Steph Bradley's blog

If Nature is your teacher your soul will awaken...

... I open an e mail from Klaudia van Gool in Transition Liskeard and read the quotation from Goethe at the bottom of her signature and think that it could well sum up the thing I would choose to share about what I have learnt for myself along this walk, and would go further, for not only does a walk with nature as teacher awaken the soul, it releases spirit too, to meet with soul, and dance with her against the canvas of your being.

I awaken early from my mattress on the floor of the yurt which I share with two singer songwriters and a storyteller in the performers’ yurt village at Embercombe and head off showerwards in the blazing sunshine.

Today I crossed the Devon border; it was a good feeling, though it has rained non stop on me for 20 miles it still couldn’t stop the feeling of elation I felt as I walked a quarter of a mile along the A38 to make a bit of a shortcut just at the point at which the welcome to Devon sign is displayed, just before it crosses the M5 just north of Uffculme.

I wake up to a beautiful sunny day and Lokabandhu and I exchange memories of the yatra (walking meditation) we did six or seven years ago. I hear his tale on transition Glastonbury and the core group folding; the last big event and the conflict that put everyone off doing another and how though the working groups continue there isn’t as yet energy to restart the core group or equivalent.

 Peace to this Place

I wake up cosy in Mark’s little white caravan and read the wise words pinned on the wall:

“Security is not the things we have, but the things we can live without”