Emma Orbach – update

The Independent offers this “Interview with Earth Prophet Emma Orbach.” The interview was conducted via mail, since Emma has no electricity or modern devices. From the interview:

“Over twenty years ago, Emma Orbach made the decision to leave the modern world behind.

She lives in the Welsh woodlands on her own land, at the base of the Preseli Mountains. 

She grew up in a ‘rundown’ castle and attended Oxford University to study Chinese. However, following her intuitive connection with the Earth, she chose to pursue a life entirely without electricity, modern technology, or furniture. 

For her home, she built a Celtic-style round hut from straw bales and horse manure, with a wooden reciprocal frame roof. Instead of electric lights, ovens and heaters, she has a fireplace. She collects fresh water from a stream, grows her own vegetables, keeps goats for milk and uses horses for transport.” …

URL:  https://www.indiependent.co.uk/an-interview-with-earth-prophet-emma-orbach/

Emily Dickinson’s creative solitude

Scholar Magdalena Ostas has contributed to Psyche, the online magazine, a fine summary of the role of solitude in the creatvity of American poet Emily Dickinson. The article, entitled “Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space’” discusses Dickinson’s psychology and its interplay with words, images, ideas, and aesthetics.

URL: https://psyche.co/ideas/emily-dickinson-and-the-creativity-of-a-solitude-of-space

River Dave – updates

New Hampshire hermit Dave Lidstone is in trouble, again. He had been evicted last August from the wooded acreage where he squatted in a cabin, and during his night in jail the cabin mysteriously burned down. But an outer building, a shed, did survive, and when let out of jail Dave made his way back to the property and took up residence in the shed. He was arrested again last December and was scheduled to appear in court in March but did not. So, he’s in trouble again. The judge issued a warrent for his arrest.

URL: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-03-07/river-dave-a-no-show-in-court-on-trespassing-charge

River Dave trust dissolves: https://news.yahoo.com/river-dave-trust-dissolves-hermit-080700938.html

Nicaragua hermit-sculptor

The United States Agency for Global Media offers a hermit story on its Latin America pages. Headlined: “The hermit who sculpts stones from the moluntains of Nicaragua.” The hermit, Alberto Gutiérrez, is nearly eighty years of age, and lives alone in the southwest of the country on an isolated farm. He has sculpted more than a thousand stone pieces scatttered about his grounds.

URL: https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/en-fotos-el-ermitano-que-esculpe-las-piedras-de-las-montanas-de-nicaragua/6486163.html

Ken Smith – update

STVNews reports that Scotland hermit Ken Smith, subject of the documentary film The Hermit of Treig, surprised attendees by personally appearing at the Glasgow Film Festival that featured the film about him. For an interview with the film director Lizzie MacKenzie (pictured, right), visit https://youtu.be/vSW5HlKl7Y0

URL: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/man-living-as-a-hermit-in-the-scottish-highlands-makes-surprise-appearance-at-glasgow-film-festival