Be In Partnership With The World Around You

We all have spaces and places we belong to. Badges that we wear and names that we call ourselves. We use these to determine and steer our direction.

We use these to inform our judgement, We hold onto them like skin - sometimes loose-fitting or tightly worn. We reorganise and arrange our lives to fit those names and words.

Language has a way of placing belonging - of tying you to something. Language has a way of filling your ears with a holding, your body with a landing and your soul with a resting.

Language carries ties and can suppress the natural desire to individualise, to explore, expand and wonder. To wonder, and to lean into the wild - must form an inextricable component of belonging.

Growing in partnership with the earth, be it in fraternity or sorority or sorority with the soil, move with the seasons, allow for fallow periods, times of rewilding, of letting go of control and allow nature to call up its roots.

Be at one with the cycles, phases and rhythms. They are ancient, deeply ingrained and restorative.

Part of love is about letting go and allowing life to fly and divert onto its own path. So offer yourself and others space, time and the parameters to expand. That is an intrinsic part of belonging too - working with the natural elasticity of the bonds between us and with the land. Allowing for growth, for seeds and for fallow fields - for depth, for growth and for expanse.