Is Your Mamma a Single Mother or a Scrounger?

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My parents were divorced, and i remember a point in in the mid eighties when a couple of our politicians were talking about single mothers as scroungers and sigs. And for all intentsiv purposes, we lived on the grounds because it was afer for her to do so if she had to get called away in the middle of the night. They taught me how to be just so much at peace outside. A still now that still, my happy place, is being outdoors in a garden, or in o yos an walks in the forest.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of ‘World Of Wonders’ and more.

An uplifting, soulful and inspiring chat with Aimee and Katherine, beginning with a foundation of wonder and never dropping the ball once.

Moving from prose to poetry and immediately feeling boundaries being lifted, Aimee has put out some truly valuable work into the world and this is a perfect opportunity to get to the heart of it all.

As always, it branches out into some rich areas including the juxtaposition of memoir and nature, enforced patriotism as a child, the gradual introduction of cultural reference while growing up, seeing the restrictive attitudes of the 80’s dissolving through generations, examples of harnessing the outdoors and nature from her parents and her geography being shaped by their professions, making your own entertainment, moments of wonder and how children can help trigger them in adults through example, the luxury of time in enjoying the outdoors and so much more to enrich your day.

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