There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.

David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

(via thewriterscaravan)

In a society that accords priority to that which is predictable and places a premium on certainty, our spontaneous, preconceptual experience when acknowledged at all, is referred to as “merely subjective.” The fluid realm of direct experience has come to be seen as a secondary derivative dimension, a mere consequence of events unfolding in the “realer” world of quantifiable and measurable scientific facts.

David Abram (via inthenoosphere)

dun-scathach:

Allt Easdal, on the southern slopes of Bentangaval, Eilean Bharraigh (Isle of Barra), Western Isles, Scotland.

People have lived in this now deserted valley for about 5.600 years. The excavation showed evidence of human occupation in Neolithic, Iron Age and 18th/19th century AD. It’s still possible to see the remains of a neolithic work platform (4000 BC) made by forming a retaining wall and then levelling a space with lots of small rocks. About 80 metres from the platform, but high above it, there are two circular stone structures. In the larger structure an almost complete pottery beaker dating the occupation to around 2500 BC. Less than 100 metres from these structures lie the remains of an Iron Age wheelhouse built around the first century BC or AD. Close to the neolithic platform there are the remains of a late eighteenth century blackhouse built on the platform with a byre and a drying house beside it.