Hi to all who were around the fire :-) I'd like to pick up on a few resonances from our shared time. What Mariposa shared re her garden helper + the lack of awareness/connection with the plants struck a chord for me in that i myself and no doubt many if us in our Tribe are facing the challenge of dealing with this on one level or another...the accompanying emotions + how best to act. It is an active question that informs my daily life...

Which leads me on what came up for me listening to Tia's sharing about the fact that she spends much time in solitude. This raised for me the pain i experience and navigate with in the course of my interactions with humans...and i have learned that this is a common experience for others too, in a society that still has much healing to go through. I have recently been feeling the urge, as has, I learned, a good friend of mine... to jack it all in, sell my home +go + live in the woods...away from people. The uniting factor in mine + my friend's discourse was 'eco-anxiety' issues. I know deep down this is not the solution and i feel strongly that my path of service + of personal evolution is in being present among people...but how not to burn out or melt down ? In this recent wavespell i have had a flurry of opportunities to visit folks outside where i live...and this has done me the world of good, provided a vital reset + relinked me with people i feel at ease with + with whom i feel variously on a creative, co-inspirational wavelength. I then feel able to return to living + caring + weaving + holding space in the more precise area that is my home. I realise that i need to open up the focus of 'my work' wider than just my hamlet, in order not to go crazy. I have been concerned that i would spin out + not be able to handle anything larger + that i have needed to get my basics sorted out first...a life pattern loop that i have not yet successfully been able to navigate out of yet...but it was in my intended from when i joined the Ark journey + the QPW. I have the encouragement, through a new found friend, to take the step of weaving my ideas with others in a nascent local collaboration...So it seems the Universe is beckoning me to have faith again to expand outwards + not just inwards.

And finally, Stacey's sharing about the 'What do i love ?' question brought up for me : i love finding marbles (fairy gifts ;-), buttons, bringing new life to things folks throw away...and, like Stacey...going out into Nature with a curious spirit + an open heart + learning how to harvest + create with her abundance 💚 Thank you for this rich harvest of reflections. I look foward to another fireside sharing...and as Julianne suggested, at different times/days so that more folks have the facility to come 🙏🏻