Stories From the garden
A SPACE THAT NEVER LEAVES YOU
First impressions are something that always stick with you. I was first introduced to the Listening Space garden in the heart of the Caversham GP practice, during the first lockdown in 2020. It was a sunny day in the middle of spring where everything was in its peak of bloom.
Voices of the universe
Much of what I have brought to Global Generation’s work in London has roots in the group of islands 18,300 km across the seas that form Aotearoa New Zealand; the land where I was born. The Covid pandemic meant that what might have been a brief trip for me and my husband, Rod Sugden, to visit my 95-year-old mother turned into a five-month stay.
PASSING THE BATON
It’s early evening and I am sitting by the door in the Story Garden classroom as I listen to the words; “feel your feet on the ground, feel your breath, find a way to sit very still.” I feel my heart pounding and I focus on the words, my body, the feeling in the room. As the simple and gentle instructions keep coming, the room drops into a shared space of silence and I relax.
A seat at the table
We often think of the Summer Solstice as a peak, climactic moment to sum up the best times of our year and a sign to renew our energy for the rest of the year. What if it’s more than that?
Making the new paper garden (part 1)
“To re-inhabit the places in which we live is not to raze the smokestacks and freeways that we might find there but to fit them back into the larger unfolding of land and cosmos.”
— Freya Mathews