Earthquaker Issue 101
As part of the planning group for the Earthcare Gathering, I’ve been thinking a lot about what sort of holding is needed to help us face the Earth crisis.
As a community, we have a wealth of political tactics and interpersonal skills to draw on; however, there is no certain knowledge of what will work to bring the future we want, or how it really felt to live close to the land before the pursuit of meeting our basic needs became inextricably tied up with exploitation on a global scale. In many ways, what we have to face is uncertainty – a gap.
The Welsh word for ‘gap’ is ‘bwlch’. It is also the word for gap in the geographical sense, the dip between two mountains. There is a bwlch above my house that I am trying to get to know. It is a place where I test my perception and that I often go to when my ability to be in kinship with others feels stretched to breaking. It is a place which is open enough to allow me to consider it is possible that I may be deeply mistaken.
Here are some ways I have been looking at this place, a series of fragments which give a suggestion of a picture too full to see all at once.
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Ailish Carroll-Brentnall