Community Tree Strategies

How to help save trees
https://savingyourtrees.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/protecting-trees-and-community-tree-strategies/

Stretching the imagination of a secular society

Interview with Margaret Somerville: language, ethics & poetry
https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4691/the-public-intellectual-as-poet-a-conversation-with-margaret-somerville-part-i/

Writing is for scientists too

Darwin and Einstein were writers. Toni Morrison is a writer. On seeing and seeing again. The Ache to Interpret
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-ache-to-interpret-literature-science-and-seeing-again/8371

Swaledales

Beautiful photo
Check out @AmandaOwen8's Tweet: https://twitter.com/AmandaOwen8/status/698216607164821504

Hidden Life of Trees

German best seller. English translation due September 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2

A light in the darkness

Candlemas sermon - Tricia Hillas
In giving light we are consumed
https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/worship/read-sermons/sermon-preached-on-the-feast-of-the-presentation-candlemas-2-february-201-by-revd-canon-tricia-hillas-pastor?utm_content=buffera284a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Joan Didion on writing

Great interview from The Paris Review
As a writer, the extremes always show up - or you go and sell insurance
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3439/the-art-of-fiction-no-71-joan-didion

More fairytales & storytelling

Excellent piece comparing western and Japanese ideas of storytelling
http://lithub.com/our-fairy-tales-ourselves-storytelling-from-east-to-west/?utm_content=bufferb86a2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The pressures of fame

Suicide in young men. A case in point.  Li'l Chris.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3437003/Lil-Chris-inquest-held-following-singers-death.html

Deep mapping & spatial anthropology

An introduction to a special edition of Humanities.
A deep discussion well worth reading and pondering
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/1/5/htm

Storytelling

Michael Morpurgo on National Storytelling Week, from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/feb/01/storytelling-week-michael-morpurgo?CMP=share_btn_tw