The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you are worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you are here and that you're finding even more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world. Joanna Macy.
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| Fascinating article also on this painter and her mother - Poppy Melia |
My Resurgence magazine came through the post yesterday. Full of hope and optimism for the future, and of course art and poetry. What with Greta Thunberg in Bristol yesterday there are faint glimmerings on the horizon, the best thing is to stop worrying about pandemics, we definitely haven't reached one yet.
Brigitt Strawbridge Howard's book - Dancing with Bees, a Journey back to Nature looks tempting though I have been an advocate of bumblebees for years, and have rescued them early morning, cold from the night before. Just a dab of liquidy honey on cotton wool will revive the bee. I have photographed their beautiful behinds as they fall asleep in foxgloves and counted their numbers in the garden. As for flowers have planted many. It is good to start early for them for they don't mind the cold weather, pulmonary or lungwort in early spring, coinciding with the blossom of early fruit trees.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote "Flight of The Bumblebee" in 1899. Now we need someone to write "Plight of the Bumblebee" as they have suffered huge declines over the past century: two species went extinct in the past 80 years, and eight species are currently endangered.
ReplyDeleteAlways clever with words YP, the death knell on our bees has been sounding for years but only heard by a few people. To get the green message across is a war of attrition.
DeleteYour weather sounds like ours Thelma - bitterly cold and very windy but mostly sunny. Oddly I went out to lunch with a friend - only a couple of miles from home to a pub which lies just at the base of Penhill. As we drove into the carpark there was a snow storm - only lasted a few minutes but a reminder that winter hasn't quite finished with us yet.
ReplyDeleteThe snow falls at different heights, going out of your comfort zone and there is plenty of snow up on the moors. But you had a good outing with your friend and that what counts.
DeleteI used to have a subscription to Positive News which I have allowed to lapse this year. Resurgence is a new one to me. Have liked their FB page so will take a further look. Arilx
ReplyDeleteIt can be very attractive the magazine full of clever writing, and beautiful artwork, I have had the magazine for over thirty years. So if you do get it, enjoy. x
DeleteLately, I have had some problems getting on your site and I wasn’t sure if it was my old iPad or just some quirky thing with Blogger. As you can see, though, I was successful today.
ReplyDeleteI have a lovely wood plaque in my family room with a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that says, “Where flowers bloom, so does hope”. I believe that to be true. Gardening magazines and catalogs arrive in my mailbox everyday and so do seeds. The delight in these help me to think about beautiful things rather than the constant distressing news.
Glad you made it back, sometimes our computers fall from grace and become illogical, instead of the logical beings they are supposed to be. Spring is definitely on its way my two bantams have started laying again. And it is very true flowers will always fill us with optimism.
ReplyDeleteI have loved to read Resurgance in the past, I had a subscription for a while but I haven't read it for ages I will look out for a copy as it is an interesting read, thank you for the reminder. We have to be full of hope and optimism about the future otherwise it will not be a good place.
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