With apologies to those who aren't really "into" kids, I'm pretty focused on them this week because of our Nature Daycamp.
Working with these wonderful youngsters is like a tonic after months and months of focus on the climate change emergency.
Today we visited the forest. We sat and talked with the birds, played Camouflage, did an activity called Hug a Tree (with uproarious laughter).
But my favourite activity was giving each pair a stethoscope to listen to the "heartbeat" of a tree. The best moment of the day was when Isabela came running back to tell me, after doing some experimenting on the moss and the rocks, that "everything has a heartbeat!"
Can you imagine a world where every human being, of every age, recognizes that the rest of Nature is living and breathing? We would treat everything as kin, just as the aboriginal peoples did.
And, I'm betting, we would remain childlike in our sense of awe and discovery in the world of our natural neighbours.
Tomorrow we're going to the marsh!
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