Advance Notice: There will be no posts to this blog Fridays 15 and 22 January 2021. Moving OnThree new year gifts Try this! Just turn on your sound and click the white arrow. Happy new year?
Insight from a surprising source
"Being from the US, I hope we make a commitment to change our energy and heal our soil, move away from monoculture or go into restorative agriculture. So that means putting back the right nutrients, the right carbon into the soil. And then from there, we'll help grow better forests, heal our burnt forests and help more oxygen to be stored. That's what I hope for the US. We need that." At a personal levelI'm sure she is right. The US, and indeed all developed countries that are ruining the very world they occupy, need to do all the things she says. She realises that governments and large companies must step up to bring about large scale change. In the fashion industry, in which she works, she knows waste and pollution are prevalent. She knows that governance inside the big players has to initiate the push to improve. Wixson is also aware that individuals need to make their own adjustments (open a window instead of using the AC; use refills instead of new containers). However she sees that a concession to present reality is necessary and isn't afraid to admit it. I know that especially with the virus right now, not everyone can do exactly and live exactly the most sustainably because coping with whatever is going on and being able to be mentally well is probably the most important part of humanity right now, so that we can then all collectively change our ways. I didn't expect to find these convictions and this willingness to speak out coming from a 26 year old modelling icon featured in a highly up-market magazine. But I'm very glad they are there. Another giftMarion received a third new year gift – from a friend in England. She sent a poem – more correctly the first stanza of a famous poem. Written by Minnie Haskins the complete poem was called 'God Knows.' The first part, known always as 'The Gate of the Year' was popular early in the early 20th century and became especially famous when King George the Sixth used it in his Christmas broadcast in 1939. I was too young to know. I was one! The Gate of the Year And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God That shall be better than light and safer than a known way.” So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod lightly into the night. And he led me towards the hills and the breaking of the day in the lone East. Faced with uncertainty - worriedMarion and I received the same poem in another New Year greeting. Perhaps more and more of us, faced with COVID, climate change and its effects, biodiversity loss, and economic worry, are looking further and more seriously for answers than we usually do. Is our comfort bubble slightly pricked? Uncertainty seems to lie ahead. I hope many of us, and institutions we inhabit, will find the Hand of God and step forth. □ John McInnes Friday 8 January 2021 ##########
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