Welcome
About Me:
Hello, I’m Elizabeth. For the past 20 years I’ve worked in international community work, publishing, local politics, and personal development. I’ve been an editor at Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine (the UK’s longest-running environmental magazine), and I’ve led a charity that works around the world. I’m a qualified coach, and a hillwalking guide — I use these skills to support individuals and organisations. I was an elected District Councillor in rural Devon up until May 2023 — my four-year term ended two days before I gave birth to my daughter.
I’m also a writer and have written for publications including Caught by the River, Plough Magazine, Spelt Magazine, Resurgence Magazine and The Ecologist, and was runner up in a National Geographic travel writing competition. I write (and read) about things like re-villaging, books, community, ecology, writing, wonder. I think about how we relate — and could relate — to the Earth and each other. I am working on a book.
I want to write truthfully in murky times, to be ok talking about my soul and heart and what matters, and to help others do the same. I want to think about and reject what diminishes our humanity and instead find and share what makes it sing.
About Field Notes:
Field Notes gathers eclectic-but-connected observations while walking and living, and while working on a book.
Sometimes I’ll share notes from behind the scenes of my writing desk, or dispatches from our westcountry village which act as a lens into the luminous, fragmenting world beyond. Sometimes I’ll share things from history or myth or the sacred. Sometimes I’ll think about community, culture, and who we are underneath it all. Sometimes I’ll write notes off the beaten track, or while travelling, lifting my eyes to the horizon. I will always try to point towards beauty and hope, and to gather shards of light.
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• Occasional extra essays
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