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Psyche’s Nest: Coming Home to Roost
Stories that matter, reflecting on place, kinship, identity and purpose.
May 28, 2024
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Books I loved in 2025
I love recommended book lists with their promise of great books to be read, or the recognition of a shared loved read.
Dec 31, 2025
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When past seeds the future
I am sitting here at my writing group, staring at my blank screen wondering where to start.
Dec 7, 2025
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Sally Gillespie
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Re-framing the question
What should I do?
Nov 14, 2025
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Sally Gillespie
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Working with what's here
Down in the community garden, we are uneasily eying the cloudless skies as we spread manure and plant seedlings.
Oct 24, 2025
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Connections and cross-pollinations
Sep 26, 2025
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Roots and all
I have just come in from the balcony where I have been making seed raising mix and fantasising about lush seedlings.
Sep 5, 2025
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Going to Ground
After more than a month off Substack, I am gazing at a blank page trying to find words for what has happened since I last posted.
Aug 15, 2025
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Talking Earthy: Making words matter
Like many of you, I am in the midst of re-examining so much about myself, my life, our world.
Jul 11, 2025
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Reciprocity: my interview with Julie Gabrielli
Hello fellow Psyche’s Nesters!
Jun 27, 2025
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How do you know plants? By sight, smell, taste, story or name?
I am showing some new volunteers around our local permaculture Food Forest introducing them to as many trees, shrubs and groundcovers as I can remember.
Jun 13, 2025
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My Substack Year
Plunging, posting, practicing and playing .
May 30, 2025
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Sally Gillespie
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Attentiveness in three simple lines
The first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and its built entirely out of attentiveness. Mary Oliver
May 16, 2025
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Hope in Times of Climate Crisis with Sally Gillespie
A recording from Sally Gillespie and Catriona Knapman's live video
May 9, 2025
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Sally Gillespie
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Catriona Knapman
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