Blog Posts

A selection of writing by Georgina Langdale. You can find more on Substack

Can there be a landscape without words?

It is up to us to show our children, our communities, our politicians, our business leaders that nature counts. Because without it we are nothing.

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Gathering - in praise of autumn harvest

All things have their season and rhythms. I am in the garden. It is summer's end, autumn's here and I am harvesting medicinal herbs.

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Filling our Cup of Human Spirit

I am a Spiritual Care Coordinator in a hospice and I keep circling back around to the job title. The term ‘spiritual’ can be a bit loaded for some, and...

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Interview with Thomas Moore on caring for the Soul

Thomas Moore reminds us, "Don't take them where you think they need to be. Take them where they need to be." In this interview we discuss a recent book of...

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What do you do when the Doctor calls - and you don't have a plan

No matter how hard it may be to get a loved one to talk about what they want, while they can, it is easy compared to the agony of having...

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A Woman for our Times - podcast interview

A conversation about how a 12th century mystic can give us so many ways of navigating life in today's world.

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The Gathering of Things

Her hair falling to the floor. Our tears and awe.

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Reconnecting Māori to traditional EOL customs

I spoke with Dr. Tess Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Porou), is lead researcher on Pae Herenga, which was a three year study on traditional Māori end of life care customs...

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