When was the last time you noticed the breeze on your skin? Or the last time you stood by the sea on a stormy day and felt the droplets of salty water shower your body? Or the last time you were in a forest as the wind whistled through the trees? It’s a strange phenomenon that despite living on a planet controlled by the forces of nature, so many people are totally disconnected from the world around them. However you’re feeling today, whether it’s connected to nature or stuck in your own deep, dark hole, or maybe somewhere in between, take a few moments to stand outside and feel the wind or the breeze on your face. Perhaps ask the wind directly: ‘What message do you have for me?’
Tag: environment
Why Creativity is the Key to Saving Our Planet
When you were a child, did you used to enjoy making things just for the fun of it? Wasn’t it relaxing to just sit and make stuff? And then our whole lives became about consuming rather than creating. It’s time for us to wake up and realise that we all carry the light within; the light that will save us and our planet from darkness. And once you stop consuming so much, you re-awaken your creativity.
The True Cost of Fast Fashion
If our world has got to the point where a 23 year old woman in Bangladesh has to give up her daughter just so we can have cheap clothing, then something has gone seriously wrong. And I, for one, don’t want to be part of the problem. In the west, we have choices and a voice. Not everyone is so lucky.