This is not a check-list.
It is not about ways to recycle or buy greener energy.
There is enough advice out there for you to check out.
Lists are good for remembering things in a hurry and ensuring everything is done, completed, bought…
This is simpler and permanent.
It is what I have learned about living as lightly as possible on this beautiful Earth.
These small bits of advice are not in any particular order, but as I think of them and how they have made a difference to my life…
*** Re-claim and nurture knowledge.
Talk with older, wiser people.
Keep a notebook of knowledge.
I have tapes I recorded of my grandmother talking to me about her life and feelings on so many different and intriguing things.
I talked lots with my mother, pictured above at Bealtaine Cottage.
Mum learned from me too…we exchanged ideas a lot.
Staying at Bealtaine enabled Mum to develop her love for Earth too.
***Develop a close and binding relationship with Mother Earth, through a closer contact with Nature.
We are of the Earth and we will return to the Earth and are as much a part of the cycle of life as the seasons.
***Turn off the television, or even get rid of it, and nurture silence, peace, communicating, reading, listening…for all these will allow YOU to live instead of living life through a screen.
***Sow and plant food, flowers, trees…whatever your space allows and if space is limited, rent an allotment.
If allotments are in short supply or non-existent, pester your local council to provide them!
***Re-learn to love food!
Cooking, baking, tasting, canning, making wine and cordials, sharing…food is the one part of living everyone shares.
It is a great common denominator.
Food brings people together…it certainly used to!
Banish TV dinners!
Decorate your dining table, no matter how small, with a vase of seasonal greenery.
Use table mats and fine crockery for the beautiful food you make.
Light a candle on your table…celebrate the fruits of the Earth and reject the poisonous, tasteless garbage of the corporation!
***Practice kindness.
Kindness towards others and oneself.
I love the concept of “Random Acts of Kindness.”
***Our grandparents used their acquired skills to make their living environments easier and more beautiful…sewing, carpentry, kitting, painting…whatever you are good at, keep at it and teach others!
I have recently learnt to make willow baskets and will be able to pass this skill on.
***De-clutter your life!
This is a mantra I say to myself.
Less really is more.
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To be oneself.
To be with others.
To be happy.
To be quiet and still.
To simply be!
We have forgotten…be kind, be kinder.
We are oft times unkind to ourselves.
We can never fully know or understand what others are struggling with, yet we all know the value of a kind word, a caring call or a shared coffee.
Being kind opens the door to personal happiness.
Body wellness is centred around being kind to oneself…something many of us never really think about…especially if we have others to care for.
In the past I have often posed the question, “who cares for the carers?”
Kindness changes everything.
This was the abiding message in the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and yes, Rime is the correct spelling!
Being kind and casting a blessing on ‘slimy’ creatures, allowed the mariner to be freed from the corpse of the Albatross.
It is an epic poem and one worth reading, for it is a marvellous story and lesson.
