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I enter into the landscape a stranger.
Not much here is familiar.
I do not recognise plants and trees, although I have learnt alot from those here at SEEDS.
The maps here are partial and do not show every feature, nor every path or trail.
I walk in a landscape without labels.
I try to find out how to read the landscape without the tools and markers that usually support me in the UK. The paths end without warning. The paths barely trace a shape and brush over the land without much care.
Tread lig… Continue

More changes to the land and more exciting building projects....Bruce Hooke started work on the new gateway for Earthdance. Check out the photo gallery and get along this week to help out....

It’s the end of the first week and we gather under the trees to harvest some of what has been learnt and shared. This is a summary of offerings organised by way of some of the themes that seem to be emerging.

THE LAND IS CHANGING
Over lunch earlier in the week, I heard someone say that the land is changing. It is changing as it becomes energised by attention and focus upon it and by the inspiration that it is giving us. Melinda likened the co-existence of Suprapto and Andrew’s workshops like a… Continue

I feel delicate entering in this space…witnessing others in witnessing and moving…wondering if writing, filming, drawing or making a mark is what is needed…and I think about my body as witness and archive…an archive that you can’t access here…and so I rely on words… words that are just a small part of what happened…and that tell one story of many…

GIVING THE BODY TIME TO SPEAK
Half the group are watching and holding the space. The other half of the group is moving with eyes closed, following th… Continue