Essays and reflections on presence, plants, and the intelligence of the living world.
Social media is noisy.
Email is quiet.
Which is why I reserve a significant amount of my work, exclusively for my newsletter community.
What is Domei?
Domei means “deep listening.”
It’s a word I made by blending the Gaelic Domhain (deep) and Éist (listen).
It names a way of being with the world that doesn’t try to control, improve, or interpret, but to be in relationship with it.
Noticing how bramble moves through a hedge.
Maybe how your breath shifts under a hawthorn canopy.
Or how a nettle patch holds a thousand stories that no textbook could teach.
What you’ll receive
By subscribing, you’ll get original writing that speaks to a slower way of knowing.
- Essays that begin not in the head, but in the senses
- Stories drawn from years of listening to plants and the land.
- Reflections on how to live with the world, not on top of it
- Language that doesn’t explain nature, but joins it
These are not articles to skim.
They are field notes from another pace of life.
For those who feel the pull.
This is for you if:
- You want to belong more deeply to the world around you
- You’re tired of fast content and louder voices
- You sense that paying close attention is its own kind of intelligence
- You know, somewhere in your bones, that the earth is still speaking, and always has been
No algorithms.
No urgency.
No shouting for your attention.
Just words.
Rooted, quiet, and human.
Offered as a pause in your week.
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