Rachel@LandOfChalk ❄️

Poetry and countryside. Sharing creativity inspired by the wild outside.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Say hello to Jonathan he was born in 1832 & is 192 years old

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

These jewel-like curiosities are toothworts (genus Lathraea) from around the world. They lack leaves and chlorophyll, and steal their food from the roots of forest trees. I'm proud that my PhD student, Seb Hatt, has just written the first monograph of these extraordinary plants, which we've published in the journal Phytotaxa.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Robert Frost 🖎

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

I love this sentiment.

[Laura Makabresku @KamilaKansy]

The Hope

[Tuhin (तुहिन/তুহিন) @tuhintranslates]

Wendell Berry.

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

The shortest walk ever

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”

[Luke Sherlock @lukejsherlock]

A few weeks ago we stayed in this 15th and 16th century cottage. This is what we found 🧵:

[Peege @bloodsigns]

You knew that this Ellen Bass was going to return …from Mules of Love 😴😴😴

[Rachel@LandOfChalk ❄️ @Land_of_Chalk]

@CarolineBirdUK Effortless. Beautiful.

[Caroline Bird @CarolineBirdUK]

‘Then he lay down
to sleep like a snow-covered road’

- Li-Young Lee

[Peege @bloodsigns]

Jane Hirshfield • The Asking

For me, this is the hardest lesson of life — it goes out to everything equally … all the heavens and hells

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

My new favorite word: sonder.

It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.

Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

[Anne @AnneKinnunen1]

November blues

[Rachel@LandOfChalk ❄️ @Land_of_Chalk]

@mark_lj Simply magical

[Pascale Rentsch RSW @PascaleRentsch]

Calm Sea, looking towards North Berwick.
58x 90cm

#painting #sea #calm #enpleinair

[The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine]

Submissions to this year's Moth Poetry Prize – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem – are now open.

There's €11,000 up for grabs if your poem catches the eye of this year's judge, Fiona Benson!

Closing 31 December.
🌟 https://t.co/d3tZW4E0wc