Storytelling, guides & resources gathered along the (Wild Atlantic) Way.
Storytelling
Novels and memoirs crafted along the edge of the Atlantic.
INTO WORDS: In the summer of 1988, two children meet without a language between them, and build one anyway.A bookshop in Brooklyn. An onsen at the edge of a Japanese town. For years, letters cross between them, carrying what can be said. Silence carries the rest. Around the two of them stand lives already built, waiting to be lived in. Some of what comes is loss. Some of it is the slow discovery of their own shape. And the rest is the whole of it, finding its way into words.Spanning Brooklyn and Japan 1988 into the new century, Into Words is a novel of friendship, family, grief, and the long work of finding a voice, told in spare, luminous prose for readers of quiet literary fiction.
THE ARCHITECT: Some losses work on you quietly for decades before you understand what they took.The Architect is a memoir written in real time, from inside a life being rebuilt on the edge of the Irish countryside. A story of grief and inheritance, of single motherhood and chosen family, of a woman who spent her whole life building homes, in paper, in floor plans, in fields, in other people, and what she finally came to understand about why.For anyone who has ever had to begin again before they were ready.
Considering Ireland as a Destination?
Guides to Visiting & Moving to Ireland
I moved to the west coast of Ireland alone with my child and my animals and figured it out the hard way. Now, I've written it all down, from the edge of the Atlantic. They aren't brochures; they are honest guides. This is everything I wish someone had told me before I came, and everything I still tell friends before they visit or plan their move now.
Downloadable Apps
Wellbeing & Community
Digital apps to anchor your daily rhythms, mindful spaces and community-forward connection.Coming SOON
ROOTWORK: A place to gather yourself, the way you'd press flowers into a field book, and a calendar that actually keeps you on track. Rootwork holds your mind, body, relationships, purpose and play in one gentle space, letting you plan what's ahead while never telling you what to do, only asking what's true for you today. Log a little or a lot, and each week becomes its own page of specimens found along the way, proof of a life being lived, not a checklist being completed.
HEDGEROW: Your neighbours, your street, your extra eggs, your outgrown cot, the person down the road who's good with a paintbrush. Hedgerow is a way to trade and help each other close to home, no shipping, no stranger's van at your door, no big faceless platform standing between you. Just people, trading the way it used to work before it got complicated.
Homeschool Resources
Self-Directed Planners & Project Books
Practical blueprints for intentional home/unschooling.
I've been on a self-directed journey with my own daughter and a beautiful community of parents who want their children to have a say in what and how they learn. Through experience and observation, I have learned how to better support the young people to guide themselves (and I'm still always learning). This weekly companion holds months, weeks and days ahead and allows the young person to take charge of their own learning, through planning, practice, noticing and accountability.The project planner is a supportive guide for individual projects, should that be needed.
The Gatherer
Lee Bradley, Creator of Wild Earth
I grew up in the States, and grew up again in Ireland, arriving in the summer of 2017 with my daughter, our pets, and not much else.Wild Earth began in the autumn of 2015, while I was elbow-deep in a master's program, as an herbal apothecary brand. It didn't stay in its lane. That same season it grew into a preschool too, born entirely out of my own daughter's needs, the ones no existing school seemed built to hold. I picked up a camera under the same name for a while after that. Wild Earth was never one thing. It was whatever needed making next.Wild Earth, because I am. Wild wherever I land, whichever coastline or forest or unfamiliar language I happen to be standing in. Ireland is the one that stuck. It's home now, in the deepest sense of the word, even as somewhere like Japan has started pulling at the edges of my attention.That first preschool's ethos, that children (and the rest of us) learn best when we're trusted to lead ourselves, crossed the ocean with me. I carried it directly into a project I co-founded here, and I've been documenting the whole unruly, beautiful unfolding of my life in Ireland ever since, over on @wild.in.ireland.Somewhere along the way, I noticed the pattern. The guides for anyone visiting or moving to this island didn't start as a plan. They started as answers, the same questions asked again and again through @wild.in.ireland, until I realised I'd built up a small library of trial and error worth handing over. The wellness app came from the same place, a gap I kept running into in my own life (gentle, humane planning that simply didn't exist yet, so I made it). The other app grew out of watching how much goodwill sits unused in a community once neighbours have an easy way to actually trade with each other. The homeschooling resources, the communities I keep starting from scratch, even this website, all of it follows the same thread. I'm a creator. I make the thing when the thing isn't out there yet.It's been a journey, to say the least, and this is everything I've gathered along the way.xx, LeeGet in touch: [email protected]
