Harry | August 1, 2011
A Gentle Place was not set up to be a vegan blog. There are already plenty of those out there. They inspire me, educate me, challenge me, support me, nourish me - just last night we had guests over for dinner: Moroccan vegan meal prepared by Sue and Vegan Black Bean Brownies prepared by your [...]
Category: Animals & us, Community, Nature |
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Tags: Choices, Gentle, Vegan
Harry | February 7, 2011
Today is Plato’s birthday. We would have wished him by our bedside as we awoke but today it had to be down along the river where has a prime spot overlooking his favourite jigsaw puzzle piece of Nature. When I spent time with him this morning we spoke about death, his death, for the first [...]
Category: Animals & us, Nature |
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Tags: Children, Gentle, Learning, Parenthood, Slugs, Spiders, Teaching
Harry | November 27, 2010
Have you ever read a book that you became so emotionally engrossed in that you felt you could not tolerate any ending other than the one you’d been etching into your grey matter since shortly after turning the first page? One that you would have recommended highly if it ended your way but dispatched to [...]
Category: Nature |
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Tags: Babies, Cheese, Dairy, Goats, Kids, Milk
Harry | October 13, 2010
Apologies to Jonathan Balcombe – I started reading Second Nature yesterday, raced through the first half but, like Pleasurable Kingdom, will probably not finish it. It’s not that I don’t enjoy your books Mr Balcombe (you can rest assured I’ll buy your next one), it’s just that, how do I say this without sounding disrespectful? [...]
Category: Animals & us, Nature |
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Tags: Bats, Cows, Donkeys, Emotions, Goats, Grief, Horses, Peacocks, Pigs, Ravens, Science, Seagulls
Harry | September 27, 2010
Like most bloggers potential posts swirl around in my head on a regular basis but need a spark of some sort to get me to transfer them from my grey matter through the keyboard to cyberspace. The spark for this post was provided by The Voracious Vegan (aka Tasha), whose latest post was on the [...]
Category: Animals & us, Nature |
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Tags: Ahimsa, Animal rights, Choices, Feral cats, Fossil fuels, Hydro energy, Intent, Plants, Solar energy, Trees, Vegan, Wildlife, Wind energy
Harry | August 28, 2010
Prince Edward has a full tail again, and his and son Luka’s early morning calls for their mates have become more urgent. A reminder that Spring is almost upon us. With it we’ll get warmer days, shorter nights, apple blossoms, Tweet
Category: Animals & us, Nature |
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Tags: Animal advocacy, Chickens, Cows, Ducks, Horses, Mothers, Neighbours, Seasons, Steers
Harry | August 27, 2010
Working in the health profession puts me in touch with a huge array of people whose ages are by necessity always prominently displayed on the screen, right after their names. And not uncommonly I meet people whose appearance is discordant with their chronological age. Whenever that discord is great I usually ask, “How old do [...]
Category: Nature |
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Tags: Age, Ageing, Youth
Harry | August 15, 2010
Living in a 120 year old cottage on the bank of a major river was always going to be filled with some tense moments. Wednesday night was one of those. More than 150mm of torrential rain in just 36 hours. Over 100mm in less than 12. The river rose … and rapidly so. After ensuring [...]
Category: Nature |
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Tags: Community, Flood, Neighbours, River