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Rosalind Davies

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Teaching because writing is lonely. Writing because teaching is hard. #memoir #nature #belief

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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
5 miles from the nearest road, the head of the West Dart river is just wide enough to stand in. I was very excited to hear it and get eyes on once the reeds were parted. #dartmoor
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is so helpful! www.ourdailyread.com/2025/08/the-...
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The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir | OurDailyRead
It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We stand in internationalist solidarity with Palestinian farmers and their right to food sovereignty. www.foei.org/friends-of-t...
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FoEI condemns the assault on Palestine's national seed bank
The Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC)´s Seed Bank in Hebron is the only national seed bank in Palestine.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Jo in the Water: coming to cinemas this Autumn www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jo-in-the-...
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Jo in the Water: coming to cinemas this Autumn
WOW so close to our target! THANK YOU ALL! Do contribute if you can as we seek to make a really impactful film.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A wonderful new walk will be launched in Totnes on 14 September southhamsway.org.uk
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The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
See what your story could win! Your memoir doesn't need to be finished to enter our Memoir Award. Open internationally to writers 16+ writing in English. Deadline day 30 September. All entry info at bit.ly/memoir-award
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
#autofiction as a genre doesn’t exist. ‘You will not find autofiction as a category on Amazon, nor does it exist as a subject heading in the industry’s BISAC categorization system. If an author has written a work of autofiction, the book is a novel. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Autofiction: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Whether writing autobiographical fiction or memoir, writers must own their truths.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is worth a read for the jokes, the puns and the artwork. It’s also a relief from the ongoing niggle that the Raynor Winn affair has left me with. What is truth in a memoir? Can there ever be truth in a memoir? Is autofiction a better category? davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-salt-p...
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The Salt Path not taken?
And would it matter if it wasn't?
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Looking forward to walking in the company of strangers on the Eden Way today devonpilgrim.org.uk/route/the-ed... #pilgrim #devon
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The Eden Way ‣ Devon Pilgrim
Welcome to the beautiful Teign Valley, an Eden in Devon, combining the rugged hills of Dartmoor with rich farmland and the wooded banks of the river Teign.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. (John Muir)
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Reading @bonnielj.bsky.social ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Rogantide has illuminated the annual beating the bounds ritual - an act that animated the bonds between people and land as they gathered around ‘gospel oaks’.
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Elizabeth Oldfield @elizabetholdfield.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Really looking forward to this event in Exeter on June 19th www.ticketsource.co.uk/growingspiri...
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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
1 week to go until Big Meadow Search 2025 gets underway. All welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record the species you are confident to ID. You can enter data at bigmeadowsearch.co.uk/submit or email your list to bigmeadowsearch@gmail.com
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The desert spaces are places and moments of paradox: knowing amid the unknowing, refreshment in the parched places, life amid death, fecundity in the barrenness, midnight blooming, and acceptance of seasons. cac.org/daily-medita...
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The Deserts in Our Lives
Author and podcaster Cassidy Hall explores the desert as a metaphor for difficult times in our lives:   Sometimes desert conditions invite us to
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
If you are aligned with #quaker values, these are great roles
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
2/2 find participating communities here www.britishpilgrimage.org/resources/su...
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Our Rogation Sunday Campaign — The 2025 Participating Communities - British Pilgrimage Trust
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
1/2 From the Latin, rogare, meaning ask; rogation is the festival that marks the blessing of the land to bring forth good growth. Rooted in the Middle Ages, this tradition involves procession, outdoor prayer, and visiting sacred sites (e.g. wells, sacred trees, high places and landmark boulders).
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Our Rogation Sunday Campaign — The 2025 Participating Communities - British Pilgrimage Trust
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Walkers, bikers, hikers and pilgrims - enter your best photo from the Via Francigena www.viefrancigene.org/en/take-part...
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Take Part in the “Francigena Photo Contest 2025” - Via Francigena
To mark the arrival of summer, the much-loved Francigena Photo Contest 2025 returns – the favourite photography competition among pilgrims.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The last leg of the Via Francigena, on the way to Rome. Read the 5th diary installment, marking the jubilee year. www.viefrancigene.org/vf-blog/the-...
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The Via Francigena in Tuscany: the cradle of beauty  - Via Francigena
We have reached the fifth chapter of our travel diary, this time exploring Tuscany: history, art, and gastronomy.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Photo featuring the back of my head. Not just Gramsci in the opening but you got called a bastard too. All endearing, stimulating and knowledgeable. Thank you.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I so enjoyed hearing @bonnielj.bsky.social talk about our body’s memory of its connection to the land. A poignant note within a celebration of practical knowledge and human labour.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Today at @sharphamtrust.bsky.social with authors @bonnielj.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Poppy Okotcha and @sophiepavs.bsky.social
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. (St. Brendan, 484-577) #celtic #prayer
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#memoirwriting
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
www.ambios.net/restoring-na...
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Restoring Nature: A literary festival - Ambios
Join Ambios and the East Gate Bookshop on the 17th of May at Lower Sharpham Farm for our anual nature-centred literary festival!
