Chapter 3: Earthed 🌍
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March 2025
It can be all too easy to let modern distractions, bad news, external pressures and worries steal our joy and along with it that sense of wonder at being alive and being creatures in a beautiful world! With work, responsibilities and urban lifestyles, we can become disconnected from the natural world around us. When just a simple decision to go for a little walk on a day off or sit in a park or garden and notice the natural world around us can do us the world of good!
I felt so privileged then , to find myself back at Rhuddin after a busy weekend working at the hospital. I was blissfully aware of wandering across the fields under a big sky, feeling my feet connecting to the ground underneath (through wool socks and boots!).
One of the days there, we experienced amazingly changeable weather: rainbows and hailstones which ended in being bathed in golden evening sunshine. Another afternoon I was there in still, sunny and calm conditions. I looked long across to the beautiful Brecons bathed in late winter sunshine. I noticed the hills shine out with so many different colours that shifted as the day rolled through: deep orange bracken picked out; a yellow greenish grey on the wide flanks of the sunny hills lit up mid afternoon; purple blue mountains highlighted as the air cooled in the distance.
It felt so good to be here again. After sensing my own resistance from all the transitions I’d experienced in the last few months, moving from Cornwall to here, I now felt the arrival of a new feeling . A sense of really being here, really starting to feel the place, being part of something new and amazing and true to our hearts. I could feel my roots unfurling and reaching down into the ground. Could I sense the refreshing water and nutrition here? Could this be a time to thrive and grow.
At the same time as planting the little trees, I too had a wonderful and exciting sense of being EARTHED.
Reaching into the cool soil, seeing the worms and feeling the earth in my hands, making room for the younglings to be tenderly laid down and rooted in, I felt like I was allowing myself the same grace and space to be here. Moving my body, to stamp the little ones in firmly and wish them well, it was a beautiful couple of days and time very well spent.
Sooooo thankful 😌
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