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For millennia we have looked to the sun to provide us with light, food and warmth. Yet, in our attempts to increase the productivity of each hour, we have skewed our days and stretched them through the use of candles, electricity and LED bulbs, our faces glowing in the unnatural light of screens and electronic devices.
Within the pages of this book lies the chance to reconnect with our primal life force through folklore, exploration of ancient cultures, myths, legends and tales of our past. By understanding the power of our ancient star through the wisdom of those who walked this land before us, we can hope to unplug ourselves from the synthetic glow that surrounds our lives and reconnect with the Stories of the Sun.
13th June, 2024 in Folklore, Natural World
To mark the Summer solstice join Dawn Nelson author of Stories of the Sun as she watches the sunrise… Come with me to a hillside where the trees face east and if you stand with them, you can watch the sunrise. Here the twilight lingers and the dew on the grass glistens in the g…
10th January, 2022 in Natural World
Author Dawn Nelson reflects on 2021 as we go into the New Year and invites us to ‘rewild’ and reconnect with nature. I was brought up on a healthy diet of bird watching, veg growing and pond dipping. I wrote my first story when I was six. We lived in London at the time, a short w…
2nd October, 2019 in Folklore
What makes a good story? In many collected folk stories, for example ghost stories, the story is that something simply happens somewhere… and that is it. An event is described. A white figure appeared. It might happen again. It has a beginning and middle and a full stop. But ther…
21st April, 2017 in Folklore
In honour of Earth Day, let us tell you a story. One that concerns the past and the present and tells of a possible future where stories save the day by reconnecting people and communities to the world around them and to what it means to live a good life on planet Earth. Once upo…
