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Blessings of the morning light
David Whyte Poems In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,coming back to this life from the othermore secret, moveable and frighteningly honest worldwhere everything began,there is a small opening into the new daywhich closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live.What you…
Read MoreWhy investing some time in a natural environment is so important right now.
The prospect of lockdown in these colder and wetter month’s feels a harder prospect to how it was at the end of March. We had months of sun shine and sitting in the garden and feeling the sun on our skin. This next period, the days are shorter, colder and damper. Spending time in nature…
Read MoreCornfields and Storms
An evening Stroll……. A sticky warm evening after a blistering hot day The clouds are getting darker and darker – the wind rising for a few moments and then dying back off. Then the sky goes black, thunder bellows and lightening strikes So where do I take shelter? In a cornfield…… The rustling of leaves,…
Read MoreLessons from a Tree – the Rowan Tree
Our next tree in focus from our Natures teachings series Rowan trees are at their best growing wild in the mountains and glens. They are an absolute delight in all seasons producing beautifully scented white flowers in spring and bright berries in the autumn. These mountain trees are pioneer trees and are able to survive…
Read MoreFinding our Inner Strength
Finding inner strength whilst facing uncertainty To state the obvious we are in high anxiety and fear driven times. Some of the hardest periods in my life have been when not knowing what’s going to happen next. Not Knowing my direction or where I am going. Even if the answer has not been what I have…
Read MoreTiny Moments – Ephemera
Ephemera – Something Transitionary or short lived The one thing that you can be guaranteed of in life is that change will happen. In nature, almost everything is transitional and changes moment to moment The sound of a bird fluttering past and their wing movements A raindrop falling onto a rose petal How the wind…
Read MoreA Kipling Poem
A poem by Rudyard Kipling The way through the woods They shut the road through the woods, Seventy years ago, Weather and rain have undone it again, And know you would never know there was once a road through the woods, before they planted trees. Is is underneath the coppice and heath, and the thin anemones only he…
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