Environmental Storytelling ~ with Gordon "Creeping Toad" MacLellan

Episode 19: July 10, 2025 - On this full "buck" moon, Tom talks with environmental storyteller, poet and artist, Gordon "Creeping Toad" MacLellan.Tonight we have a blether about these things and more ...  • Why we need to react creatively to the world around us   • Finding the right stories to tell with heart   • Exploring stories of the natural world and its features   • Finding inspiration from the Scottish landscape  • The joy of writing poetry  • Lending a helping hand with our non-human neighbors, the wee hoppy people, via the toad bus  • Gordon shares a story told to him by a nine-year-old boy  • Working with children and imagination  • Who owns the selkie stories, anyway?  • The violence inherent in old tales  • Keeping vigil with the unknown dead  • Tom tells the true story of Betty Corrigal, Hoy  • The story of the hundred-handed giants  • Similarities between the story of Odysseus and an Orkney finfolk tale  • A story-swap between two Scottish storytellers  • Ragna, the AI Viking woman at Orkney Museum ... and what's she got to do with Tom?  • Raven tales through different cultures  • About the London Creativity ConferenceSupport Orkneyology on Ko-fi one-time or regular drams: https://ko-fi.com/orkneyologyTom Muir's Tales in the Landscape Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tales-in-the-landscapeOrkneyology shop: https://shop.orkneyology.com/Orkneyology on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQSp7iqejatLV9g5OAF7FAMore from Gordon MacLellan: https://creepingtoad.com/https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2024/05/witches-snow-and-wonderful-creatures.htmlhttps://giftsfromcrows.bandcamp.com/album/whisper-along-the-windhttps://www.creativityconference.is/gordon-maclellan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.