Sylvia Shawcross So I’m looking at the watermelon and thinking about the world we live in. It’s one of those small happy watermelons all round and conveniently small. It...

Sylvia Shawcross The foolish-hearted people exist in this world more than we really know. The foolish-hearted people do foolish-hearted things because their heart has its own language and sense...

Sylvia Shawcross Come with me now down this path. It is a path soft with the fallen frailties of the forest, rusted leaves and bits of seeds and twisted...

Sylvia Shawcross We are human beings. We are brilliant, superior adaptive creatures who have roamed about the planet for a good long time; eating, drinking and evolving to the...

Sylvia Shawcross Well its enough to drive you around the bend and put bubbles in your veins trying to understand the world as it is unfolding. Watching Mattias Desmet...

Sylvia Shawcross In a stream of consciousness world there are no paddles for your boat. There will come a time when you’re sitting in a smoke-filled place from the...

Sylvia Shawcross Well it is possible to be optimistic about the future really. I know that’s a ridiculous statement but truly, if we look at the span of time...

Sylvia Shawcross I hesitated to write this piece for two reasons: I’m not a member of the 2SLGBTQI* community and therefore do not know the experience and most importantly...

Sylvia Shawcross It is the first time the crows did not come in the morning. Under the red sun and yellow skies. In the forty years I have been...

Sylvia Shawcross I am living out my days in what once was a forested community but now a growing suburbia of machines and city noise. It is and was...

Sylvia Shawcross Waking up to the red sun in the morning when sailors take warning is a miracle nevertheless. The world turns as it always has. Early in June...

Sylvia shawcross So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and...

Sylvia Shawcross So we’re having a Dogwood Spring some would say here in this part of the world. Early in the morning the ground frosts the edges of leaves...

Sylvia Shawcross I understand Easter Island now. Those heads and bodies huge on the horizon of the islands staring magnificently out to the world as if to say “I...

Sylvia Shawcross Some things keep us up at night such as the horrifying thought that if they eliminate all this carbon stuff, 20,000 years from now they won’t be...

Sylvia Shawcross We’re not divided enough. Surely there are more things for us to fight each other over? We’ve got vaccines, gender, wars, race, food, ageism, mathematics, territories, immigration,...

Sylvia Shawcross Here in the northern hemisphere winter mourns its way to spring with tears that sometimes freeze on the ground and crystallize on the white snow still high...

Sylvia Shawcross Some days I convince myself that nothing is actually happening and all we have is a whole bunch of people convincing us that things are happening. I...

Sylvia Shawcross Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally brings us to the little understood but seriously important Philaenus spumarius aka the meadow spittlebug or...

Sylvia shawcross This was a very difficult opinion to write because there are many people I love who have been vaccinated and I don’t want to be the one...