Ways of Being

40th birthday What a year. While our shared home is burning, our relatives are going extinct, and the world has tipped into chaos; while genocide has become an acceptable act of violence and opposing it a crime; while UK streets are filled with flags symbolising rising racism; here I am, on this beautiful Devon hillside, feeling deeply connected to this land I’ve called home for the past 17 years and surrounded by people doing profoundly good work locally and across the wider world. In this little oasis, our day-to-day challenges are never absent but met with presence because we are driven by our cause and held by deep gratitude for this gift of life. I have dedicated my life and work to helping others foster a deep connection with themselves and the Earth . Despite all the beauty I see, t here is no moment when I turn a blind eye to the suffering of humans and more-than-humans alike. This year, I truly understood what it means to hold both joy and grief, my own and the world’s, in m...