Belonging and longing for home

Ruth HartleyDisplacement, Exile, Home, Identity, Journey, Migration, Race, Refugee2 Comments

Settlers and the unsettled I grew up in a settler community of new homes but the land we took was already the home of African peoples. Many of my school friends’ families were Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe who had nowhere else to go and hoped one day to go to Israel. I quote from a friend Paul M who […]

A journey in France with story books, a donkey and in the company of wolves

Ruth Hartley Storytelling, Books by Ruth Hartley2 Comments

Companionable books and dangerous travels in the wild One of the greatest pleasures that anyone can have is that of making a journey with good companions. Some of the best travelling companions are pages of paper stitched and bound into storybooks – or the wizardry of a Kindle! One of the delights of both travelling and books is discovering that […]