23/04/2022
So moved by this beautiful land art, integrating the softness and force of nature with our own footprint - one that can tread lightly and with adoration and awe for the world around us if we take the time to slow and listen.
Autumn always brings such a sense of nostalgia into my body - sometimes I can’t quite put it into words, but I feel incredibly connected to the seasons and the cycles around me, and I always think back to how much time I spent in nature as a child. Walking for hours through the local bush land to collect tadpoles, gathering leaves, twigs, flowers and berries to make potions.
As I grow older, I smile when I acknowledge just how much that little person brought with her into my adult life and how intricately I have woven the seasons and cycles into my work. As a Naturopath, considering the individual as a whole and also a sum of their parts, who exist on this earth as a reflection of their relationship with the environment around them. Using the therapeutic properties of plants and herbs in tinctures. As a Doula, where I stand and hold through birth, death and everything in between. Witnessing the sheer power of the human body to grow, birth and feed a whole other human.
Today, I would love to lay in a field with my hair woven delicately into the long, sweet grass. I crave to work with clay so that I can feel the earth on my dirty hands. This week we celebrate Earth Day, but in fact it is Earth Day, each and every morning we wake to the warmth of the sun and every shortening evening when the sky turns purple on the horizon and the moon rises in the distance.
In the words of the late Moss Cass - “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” 🤲🏼🌏
Look after her, and each other x
Artwork by & Andy Goldsworthy 🍁
