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  1. The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
    That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

    Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

    What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodonthistleandmoss.com/subscribe?u
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  2. The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
    That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

    Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

    What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodonthistleandmoss.com/subscribe?u
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  3. Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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  4. Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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  5. And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
    What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
    #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
    Today's full issue → thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-
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  6. And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
    What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
    #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
    Today's full issue → thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-
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  7. Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
    A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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  8. Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
    A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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  9. Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

    (My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

    #Kernewek
    #cymraeg
    #brezhoneg
    #gaelg
    #gaidhlig
    #gaeilge

  10. Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

    (My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

    #Kernewek
    #cymraeg
    #brezhoneg
    #gaelg
    #gaidhlig
    #gaeilge

  11. Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

    (My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

    #Kernewek
    #cymraeg
    #brezhoneg
    #gaelg
    #gaidhlig
    #gaeilge

  12. Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

    (My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

    #Kernewek
    #cymraeg
    #brezhoneg
    #gaelg
    #gaidhlig
    #gaeilge

  13. Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

    (My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

    #Kernewek
    #cymraeg
    #brezhoneg
    #gaelg
    #gaidhlig
    #gaeilge

  14. An Lanntair: Join children’s author Louisa MacDougall to celebrate her new book The Ugly Puffling and other stories. There will be story time, crafts and wildlife-themed games for primary-aged children. Pop in at any time between 12.30 and 2.30pm
    The post lanntair.com/events/event/the- appeared first on lanntair.com.

    Source: lanntair.com/events/event/the-

    #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

  15. An Lanntair: In a special edition of our monthly social gathering for all creative islanders, we’re setting up a big screen to share two films by island artists, Jill Smith and the late Ron Coleman.
    This is a limited capacity event so book early!
    An Avebury Journey by Jill Smith
    A pioneering performance artist, Jill Smith’s work was recently recognised by the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, who commissioned her for a year-long project, Zodiac Journey (in collaboration with photographer Mhairi Law) for the gallery’s 50th anniversary. An Avebury Journey, filmed on Super 8 in the early 1980s, marked the beginning of her transition from Jill Bruce, creative partner and wife of artist Bruce Lacey, to creating work on her own as Jill Smith. Unfinished at the time, the silent footage has now been edited by Izzy McEvoy and Jill Smith, and will be screened in public for the first time tonight, accompanied by an improvised live score by Andrew Eaton Lewis and Ralph Tonge.
    Caught in this Moment of Time
    Adapted from Ron Coleman’s play which toured Scotland, this short film directed by Ian Bustard is Ron’s final piece of work, and part of his remarkable legacy. Ron was a pioneering mental health and dementia activist who later became a playwright and poet. Caught in this Moment of Time dramatises his experiences as a writer with dementia, and his relationship with his AI home help, Alexa. In his final performance, Ron plays…

    Source: lanntair.com/events/event/arti

    #Gàidhlig #Gaelic

  16. The question I asked in today's issue, and I mean it as a real one: what have you actually turned your face toward this week, and what did it cost you to keep looking? I'm answering every one of these in the comments under the piece.

    #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Lùnastal #Blessing #Solidarity #QueerNews #Seasons

    thistleandmoss.com/p/what-surv
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  17. The goldenrod does not check the roll call, and tonight neither do you. Carry what's yours.

    Set the rest down at the door like muddy boots — because it is muddy, and it isn't yours, and you've been hauling it up the stairs all week like a martyr with a subscription.

    #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Lùnastal #Blessing #Solidarity #QueerNews #Seasons

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  18. Tha sinn fhathast an seo, agus tha an talamh a' cuimhneachadh — we are still here, and the earth remembers.

    Put one hand flat on the nearest solid thing. Table, wall, tree, floor. Leave it there for one whole breath before you read another headline.

    The empire can schedule its shabby little votes for four in the morning if it wants. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Lùnastal #Blessing #Solidarity #QueerNews #Seasons

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  19. An Lanntair: Songwriters Circle is our monthly gathering for island songwriters, to try out ideas on each other with no pressure, no expectations, an no audience except a group of kindred spirits who can offer encouragement and ideas.
    It’s a chance to share unfinished songs, get feedback, and find people to collaborate with. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced musician, new members are always welcome!
    The post lanntair.com/events/event/song appeared first on lanntair.com.

    Source: lanntair.com/events/event/song

    #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

  20. I enjoyed this program presented by Michael Rosen. Someone whose writing and broadcasting I have long enjoyed. He is not a #Gaelic speaker (although Roddy Maclean who takes a prominent role in the discussion is) but for I presume mainly speakers of English it is great.

