Are You Looking for Your Nature Tribe?
Come on in, you’ve found them!
Hello and a very big welcome to anyone who’s new here. So happy to have you as part of our nature club!
I posted a note on Substack last week asking if people were looking for their nature tribe and I was overwhelmed with the response. If you haven’t already, please go and take a look at the brilliant replies to that note. Turns out quite a lot of us are looking for our people! Substack doesn’t have a nature category - yet - so you have to work a little finder to discover all the great nature writing that can be found on here.
So to continue the conversation and to give it a more permanent home I thought I’d create a monthly post to help highlight and celebrate some of the brilliant seasonal writing that I’ve found on Substack each month. This is the first one and it’s a call for you to add your own seasonal writing to the Comments.
Share your seasonal writing in the Comments
If you’ve written something this month that you’d class as nature writing or seasonal writing, please post a link to it in the comments so we can all find it and follow you.
If you’re a writer you can use this post to share your work and connect with others. And if you’re a reader, this comment section will hopefully become a treasure trove of beautiful seasonal reading for you to discover and enjoy.
And by ‘seasonal writing’ I mean any kind of writing that encompasses the natural world and the changing seasons. Food writers, gardeners, scientists, artists, wanderers, daydreamers, established writers, brand new writers. This is a broad and wonderful category. You are all welcome and I want to hear from you all.
I’ll start by linking below to a few posts I’ve really enjoyed over the past month - all of which seem uniquely ‘August’ in their own way. Then you add your own seasonal writing in the Comments below.
Let’s go!
Here are a few of my favourite pieces from this month:
Sea Shells and Sunshine by Julia Crossland
Time Away Will Do That by Rachel Shenk
Back to school haircuts, a recipe for an Instagarden, and a Zoom by Jo Thompson
Exquisite endings and burnished beginnings of late summer by Lyndsay Kaldor
And I’ve also moved this post of mine → Happy Blackberry Season ← out from the behind the paywall so it’s free for anyone to read if you fancy it (I sent it to paid subscribers last week and I think it has a late summer flavour.)
Look forward to reading your seasonal writing below!
Vicky
I wrote earlier in the month about my own journey back to nature. The last 15 years have brought a realisation that my relationship with the outdoors is essential and non-negotiable. It grounds me, and it roots me in something greater. These are all things I unknowingly felt and experienced as a child, but which were sapped out of me in adulthood 🌿
https://alifemorecreative.substack.com/p/reflections-on-a-simple-past-05
Victoria. I am elated you are continuing to encourage finding our nature tribe. As I commented on your note, my writing doesn’t have a prime focus on nature, my love for nature and the outdoors is woven throughout. I went to Iceland recently and as you can imagine, the landscape of the country was awe-inspiring. I often found myself speechless. But the main highlight for me was, well…the puffins. I hope you enjoy my little story of my puffin connection.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlenealofs/p/i-see-you-arctic-puffin?r=p8vx8&utm_medium=ios