Reflecting On A Lifetime of Love for the Earth

October 2020. I was finishing my second masters dissertation.

I had just done my second masters degree in a row - I had done two in two years. I was so tired. I would sit down to work and then cry and then work. I was physically shaking for the last six weeks of that dissertation 

But it was beautifully done and I got such a high mark and it was so beautifully organised

And all I could think about was my love for the earth.

As that’s why I did it all. And that’s why I do it all. And that’s why I do everything I do.

I fell in love with the earth as a little girl. I danced barefoot on the earth. 

I have pictures of me hugging trees as a child. I have pictures of me climbing into trees as a child. I climbed fir trees.

I have pictures of me hugging trees as an adult too. I talked to the sheep as a child. But as an adult I sung to the cows. During Covid to keep them all company. I have sung to deer too. I sang once to an empty field and all of the deer arrived. Deer are my spirit animal. I once went to a field in Guildford while I was trying to pass my probation and all of the deer arrived there too. My friends said they had never seen them there before

One day I was deep in the woods on my own. Then I saw a wolf. I thought I was going to die. 

Except it wasn’t a wolf. It was a huge huge deer probably male. It sprang across my path. It ascended a huge cliff vertically. Doing almost vertical jumps every time

I hope by now you know I do it all for the earth

I passed my probation for the earth

I did the crazy things that I did in the last year for the earth

I research in my evenings and weekends for the earth

And when I dance, I dance for the earth too - I hope

Thank you

P.s. I have dragon fruit on my chin