Recent screenshot from my Pinterest page, www.pinterest.com/peterfinch/
I have spent quite
some hours recently - through the bone-chilling weather outside, toasty by the
wood-stove inside - delving into some themes that fascinate and inspire me. The
media by which I have made these explorations are two-fold: books in print and
Pinterest. That may sound like going from the sublime to the ridiculous, but
both channels have been highly rewarding.
In books, I have been
taking in There is a Season by
Patrick Lane, The Old Ways by Robert
Macfarlane, The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King, Secrets of the Soil by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Grass, The Forgiveness of Nature by
Charles Walters, The Real Crash by
Peter D. Schiff, The Farm as Ecosystem
by Jerry Brunetti, Flight Behavior by
Barbara Kingsolver, earth works by
Scott Russell Sanders, An Epidemic of
Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. I have been thoroughly captivated by
them all.
On Pinterest, I have
developed several boards of interest - Magical
Places, Magical Foods, Magical Plants, Health Naturally, Art & Sculpture,
Home is Where the Heart is, Green Heroes. I like the format of Pinterest;
it draws the viewer in via the image, following up by opening worlds of words, detailed
analysis and so deeper meaning through web links.
You can find boards
from my Pinterest page that are pertinent to this blog here:
