Summer Solstice at Kingcombe

At the weekend, I was lucky to be celebrating the solstice with fellow students from the MA Creative Writing (online) at AUB, our Course Leader, Dr Kevan Manwaring, and co-host, Dr Helen Moore.

Our cohort... and Pablo!

While there, we paid particular thought to the current module: Writing in the Anthropocene, not an easy subject matter, given the mess we in the global minirity have made - and we all have a carbon footprint, so this is just a case of acknowledgment. But, given the seriousness of these times, the need for stories that change the world has never been greater.

I am still reflecting on the time spent and I hope to channel the energies of these complex feelings into my next assignment, but I leave this piece with the words of Ursula Le Guin as an intentional echo and as a way to articulate what I am currently unable to:

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.