11/06/2025
The last 5 years of Space for Nature have taken me all over the place . From the fields and the forests , to the cities and the towns .
From the utter joy of finding belonging in wild places , to the devastating and soul fracturing exhile and expulsion from a community unable to know the reason for boundaries is not to push them till they fall but to approach with care and wait to be invited in .
From walking the landscape to walking the ward , and rewiring the short cicuited fragile neural pathways that have beem trappled once to often , to learning to balance living with contradictions , complexity and incongruence by recalling reason , sense , discernment and my own way of being .
The aim was and always has been to bring more biodiversity and wild life into the allotment . To care for and tend the space , not for people but for those who live there already .
The birds , ants , beetles , bees , buttercups , butterflies , hawthorn , elder , birch , the grasses and brambles , the nettle and the sycamore .
The forgetmeknotts - the orchids and the red clover .
And every other being whose love brought me to learn to deepen my connection to my home through teaching me how to be of purpose to their home .
It comes with great pleasure amd delight . And tough lessons and regrets . It comes with letting go of the belief that life is not sentient , intelligent and capble of communicating in a thousand different languages at once .
It comes with deep rest , slowing right the way down , stillness and actions that are agreed . It comes with getting to know the ndscape before doing anything and being preparred to say no to humans who won't and don't believe the land knows what it needs if you ask and listen .
Thats the hardest part .
Getting out of a colonised brain that wants to take over . And exercise more the brain that Knows what true relationship and communion is .
Its
Not pressure , stress , distress , fear , anxiety and punitive consequences for the sake of exerting control over .
Its something entirely different we have all been severed from to some degree or another .
We turned away from life and began to allow something else to direct us .
And it was that day , we walked away from the garden , ashamed of our nakedness and disconnected from our true nature .
This 5 year journey had come to an end amd its time to return it to itself oncemore .
With love , appreciation and gratitude for all
That was given and all
That was recieved .
Aho .
🤲🏻🙏🏻👍🏻🫶🏻
