Once a month I spend my Saturday afternoon with fifteen others in a green space in London. We are given a prompt like go down to the river and speak to the ghosts or go and walk in one direction and write everything that comes to your mind, or close your eyes and then draw the textures of the sounds or learn to roll this nettle leaf in your fingers and eat it. The group is called Walking Trees Collective and it’s one of the best things about being in London. To change your focus to be with the land, the trees, the sky, the histories and the other people is very transformative. After three hours of slowing down, of spending time with the mud under your feet and the leaves at your fingertips, your whole body, emotions and pace of life is changed and you get back on the tube transformed. I can’t recommend enough.
<aside> 🍃 Connect with the land, the water, the air, the flora, the fauna, the human beings that connect with those rural areas and the spiritual forces of those territories and support links between the neighbourhoods and their closest ecological areas.
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