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Helena Red's avatar

Great timing with this! Am hugging folk with fervour these days as so many I see are looking weary or down.

Love the quote too! I think it's incredibly huge with respect to it's truth, a simplistic yet paragon practice of stopping any unnecessary thoughts and it's freely available to all of us!! It's NOT too good to be true 🙏🥰

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Gavin Mounsey's avatar

When I was younger and living in the interior of BC I used to explore up in the desert hills above a canyon in the South Okanagan and sometimes the wild horses that call that place home would come up to greet us. (this clip shows the area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3MT6MGX5s , please forgive the abrasive language, I was in 18 year old mentality at the time of recording). I would bring an extra apple from my parents orchard incase I was blessed to cross paths with them to share with them. The first time I saw them it was the stallion who came running up to greet me. my conditioning from living in "civilization" in this life told me to be afraid and run, but something deeper in me, something wild within my heart and spirit that recognized the stallion as my brother told me to stay. I stayed and he stopped within a foot of in front of me, lowering his head in a gesture that moved my heart.

Now I live in southern Ontario where most of the wild four legged beings have been killed or driven away to the north (in the name of "progress", industrial agriculture and urban development) so I strive to engage with that which is wild through connecting with and nurturing wild rooted beings.

One such wild being that I have invited to call my garden home is Malus sieversii

For more info : https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-wild-apples-of-the-tian-shan

I feel that in order to embark on a path of re-wilding and healing our relationship with the wild, we must invite people to fall back in love with the wilderness and the wild beings that dwell there. No amount of threatening, guilt tripping, bribing or other top down methods will convince the lost humans to change their ways. It has to be love. Thank you for walking a path guided by love and encouraging our human family to remember their innate love for our fellow beings.

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