This walk will be led by local author Lev Parikian. He will take us to some of the sites he references in his fantastic new book Light Rains Sometimes Fall and will also read from the book during the walk. See the British year afresh and experience a new way of connecting with nature – through the prism of Japan’s seventy-two ancient micro seasons.

'Across seventy-two short chapters and twelve months, writer and nature lover Lev Parikian charts the changes that each of these ancient microseasons (of a just a few days each) bring to his local patch – garden, streets, park and wild cemetery.

From the birth of spring (risshun) in early February to ‘the greater cold’ (daikan) in late January, Lev draws our eye to the exquisite beauty of the outside world, day-to-day.

Instead of Japan’s lotus blossom, praying mantis and bear, he watches bramble, woodlouse and urban fox; hawthorn, dragonfly and peregrine. But the seasonal rhythms – and the power of nature to reflect and enhance our mood – remain.

By turns reflective, witty and joyous, this is both a nature diary and a revelation of the beauty of the small and subtle changes of the everyday, allowing us to ‘look, look again, look better.'

Meeting place: Outside West Norwood Library and Picturehouse

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General information on Covid-19 etc and on the other Wild Norwood 2021 walks and events programme can be found here: https://www.norwoodforum.org/wild-norwood-2021-walks-and-events