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The notebook of a globally feral author finding balance through connection with nature, ancestral skills, and different cultures. Words and kindness.

By Alexander M Crow

The Balance of Hope

Sep 10, 2025 • Alexander M Crow

Cercal, Portugal. May 2020.

Northern/Central Portugal. January, 2020.

A Celebration of Scent: 49 Favourites

A while ago, back in March, Sarah Crowder shared a list she’d crafted about 41 of her favourite smells.

Fiction

Some Midwinter Gifts

Six free stories for you.

Dec 21, 2025 • Alexander M Crow

My Fiction: Past, Present, Future

At some point last year, more people began to read the fiction I share here than the other pieces.

Dancing With Death

Introduction and Navigation

Oct 30, 2024 • Alexander M Crow

Travel

Cercal, Portugal. February, 2021.

Witness Notes 15

Cercal, Portugal, January, 2021 and Rendall, Orkney, April, 2016

Witness Notes 14

Isère, France. December, 2020.

Witness Notes 13

Ancestral, Wild Empowerment

Landscape As Personal Tapestry

An AWE Guest Walk by Lydia Crow

Feb 1, 2025 • Alexander M Crow and Lydia Crow

The Outnature: Mental Health Awareness

A Very Personal Perspective

May 14, 2024 • Alexander M Crow

Seasons of Reflection: A Journey Through Western Tennessee’s Natural Tapestry

An AWE 'Let's Take a Walk' Guest Post

Apr 25, 2024 • Alexander M Crow and Matthew Long

A Fall In Time

A Fall In Time: Week Twelve

30th of November to the 1st of December, 2010

Dec 5, 2025 • Alexander M Crow

A Fall In Time: Week Eleven

23rd to the 29th of November, 2010

Nov 28, 2025 • Alexander M Crow

A Fall In Time: Week Ten

16th to the 22nd of November, 2010

Nov 21, 2025 • Alexander M Crow

Edges and Entries

So Many Languages

No on-topic Edges & Entries today—no official Underworld post, at least (you can, however, present an argument for this being either a prologue for a…

I'll Dig With It

We dig down to find things, to hide others and ourselves, to discover faster ways to cross space, to build, to trap, to plant, to harvest.

Delve

Welcome back to Edges and Entries, where I share discussion of those spaces and states between worlds, so far introducing some of my thoughts on doors…

The Crow's Nest

The notebook of a globally feral author finding balance through connection with nature, ancestral skills, and different cultures. Words and kindness.