Category Archives: Questions by the Dark Mountain
Sheep and unicorns?
Yes. That’s one of my deeper learnings of the Uncivilisation festival. In a slow and quiet and rolling conversation after most people had gone home, the mythology of sheep and unicorns really gave me something to wrap my head around. … Continue reading
What stories should we tell?
The world is made of stories. Everything has a way of living. A life that it lives and a path that it walks. The universe is a story, beginning, middle and end. And everything in it has a story, woven … Continue reading
Is there anything we all know the words to?
It’s nostalgic idealism in some ways, and I’m not sure how useful it is, but it’s still sad that when you have fifteen largely strangers around a campfire, it’s hard to find a song that everyone knows. We seem to … Continue reading
What kind of ancestors will we be?
There’s a chain of people linking us back to a time where we were simpler animals. It’s impossible to know what it felt like, because our brains will have been different then. Feeling will have been different. But that was … Continue reading
