It is always heartening to know there is other out there who are still dreamers (and I will use that in the best sense of the world) I feel so lucky to have been able to keep my childlike wonder. But it is exhausting to walk through a world surrounded from people who are so disconnected that they look at you like you’re the strange one.
Thank you for the piece. It was the perfect start to my day.
Thank you for this. Trying to decolonize ourselves even if our own culture was the colonizer ... all are harmed by this way of thinking, both the colonizers and the colonized. I have a small urban yard so true rewilding is not possible. However, planting gardens of native wildflowers to nurture wildlife, in place of lifeless turf grass, is a small yet important act of hope and resistance here in the U.S., where chemical lawn culture has ruled post WW2. I felt much the same way about the workplace as you do, and my most important daily goal now I am "retired" from paid work is to spend as much time as possible outside among wild things, to make up for all the years I couldn't. xo
I love the way as writers we think we are sitting down to write one thing and then it goes in an entirely different direction.
And love the rewilding of your garden. Our bit of forest garden is rewilding and the middle part of it becoming bog with reads where the river floods it so really resonated.
Perfect.
You transported me right into your backyard.
It is always heartening to know there is other out there who are still dreamers (and I will use that in the best sense of the world) I feel so lucky to have been able to keep my childlike wonder. But it is exhausting to walk through a world surrounded from people who are so disconnected that they look at you like you’re the strange one.
Thank you for the piece. It was the perfect start to my day.
We can’t change history but we can face the present and change our future. Thanks for a beautiful read. 💚
Thank you for this. Trying to decolonize ourselves even if our own culture was the colonizer ... all are harmed by this way of thinking, both the colonizers and the colonized. I have a small urban yard so true rewilding is not possible. However, planting gardens of native wildflowers to nurture wildlife, in place of lifeless turf grass, is a small yet important act of hope and resistance here in the U.S., where chemical lawn culture has ruled post WW2. I felt much the same way about the workplace as you do, and my most important daily goal now I am "retired" from paid work is to spend as much time as possible outside among wild things, to make up for all the years I couldn't. xo
This is a superb piece of writing Ramona.
I love the way as writers we think we are sitting down to write one thing and then it goes in an entirely different direction.
And love the rewilding of your garden. Our bit of forest garden is rewilding and the middle part of it becoming bog with reads where the river floods it so really resonated.
A profound message beautifully expressed. Thanks, Ramona.