The many blessings of the lockdown -part 2

A wee peek into the garden of my neighbour that I've commandeered in this lockdown, as he's stuck in the city. It's right below my house, in the splendid facade of Guardia Sanframondi's medieval quarter. There's a waterfall just to the side of us - giving us a constant ambient relax, and birdsong all around, as they get more and more at ease with the much-less human activities all around.

The blessing of this relationship with this space, these plants, animals, birds, insects is so significant. We're also in the midst of a campaign to protect the green space from being turned into a carpark (!!!!) - it's a mature green zone, with trees of several hundred years old, and a HUGE amount of biodiversity, in a valley of heavily farmed olive and grape fields. There is no question that it's destruction would ruin what beauty, value and potential the old town has...

And so I feel very connected, purposeful, determined, working single-handedly to try and keep aspects of the space in order, tending to the trees... and now, getting to reap some rewards of veg, flowers, herbs - in addition to my usual wild foraging that I do in this area - though I see that the owner has used OGM (GM) seeds/ plantlings; they're not seeding after their flowering like they should naturally... I'll speak to him about that when I see him next! The town has a no-OGM policy, thankfully <3

The blessing of this space is very significant for my health: I've had various issues over the past years - I call it my 'Living In A Reality That Doesn't Understand Living In The Gift' Disease :-) I've had such frictions and lack of Divine Flow, between myself, my work, and mainstream - censorship has been a massive, recurring theme, and as a free-thinking, aligned-with-creative-alchemy, liberating work-life visionary artist, this has been truly aggravating! Being able to step out of my door and down into communion with nature, is a profound healing, grounding, perspective-gaining exercise for me. I am blessed.

I talk extensively in my work, around how we can heal from mainstream disequilibrium and from many illnesses and even deeply-affecting disease, by simply putting ourselves into our right environment, and being open to flourishing...

Much love to us all,
Clare