I belong to ‘Wildlife in Ascot’, so I KNOW that we must have a wildlife pond ! Totally ignorant as I am about such wonderments, what I’ve gathered is that you WAIT for inhabitants to arrive. At the start there were only copulating flies, upheld by surface tension. But I like the idea of waiting for the guests….Ah! The smallest of frogs, sighted ! New Year’s Day .. statuesque, large Heron.
Rainy, January afternoon. Victorian community hall, ten minutes from home. Seven Grown- Ups on the back row. ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
Report :- ” They were very good at shouting, singalonging, laughing, clapping with vigour”.
I was on the end seat with leg-room. Had to squint down the row to my left, to check that I’d got the hand moves OK, in the songs.
Excelled equally with the surrounding myriad small children… in ” Be brave Jack ” … “Oh no it isn’t / is” and outstandingly in ” It’s behind you” … enter very very small Ghost.
At night I lay in bed, HAPPY.
Speak Truth to Power, another banner held aloft :- Democratic elections, Referendums, Petitions, Mediations, Strikes, Demos, Sit-ins, Riots, Revolutions, War, Despair, Suicide, Physical breakdown, Mental Breakdown…..
Solidarity, Resilience, Community, Self-reliance, Listening, Sharing, Strategies, Evolution, Engagement, Cooperation, Systemic analysis, Legal challenges, Commitment, Determination, Courage, Compassion …..
HOPE !
VIVA !! [ Pix of ASCENT local environment network getting stall ready to encourage ‘Speak Up & Speak Out’ at annual Carnival]
If you have the guts to follow the risk…if one follows what I call one’s “bliss” – the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life – doors will open up…if you follow your bliss, you’ll have your bliss, whether you have money or not – Joseph Campbell. For more quotes :- http://www.azquotes.com/author/2387-Joseph_Campbell
Riverford, an organic food home delivery service, have created a project of PRACTICAL INSPIRATION.
They say – We have completed four years of fundraising for our charity partner Send a Cow and are delighted to report that, with your help, we’ve raised a huge £161,128.
It’s been a fantastic joint effort from customers and staff; fundraising activities have included sponsored mud runs, Three Peaks Challenge, quizzes and raffles, donations and selling garden fleece.
The donation supported the Going Organic project in Northern Uganda, successfully transforming the lives of a rural community by helping them to produce food sustainably. We are now supporting Project Migogoro, also focused on organic, sustainable agriculture in North Uganda. See how you can help.
Thank you so much to Riverford customers and staff for your support. We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved.
To see video – https://youtu.be/S7ZzkO9f8PU
For more info – www.sendacow.org.uk
In her Story ‘Tales beyond the Pale’ Jennifer Leach writes of tunnelling, like a desert gopher, to find her Path. My tunnelling this week took me from an Ascot Labour Party meet’s talk of redistribution of wealth, to uploading George Orwell’s ‘ Road to Wigan Pier’, his description of 1936 coal mining, then woke up to the fact of this iPad’s dependency on the miners of DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) producing ‘conflict minerals’. Then on to the US ‘Enough Project’ and The Dodd-Frank Act 2010 to track & report conflict minerals in their products. Stopped tunnelling at George Clooney joint initiative ‘Satellite Surveillance Project’. For more info – www.enoughproject.org and www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/gallery/conflict-minerals-people-drc-gallery-sec
In the Autumn, trees drop leaves to seal the spots where the leaves have been. Fluids cannot flow without leaves, which change colour & drop. If this did not happen, the tree would die from the cold. In the warmer weather the tree uses sunlight, water and air to make its food. Leaves sprout and the tree grows again.
Living WITH Nature, let’s live her ways. Shedding. Hunkering down. Roots associating with nutrient-accessing fungi.
The Sarajevo Red Line project was launched in April 2012, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo. The project – a collaboration between the city of Sarajevo and East West Theatre Company – served as a poignant reminder of the longest siege in modern history.
The main focus of the commemorative event remains a large chair installation; consisting of 11,541 empty red chair, arranged in 825 rows, the installation symbolised the 11,541 victims who were killed during the siege of Sarajevo.
The chairs, assembled to look like an audience, stretched for 800 metres and contained 643 small red chairs to represent the 643 children massacred during the siege.
For further info – https://www.srebrenica.org.uk/resources/research-resources/art-photography/sarajevo-red-line-project/
WE CAN WRAP OUR DAILY LIVES, IN BEAUTY
A picture celebration of family and friends’ imaginings: skilful play, with all forms of Creativity
ADAM TREWARTHA’S GALLERY
Based in Windsor, Berkshire with an LRPS distinction from the Royal Photographic Society.
Offical photographer for the Windsor Fringe Festival since 2004 and Chairman of Windsor Photographic Society from 2008-2010.
With a diverse range of photographic expertise to meet the varied needs of his clients, he relishes the challnge that every new job brings.
Anne feels honoured to know the Trewartha family, as friends : Creative individuals.
We got to know Adam some five years ago when we commissioned him to photograph one of our grandchildren, at sixteen. The hours of attention Adam gave to this task of encouragement.. showed us his skill and his sensitivity.”
REQUIRE TENANTS .. so it’s fruitful that an IDEA descended on rising, Christmas Eve, is added to a collection of “WHAT TO DO WHEN OLD ‘N’ CREAKY” wizzo stuff.
Inspired by parental pride displayed in Christmas cards, at offsprings’ emergent life-interventions: late teens/ early 20’s. Realised there are 20 or so Second Cousins and GrandChildren who have scant, nay thread-bare, knowledge of each other’s lives… and yet ‘of the blood’. I intend to email said PHALANX OF THE BEAUTIFUL, early 2017 .. and record, with their cooperation , a FAMILY SCROLL OF FUTURE HOPE.