18/08/2026
It’s so simple to restart your conversation with nature… but it does require you to create the space, intention and attention. Feeling joy for the weekend away with fellow rewilding community peoples and the land in which we were able to share these experiences on.
Over our weekend, I remembered how much I love making things - fire by friction for the first time, cordage, coal-fired clay pots, coal-cooked potatoes, pizza from a Rocket Oven, and how the words of the great David Whyte and Mary Oliver just land so deeply in my body. I remembered how much I long for community who are in search of the same need for closeness to nature and how watching the sun rise really sets your day up differently. It was a time of falling in awe again.
In the forest I met and spent a good hour with the most beautiful Grandmother Eucalypt whose branches were like octopus tentacles… some up in the air, some snaking their way to the ground, almost as if to hold her above-ground body stable.
I imagined her branch system was mirroring her roots. As above, so below.
And her energy stayed with me all weekend, and upon returning home, the biggest waves of grief over my Nanna who passed 5 years ago was finally able to make its way through.
The carefully and lovingly tended land with the old Oak held us all and gave us the space to be whatever we needed to be in those moments.
So special.
And, it’s so easy to just revert back to what you always do when you get back into the city, into contact with the mundane. And how can you bring some of these learnings into everyday - so that you can keep splitting yourself and your time between all the parts of life you want to experience.
But it feels necessary to keep moving towards the things that bring the greatest connection and surrendering the things that move you away from your path.