    Bruidhinn Gàidhlig. Bruidhinn mu dheidhinn na Gàidhlig.

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0030n9z

    #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #language #Scotland #bbc

  21. nuair a tha mi fhìn nam sheasamh
    aig ceann Loch an Dala
    ’s mi a’ coimhead thar cuain geur
    a’ deàrrsadh ’s a’ deàlradh
    fo ghrian na sìorraidheachd
    chan fhaic mi sgath dhen ghlasadh cheilteach…

    —Iain S. Mac a’ Phearsain, “ceann Loch an Dala”
    published in Friends & Kangaroos: New Writing Scotland 17

    #Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Islay

  22. An Lanntair: “Suddenly I understood how the sound of the dance can be a part of the music.”
    Join fiddle player Amy Geddes for a workshop where we’ll learn tunes to play for stepdance and explore the technique of playing for this percussive dance. As well as separate sessions for musicians and dancers, we will spend time learning together, creating a deeper understanding of how the dance is part of the music. A joyful exploration of how to “talk” to each other with our instruments and feet. Suitable for intermediate upwards musicians who can play dance tunes at a steady tempo; all instruments that can play in standard keys.
    The post lanntair.com/events/event/play appeared first on lanntair.com.

    Source: lanntair.com/events/event/play

    #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

  23. High in tannins: they bind iron and blunt oral medications, so leave two hours either side of anything you take on a schedule. Skip it in pregnancy or if you're anemic. And be certain of your identification — alder is not buckthorn, and buckthorn is a violent purgative. If you're eighty percent sure about the tree, buy the bark instead. #Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig

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  24. Grey alder — Alnus incana, feàrna. For the throat that's been screaming.
    Dried inner bark only, aged several months, never fresh — fresh bark will make you vomit, which is exactly why the old preparation insists on the drying. One teaspoon to a cup, simmered ten minutes, strained, cooled to warm. Gargle and spit. Good as an external wash on weepy skin and foot soaks.
    #Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
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  25. The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
    That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

    Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

    What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodonthistleandmoss.com/subscribe?u
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  26. Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
    #Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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  27. NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
    Glasgow launch
    8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book

    Celebrate the latest issue of NEW WRITING SCOTLAND with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

    waterstones.com/events/new-wri

    #Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #newwriting #booklaunch #Glasgow

  28. The tulip poplars have begun dropping yellow leaves in August. Not autumn — thirst. The ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it, ahead of schedule, the way anything does when the season asks too much.

    Kudzu in bloom on every roadside, smelling absurdly of grape soda. Cicada shells still gripping the pine bark where the bodies climbed out.

    #Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas
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  29. An talamh fo do chasan — the earth beneath your feet. It hasn't gone anywhere.
    What has turned where you are?

    #Goldenrod #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Phenology #DogDays #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Gàidhlig #Seasonal #Cicadas ↳ reply: Today's issue → twp.ai/4huef6
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  30. Woke to the cicadas already down in that lower register, the one that means the season has quit pretending.
    Goldenrod along every ditch from here to the county line. Tomatoes splitting themselves open from drinking too fast. Three minutes of light gone a day, and the yard waiting on rain it can smell coming but cannot see.
    #Goldenrod #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Phenology #DogDays #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Gàidhlig #Seasonal #Cicadas

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  31. “Where are our roots? How do we make ourselves at home? How does the stranger come to feel at home? Maybe we need to remind ourselves of what a family is, what it could be, and what it stands for, to begin to make sense of the wider world.”

    Read the editors’ introduction to NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44:

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #NewWriting #shortstories #shortfiction #poetry #poems #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #writingcommunity

  32. NAMING THE SNAKES
    New Writing Scotland 44
    Ed. by Chris Powici, Allan Radcliffe & Anna C. Frater

    The best new short fiction & poetry from forty-three writers who are Scottish by birth, residence, or inclination, writing in English, Gaelic, & Scots. Available for preorder now from all good bookshops! (And the evil one too.)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #NewWriting #shortstories #shortfiction #poetry #poems #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #writingcommunity

  33. Stay with your people. Stay alive. Stay tender.

    The blessing that closes today's Gathering. Three imperatives, no resolution asked of you tonight — only to go on, the way the river goes on past the courthouse and the kitchen, not knowing the sea, not needing to.

