From Peneverdant

4 min read 2023-05-13 16:42:10

Unhealthy Habits and the Role of Monasticism in Healing our Scattered Minds

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been blogging about my problematic relationship with technology as a source of distractions and my unhealthy

3 min read 2023-05-07 13:32:46

In the first two of his essays, ‘Four Questions Concerning the Internet’ (1) Paul Kingsnorth identifies the force behind the Machine

1 min read 2023-05-07 00:47:43

‘The first time I saw an Athonite monk pull a smartphone out from the pocket of his long black robes, I nearly fell over backwards… the pit that

4 min read 2023-04-30 14:31:11

He came into my life around 2012 when I started this blog and joined the strange world of the blogosphere. His presence was invisible at first and it

1 min read 2023-04-30 00:36:28

‘The cause of the third plague… is a powerful magician who carries off your food and your drink and your provisions. Through his magic and

1 min read 2023-04-23 00:15:14

‘This is a point in our lives where we decide (or are forced) to throw the anchor down, to live in one place, have a teacher, dig in.’– Martin

2 min read 2023-04-19 00:59:46

I dream of a wren’s nest on a wooden beam overhanging tidal waters. Then I’m holding it. It’s warm and soft and feathery and filled with baby

5 min read 2023-04-15 20:04:07

This excerpt from my novel-in-progress ‘In the Deep’ moves back to the dreams of the boy (Vindos/Gwyn) as he falls into the Abyss. Here he dreams

2 min read 2023-04-06 18:39:00

If only life was so simple.Like you I try to hide my face and my tearsfor my boy-god and my longing for some kind of miracle.I did not plant you,

3 min read 2023-03-28 13:30:40

Over the last few days I have been taking some time out from writing my novel in progress, In the Deep, after completing the second draft and

3 min read 2023-03-28 12:00:02

In this excerpt from my novel in progress, In the Deep, the boy (Vindos/Gwyn) continues his task of dismissing the ghosts of the dead dragons from

4 min read 2023-03-24 14:19:26

In a recent internet search I found out that the PhD thesis of Angelika Rudiger ‘Y Tylwyth Teg. An Analysis of a Literary Motif’ was published by

3 min read 2023-03-15 21:23:11

The following is an excerpt from my novel in progress In the Deep. It takes place in Annwn ‘the Deep’ in the aftermath of the Battle of the

2 min read 2023-02-25 18:40:40

Who would gowith the boy in the serpent skinsdraped over one shoulder fastened with a bone pinto the world of dead dragons at the bottom of the

2 min read 2023-01-29 13:02:51

As a gift for my dedication as a nun of Annwn my friend Aurora J Stone made me some prayer beads. Crafted in the colours of Annwn from howlite