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Open Water Swimming
Enjoy Eden Dock’s crystal clear water
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This series has highlighted some of my biases! Foulness is a good example of how the homophone makes a place sound so unappealing. But now rehabilitated!
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
What could i give this plant in return for its generosity? Brian McLaren asks. cac.org/daily-medita...
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Flourishing Is Mutual
If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the “Sun” of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Here's a link to my new Google Map of who owns the South Downs - a near-complete map of ownership covering 100km of the chalk downland: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v... And here's a static, labelled version of the same map below:
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Waiting for #wisteria
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Walk around a Conservation Managed Farm and Woodland | Devon Wildlife Trust
A fascinating walk with Mike Moser.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Apple orchards #Feniton, East Devon today
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This must be how I have got to where I am. I didn’t have these words for it until now. Thank you @elleh555bsky.social #loss #grief #naturewriting
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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hawthorn trees, bluebells, and green boughs were gathered as symbols of fertility, good fortune, and protection against evil. Customs such as “Going a-Maying” — venturing out before sunrise to collect flowers — captured a reverence for the natural world.
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Nomad Podcast @nomadpodcast.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This month, Nomad’s Therapy Network features therapist Nick Erber-LaPierre, who shares his story of growing up in a conservative church, coming out, and finding healing through therapy. www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/therapist-st...
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Nick Erber-LaPierre - Intertwined Paths: My Faith and Therapy Journeys - Nomad Podcast
My faith and therapy journeys are intertwined like leaves creeping up a lattice. I began my journey in a conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran church in the American Midwest—a tradition rooted in north...
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I think there’s an art to being lost. It’s a moment of embodiment and being connected deeply to your surroundings. A time to read the landscape and work out your place in it.
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Dartmoor Collective are seeking visual submissions to their next zine, on the theme of 'Flow', to accompany specially commissioned words from Kirsteen McNish. Submissions open until midnight on Friday 30th May. More info: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/dart... Image: Stephen Peart
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social shaped my own connection to places.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Calling river-lovers: your river needs you! The Big River Watch runs until 1 May. Spend 15 mins by your local river, record what you see in the free BRW app––& help create a clearer picture of UK river health. I'm taking part. More here. @theriverstrust.bsky.social theriverstrust.org/take-action/...
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The Big River Watch
Help improve our rivers. T ake part in The Big RiverWatch survey between 25th April and 1st May!
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth host Michael Rosen heard from zoologist @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social all about how animals communicate, and why they do, and the ways in which animal communication sheds a light on the human variety. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, How Animals Talk
Michael hears about how animals communicate, and why, from zoologist Arik Kershenbaum.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Sea water has 150 times more carbon than the air. This is one of two discoveries today. The other one was elephant birds. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
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Scientists taking carbon out of sea to tackle climate change
A small, UK government-funded project called SeaCURE, has found a way of sucking carbon out of the ocean, and storing it.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I reflect on places I’ve lived, urban and rural, and feel so close to patches of land, a tree root, a lamppost, that a kind of domestication seems to happen. #Devon #naturewriting www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/of-owning-...
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Of owning and being owned
Jade Angeles Fitton writes about Devon as part of our series 'There's a street in my neighbourhood', which has taken us so far from Suffolk to Minneapolis
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The British Pilgrimage Trust @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This St George’s Day, walk the land. Sense the dragons beneath your feet, the green force rising in root and leaf, and the stories that bind England’s soul to myth, mystery, and seasonal renewal. 🌱 What dragons are you meeting this spring? #StGeorgesDay #GreenMan #BritishPilgrimage #MayDay
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Co-create a pine marten story www.devonwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-...
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Two Moors Pine Marten storytelling celebration event - Moor Barton Woods | Devon Wildlife Trust
Come and join us for an afternoon of storytelling and song!
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day! Browse our collection of books and journals that deal with the natural world and the many ways that humans experience and interact with the environment, & use code PENN-EARTHDAY25 for 50% off these books from now through Friday, April 25! www.pennpress.org/earth-day/
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Happy Earth Day! - University of Pennsylvania Press
April 22 is Earth Day, and to celebrate, we’ve pulled together a list of Penn Press books that deal with the natural world and the many ways that humans experience... READ MORE
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Would you like to follow more nature writers or read some nature writing over Easter? You'll find 209 folk to follow on the starter packs & loads of content on #naturewriting feed - just use the hashtag & your posts will be added too. Pls repost 🙏 SP1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D# SP2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Only 2 weeks to go till #nomowmay! Give your piece of land a chance to show its generosity to you! Create a resource for bees and butterflies! Sculpt interesting mown/unmown shapes! And keep some grass short for little birds.
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Rosalind Davies @terradivina.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This sounds interesting! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social should book you up
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our Bookshop of the Month is Bookbag, Exeter – an independent bookshop opened by Charlie and Malcolm in December 2020, in between lockdowns. We spoke to co-founder Charlie, who told us a secret about Faber even we didn’t know... faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-bookbag/
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