The fairy godmother replied that true magic is to help each thing become its best and most free self.*
Rebecca Solnit

Love God and love every species as yourself. This is the deep challenge of this moment in time.**
Philip Newell

Near to where I once lived in Edinburgh
stands an eight hundred year old oak wood;
Walking amongst these astonishing witnesses
of time, I found myself in awe and humbled.

It is estimated that there are almost
fifty thousand species of animal and
plant presently threatened by extinction –
Some estimates are in nine figures, including insects.

We don’t have to be religious, philosophical, or
activist to deeply appreciate the home in
which we live and move and have our being,
simply an explorer of our profound humanness.

*Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator;
**Philip Newell’s The Great Search.