Climate Change

I made this felt picture today in response to Theme Thursday's Blog Action theme of Climate Change. You can't see it on this photo, but the picture is set inside a circle which in turn is inside a square. The circle and the square intertwine like knot work. The circle and square were made with wool that had been dyed in nettles. Assayya recently wrote:

The stinging nettle grows in places where the harmony and balance in the soil is disturbed. He purifies as it were the soil to which plants can grow again, who first disappeared. That makes the energy of the nettle in the emotional sphere. It purifies and makes the atmosphere back into balance from a give and take.

Using nettle dyed wool to encircle this picture seemed both symbolic that the earth is out of balance, but with acknowledging that we can each try to do our bit to restore that balance.

The heart of the picture depicts the earth, the sky and the sea. Each of which are effected by climate change. In the spirit of optimism I have also made a ship donning a Greenpeace flag :)

The above pictures are images from Greenpeace campaigns.

This picture was posted on Dot World.
It's not about Climate Change but it does say it all!

Love

Love is talent, the world love's metaphor.
Aflame, Octobers leaves adore the wind,
its urgent breath, whirl to their own death.
Not here, you're everywhere.

The evening sky
worships the ground, bears down, the land.
Yearns back in darkening hills. The night
is empathy, stars in its eyes for tears. Not here,

you're where I stand, hearing the sea, crazy
for the shore, seeing the moon ache and fret
for the earth. When morning comes, the sun, ardent,
covers the trees in gold, you walk

towards me,
out of the season, out of the light love reasons.

Carol Ann Duffy - UK Poet Laureate since 1/5/2009
To read more about Carol Ann Duffy and to hear her read this poem please click HERE.

Today is National Poetry Day. I love poetry. I love the moon. Carol Ann Duffy has skillfully merged both of these loves.

Tomorrow NASA will send a 'bomb laden missile to the moon'. Really. To read more about this lease click HERE.

I will be thinking of The Moon

Enough!

Last night Manya of Mythcolour posted about the destructive fire on a piece of land near her home. The land was home to a diversity of wildlife and sounds like a natural temple. The land is also a proposed land fill site.

In my time I have seen or heard of many listed buildings, sites of beauty and places attached to the strings of many hearts being snatched away and destroyed in the names of progress and development. Tactics to achieve this 'progress' and 'development' are often dirty and at times crimes against the laws of the land as well as nature, people and environment. Corruption stinks!

The photo's above are a visual testimony to what will, can and often does happen to further the will, greed and design of the minority. The pictures are not my own and the story is not isolated. If you are interested in the history and/or seeing more pictures of this once magnificent pier please click here. To see the starlings of the West Pier please click here.

But this pier, is an old story, its woeful demise happened a few years ago. The destruction of the natural habitat near Manya's home is happening right now. Please visit Manya to hear her story, lend support and if possible offer practical suggestions on how to save this strip of land from its imminent fate.

Please help.