imagery, of meaning conveyed through the symbolic resonance of things'.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

New Posting on Learning How Land Speaks: The Deep Time Walk with ecologist Stephan Harding

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

On being a Mourner at the Funeral for Nature in Bath peterreason.substack.com/p/funeral-fo... #CodeRedForNature; #RebelForTruth; #RebelForLife

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

'Go I know not where, bring back I know not what'. Reflections on talking with River

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

What is it like to live in a world of sentient beings rather than inert objects? How would we relate to such a world? There are still spaces on the fourth Living Waters co-operative inquiry hosted at Schumacher College www.dartington.org/event/living...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

More reflections on the co-operative inquiry group on Learning How Land Speaks. What is it like to live in a world of sentient beings rather than inert objects?

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

New Post on Learning How Land Speaks. Artful, poetic, physical languages of connection.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

The world responds to our River ceremony of thanks with a shower of rain. New posting in Learning How Land Speaks

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

New posting on Learning How Land Speaks from Freya Mathews: 'It is the cosmos itself, understood as living presence, that re-constellates itself in this way in response to an act of address.'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Hydroglyphs. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks. 'The drawings are quick. I arrive with my senses and stories, however I am in that moment. River runs, ancient and young simultaneously; always River, but always changing, speaking in a thousand languages.'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

New post on Learning How Land Speaks: Ontopoetic experiences: Responses from animals. Exeriential evidence from co-operative inquiries exploring panpsychic worldview

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

The meaning of ontopoetics. New post on Learning How Land Speaks from panpsychic philosopher Freya Mathews.

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