It is early morning, as we lie in the low lying York district, no snow, only wet sleety globules fall from the sky. Further down the road from Pickering to Whitby has been closed, as it always is, the drive over the moors becomes too dangerous.
I emptied the bag of wool which arrived yesterday ordered for the next blanket I am knitting, it lay in a pile on the floor and I wondered had I gone too far. But slow is the word I would choose to pace my life to now. For the less I ask of the environment the more I give back.
The frosted glitter of the frozen lawn is beautiful, the birds still sing even if it is minus 2 degrees and this year there will still be bees to pollinate the foxgloves.
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| Foxgloves |
Something that made me happy this morning was finding out that my eldest grandson Tom, who works in PR in Manchester but has been furloughed, has constructed a blog on keeping fit. He has always been an enthusiasts for sport but now he seems to want to pass on his knowledge after completing a course.
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| An ecstatic welcome for Tom from his sister on return from uni. |
And lastly, did you ever come across 'The Whole Earth Catalogu', in the days of the 1970s when some of us were green, and believed, or at least took on board Lovelock's theory of 'Gaia. I had come to a truth earlier than this that the world worked through 'homeostasis'* it was already a fact in my brain. Simply put you would only have to contemplate a tree and its environment to understand that all living things are connected for their functioning
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| The first cover of The Whole Earth Catalogu |
*the tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes
Refs; Thanks to Carruthers for introducing me to Living Dharma. Reading links takes up a helluva time though!
Yes, there was always a Whole Earth catalogue knocking about somewhere. It was the forerunner of the internet. Now look how big the internet is.
ReplyDeleteYes the internet is still trying to police itself. Mark Zukerberg and James Dorsey have started to take the bull by the horns over the outgoing president. But the innocence of the 1960s flowing into the 1970s has long gone.
DeleteHeavy sow here yesterday - beautiful blue sky and sunshine today.
ReplyDeleteAs to the Whole Earth and now the Internet - where next one asks. Maybe this enforced slowing down as we all contemplate lockdown will give us all some time to think
Well according to Novacene, hyper intelligent cyberbots will rule the world, humans maybe kept on as pets, but artificial intelligence will monitor the stresses of the Earth. You have been warned ;)
DeleteLiving Dharma? Oh yes, that post! I remember the hefty LRB article. It took me a while to get through, too. Good, though.
ReplyDeleteIt was an excellent essay on Lovelock. I always remember 'Daisy World' explaining how things work. His latest book Novacene seems a bit scary though. Not book-club reading though.
DeleteHow well I remember Whole Earth. And Mother Earth. Well, this past year has eased up on the earth.
ReplyDeleteWell it had an American base, 'How to be Green' so fashionable at the time and yet it never broke through with the underlying message Joanne.
DeleteThis morning, I woke to the sound of a cardinal singing from the back yard. I'd never heard that before. I said to my husband, "Listen...doesn't it sound like spring?" It isn't, of course. It was -9C this am, but it was nice to lay in a warm bed and listen to a bird sing.
ReplyDeleteWe get worried when temperature goes minus 10 degrees, though it is happening in Scotland at the moment Debby. Birds are so much braver than us over the cold though. I put the heating on in one of the bedrooms, went up later and there was a butterfly at the window, waiting to be let out, fooled by the sunny weather outside and the warmth inside. I gave it a feed instead.
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