Myth & Moor: Autumn in Chagford

I Shall Go Into a Hare....

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Autumn in Chagford

Saturday, October 06, 2018

Sheep

Apples

Bench

The poem in picture captions is from Two Moons by Mary Oliver (Little, Brown & Co., 1972); all rights reserved by the author.

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notes from a Dartmoor studio
on folklore, fairy tales, fantasy,
mythic arts & mythic living

by Terri Windling

"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion."
- Barry Lopez

Further Reading:

on folklore & fairy tales

on mythic fiction & art

on the creative process

mythic resources

dartmoor mythic arts

the modern fairies project

my book website

my art website

the hound

"Storytellers ought not to be too tame. They ought to be
wild creatures who function adequately in society. They are best in disguise. If they lose all their wildness, they cannot
give us the truest joys."

- Ben Okri

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so here are the reasons why
I've taken the leap.

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"It is Story that heals us, that shapeshifts us, that saves us."

- Sylvia V. Linsteadt

Paintings credits (top to bottom):
H.J. Ford, Warwick Goble,
Charles Robinson, Adrienne Ségur
Marianne Stokes, Alan Lee,
Brian Froud & Arthur Rackham.
Drawings by Terri Winding
& Arthur Rackham.