    #ScottishGaelic #Gàidhlig #Blessing #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #QueerSpirituality #Community #Tender #Resist #Solidarity #Poetry

    ↳ The whole of it → twp.ai/4hrol5

  34. Gabh an dà rud leat — take both with you.

    The fire and the cool water. The land holds drought and river in the same body and asks no one's leave. You carry rage and you carry tenderness, and today you do not have to choose.

    #ScottishGaelic #Gaidhlig #Druid #EarthBased #Blessing #Pride #QueerSpirituality #Mindfulness #Pagan #Witchcraft #Poetry #Solidarity

  35. Tiugainn. Pull up a chair.

    Gum bi do chuid uallaich aotrom agus do fhreumhan domhain — may your burdens be light and your roots deep.

    The earth does not ask the river where it's going. She who holds simply sends it forward, and trusts the sea to know its own.

    #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #Druidry #Pagan #EarthBased #Blessing #QueerSpirituality #CelticPaganism #SlowMorning #Witchcraft #Animism
    twp.ai/4hrgVX

  36. Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach,
    mi fhèin is m’ athair,
    is lìonadh sinn an eathar le
    peilichean de rionnach, liutha,
    is dheigheadh sinn timcheall a’ bhaile
    gu gach nàbaidh gus am biodh na peilichean falamh…

    —Iain MacRath, “Dheigheadh sinn a dh’iasgach”
    published in Don’t. Even. Ask. Too. Hot.: New Writing Scotland 42 (ASL, 2024)

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #fathers #FathersDay

  37. Cha leig thu leas a ghiùlan fad an latha — you do not have to carry it all day.
    Set the stone down. Pick it up tomorrow if you must. But not now, not all of it, not while the fireflies are writing their green semaphore that means only here, here, still here.

    #Gaelic #ScotsGaelic #Gàidhlig #Blessing #Mindfulness #Grounding #Druid #EarthBased #SelfCare #Rest #Stillness #QueerSpirituality
    twp.ai/4hrcY4

  38. BBC Alba: Fras | Seirm 2026 | BBC ALBA

    Fras bho Seirm 2026 air BBC ALBA.
    Fras from Seirm 2026 on BBC ALBA.

    00:01 Nice Room
    03:12 Clarifications
    08:16 Bertie’s
    13:44 Belly Jigs
    18:26 Techno Jonny’s
    22:55 10 Second Street

    #CelticConnections2026 #BBCiPlayer #BBCALBA

    Làrach a ' phrògraim 👉 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002scfz

    Fo-sgrìobh gu BBC ALBA agus brùth air a' 🔔 👉 bit.ly/BBCALBAsubscribe
    Faic seo agus barrachd air BBC iPlayer 👉 bbc.co.uk/tv/bbcalba

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    Lean sinn air sòisealtan eile 🔍
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    Coimhead air: youtube.com/watch?v=X-RP7aIGljs

    #Gaelic #Gàidhlig

  39. Còisir Chuèir […] is set to bring colour to traditional Gaelic music. The choir, led by composer & choir leader Josie Duncan and backed by Glasgow Life, is set to open its doors next month (3 February) to LGBTQ+ people of all musical abilities #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Gèidheil #Cuèir #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT

    LGBTQ+ choir announced to laun...

  40. An Gèidheal Ùr: Cuairt-litir # 69

    Geàrr-chunntas sgrìobhte de naidheachdan LGDTCEN+ ionadail, nàiseanta ‘s bho air feadh an t-saoghail.

    • Murt ann an Lunnainn/Bristol;
    • Droch-bheul ann am Birmingham;
    • Casg air teiripe iompachaidh;
    • J.D. Vance;
    • Sgoiltean ann an California air an casg bho innse do phàrantan mu oileanaich tar-ghnèitheach;
    • Feise cho-sheòrsach air a chasg ann am Buirciona Faso.

    angeidhealur.scot/2024-07-21-c

    #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Gèidheil #Gàidhlig #Gaelic @lgbtqia @gaidhlig

  41. GCN: Ireland’s first Gaeltacht for LGBTQ+ adults launches this summer

    Taking place this August, the week-long summer camp has been designed for all levels of LGBTQ+ learners of Irish.

    gcn.ie/irelands-first-lgbtq-ga

    #Gaeilge #Irish #Gaylgeoirí #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Gèidheil #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #LADTAIÉ #LADTA #LADT #LGDTCEN #LGDTC #LGDT #MastoDaoine @lgbtqia @gaeilge @gaidhlig