You may have heard it said, “Don’t cast your pearls before pigs.” But this week the pigs are the pearls. Checking in again after a few weeks of navigating the mental disruption of our times that many of us are feeling – some good days, some bad days. This one is about finding your way into a safe nest and taking heart—along with spring—that our ideas and plans really are coming to life irresistibly. And plenty of close-up piglet chat.
What Would Like To Grow Here?
Adjusting to a new pattern of life and creative opportunity under 'shelter at home' orders, this episode is a rather personal reflection but I hope you will find resonance in it. Accompanied again by morning birdsong in my back garden, this is about trying to find a way through the conflict of feelings many of us are going through at the moment.
Garden Gratitude
Relocating to my garden as we start retreating into our homes to stay safe from The Virus, I dust down the recording equipment and share an attitude of gratitude to help us stay connected and inspired. This episode includes a simple exercise for grounding in what we can be grateful for.
Simplicity
This week's episode takes a softer tone, creating space to reflect with an short exercise to find—and act on—simplicity. In this rare blistering heat of our English summer, the necessity of taking a slower pace means approaching tasks much more mindfully. Finding simplicity and focusing on a few tasks alone can really help.
In Step With Seasons
“This is not birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea, but it is still the earth and the air and the sun, and growth, and life persisting. Learning how to slow down and settle into pace with seasons – of work and ideas and inventing and solving, balanced with rest and reflection, nourishment, quiet germination of new life…”
Finding Flow
Finding flow to keep great plans hatching, even when the world out there is too ridiculous to fathom and hiding seems like the best plan!
Gently Into New Year
In these short, cold days of January, it's better to go gently into a new year and give plans time to take root, so give up over-ambitious resolutions, come and take a seat on my bench and give new plans the easy nurture they need for this new year.
Creative Courage
This week we follow seeds of hope from episode 06 with a big dose of creative courage, just loving those ideas into bold and beautiful life! What is creative courage, and how do we bring it to our work and life?
Planting Seeds
Welcome retreat from normal routine of work plans and content marketing strategies. This week, planting winter seeds in fresh soil, I'm letting the seeds teach me about how inspiration sometimes works – slowly and secretly.
Turning Seasons
Turning seasons here at the farm as Autumn takes hold, and cause to reflect on brilliant seasons of work and life now done – what have been your most inspiring seasons?
Peace Amongst Plants
This week, it's welcome peace and calm at the farm after a busy little while. I take a moment to explain what my work is all about, and enjoy a short pause amongst the plants before our working week kicks off again.
True to the Roots
Inspired this week thinking about roots and staying true to an original mission. And thanks too, for the brilliant people who founded Windmill Hill City Farm 40 years ago.
Nurturing Ideas
This episode is all about how best to nurture ideas at different stages along the creative journey. In this episode I'm learning lessons as I prune sweet peas and cherry tomatoes, which ask for different sort of attention.
Welcome to the Farm
Week one, and introduction to the creative inspiration, encouragement and clear thinking I discover from amongst the plants and animals on my allotment at Windmill Hill City Farm.