Sara McFarland
Lammas, first harvest
As the first harvest arrives and the rains cool the evenings and the swallows fly in flocks like schools of fish above the fields, I...
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Sara McFarland
- Mar 4
- 5 min
The wild others
Out walking with the dogs, along the road and down the path, past the four black horses who, every Sunday go out for a stroll with the...
Sara McFarland
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
The heartbeat of the ancestral Dolmen
Softly, slowing down, rest. I keep hearing these words. From the holy, from other humans, from the earth in winter, from my own body....
Sara McFarland
- Nov 10, 2022
- 5 min
Samhain - on moving house and re-weaving my belonging
Through the days and over the threshold of Samhain and the Day of the Dead, I moved house. This Celtic new year time, the blood moon of...
Sara McFarland
- Oct 22, 2022
- 7 min
Singing the Song of Now:Re-membering ourselves into the great cosmic Songweb of Life
One day last May, I walk in the sacred grove of hawthorn, ash, oak and elder, home to fox, hare, a riot of songbirds and seasonally,...
Sara McFarland
- Oct 3, 2022
- 4 min
Storying with Earth
Each being, by being itself, is telling its story, singing it’s creation. Listen, what is the Red Kite crying out or the fox shouting out...
Sara McFarland
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
Ancestral storytelling
"Story is far older than the art and science of psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes....
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