I’m Liz Pearson Mann. I write about sustainable and resourceful ways of living: ways to be more rooted in landscape, traditional culture and crafted goods produced with natural materials.
For many years I’ve worked in archaeology – I’m a cross between an archaeologist and ecologist. It’s with this knowledge that I draw you into stories about people who have worked closely with the land and with natural materials. They have provided themselves with food, clothing, and shelter, and their ways have lessons for us all.
Reading Time: 14minutesWhat if I were to tell you that plagues, through time, were caused by comets and meteor strikes? You’d probably want to gently whisper about black rats, fleas and bacteria. And, suggest that ideas associating plagues with comets were the fanciful fears of prehistoric ancient peoples and medieval peasants. Yet, it appears that our ancestors’ […]
Reading Time: 13minutesWhat if we were to return to old ideas about health and disease? Would we find ourselves in a better place? If we wind back the clock, we’d be less concerned about contagion, germs and variants. We’d be more concerned, instead, with our environment, the weather, atmosphere, poisons we ingest, and our state of mind. […]
Reading Time: 12minutesImagine a world where there is just one stage; one show to see and listen to. The world would be not only a stagnant place, but would limit our perspectives of the world. And, what of the owners of the stage (the platform) and the stage show? Who are they? How would we have ended […]
