Ceri Thomas

Blossoms - Gary youtu.be/C5UWge0rP-U?si… via @YouTube

The music video for ‘Gary’ is out now as well! We directed this video ourselves with a little help from some friends. youtu.be/C5UWge0rP-U?si…

Delighted to announce our 5th studio album ‘Gary’ is out Friday 20th September. You can pre-order signed album bundles and the title track is out now! blossoms.orcd.co/gary The heart of this record is us 5 recording live in a room for the first time in years. Blossoms x

“Against this cosmic background the lifespan of a particular plant or animal appears, not as drama complete in itself, but only as a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change.” An almost unbearably beautiful read from Rachel Carson themarginalian.org/2017/02/28/und…

Tangerine Meditation – Thich Nhat Hanh's simple, profound practice for magnifying your capacity for joy themarginalian.org/2021/04/07/tan…

"The object in all of our contemplative disciplines is silence... in order for you to perceive something other than yourself... Poetry is the verbal art-form by which we can actually create silence." David Whyte on poetry as contemplative practice themarginalian.org/2021/04/30/dav…

“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.” Bruce Lee's notes to himself about willpower, confidence, and the strength of emotion themarginalian.org/2016/08/01/bru…

"The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge." Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life themarginalian.org/2016/01/19/sea…

Between science and magic – how hummingbirds hover at the edge of the possible themarginalian.org/2021/05/07/sy-…

Music and the universe themarginalian.org/2022/08/15/ala…

"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state." Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/pol…

Beloved Dog – a tender illustrated love letter to our furry best friends themarginalian.org/2015/10/29/bel…

“For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars—pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time.” On Henry Beston's birthday, his beautiful love letter to night themarginalian.org/2015/06/04/hen…

“A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature.” Henry Beston, born on this day in 1888, on whimsicality and the limits of knowledge themarginalian.org/2015/12/14/hen…

For World Coral Reef Awareness Day today, stunning 19th-century illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of the Great Barrier Reef – one of Earth's most delicate and vibrant ecosystems themarginalian.org/2020/05/11/wil…

How emotions are made – fascinating read themarginalian.org/2024/02/23/how…

Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819, on what makes a great person and what wisdom really means themarginalian.org/2020/11/12/wal…

On Whitman's birthday, one of his loveliest poems animated themarginalian.org/2018/11/13/wal…

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” On Whitman's birthday, hear composer Caroline Shaw's breathtaking music based on his poetry and inspired by the Golden Record themarginalian.org/2022/08/07/car…

How to keep criticism from sinking your soul – on Whitman's birthday, his hard-won lesson (from Emerson) on the discipline of creative confidence themarginalian.org/2019/01/03/whi…