I’ve found it difficult to muster the spirit to blog recently.
This has been an odd time, muted as we mourn the Queen’s
death, then waking up to a terrifying budget.
Underlying it all has been the War in Ukraine and the oncoming climate
and biodiversity disaster, not to mention a winter of privations. Closer to
home, a number of friends (including our Ukrainian guests) have been suffering
bereavement.
However, today I was filing away the year’s photos and I
found something which had interested me in February. Following a gale, I saw how wind-thrown trees
still succeeded in bringing forth blossom.
Then I began to spot trees which had endured some trauma in the past but
had continued to grow and thrive, forming new and different shapes.
A couple of weeks ago, Nigel and I went to a seminar by a
wonderful organisation called HEART on deep adaptation – how we can best be
resilient in the face of the Climate Crisis.
They shared many ideas about forming communities where people learn to
help one another. It sounded not so much
like a survival mechanism as a richer and more fulfilling way of life.
I hope then that we shall be like the trees and bring forth
beautiful new forms in the face of adversity.
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