Field Notes on Inner Weather
The Practice
for people who experience life as ongoing inner movement rather than something settled.I write about inner states as they are actually felt, not through clinical labels or emotional categories, but through sustained attention to what captures awareness over time.Rather than naming emotions, I track shifts in rhythm, texture, clarity, noise, and quiet. The writing is reflective, fragmentary, and ecological. Meaning is allowed to emerge gradually rather than being imposed in advance.
A Note on Form
This page demonstrates the practice it describes. It is written for those whose thinking unfolds like a garden, changing gradually through attention, pruning, and seeding over time.
Field Notes
Field Notes is a weekly reflective piece and public research log shaped from attention to lived experience, often beginning in relationship with place.The writing preserves nuance rather than categorization and treats fluctuation as information rather than pathology.It is an invitation to those working with inner life, creative process, and human–nature relationships to stay with attention over time in their own work.At times, this practice is shared in small, two-hour writing workshops where participants bring their own questions and thinking to the work.Subscribers support sustained, unhurried work and longitudinal observation of inner weather.
About
I work with writing as a practice of attention shaped by ecological thinking and human development. My path has included years in educational publishing and a PhD in applied ecopsychology, alongside ongoing study in eco-arts.I write from the Pacific Northwest.
© 2026 Kathleen Donchak
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