Silence

A lot has happened since I last wrote on this blog. After we’d spent three months on retreat in the Spanish Pyrenees, we decided we wanted to live there permanently. The community we wanted to start in South-West England wasn’t very likely to happen soon and we urgently needed a place to settle down which would work for both my partner and myself, and for us together. The place in the north of Spain seems to have all that is needed: simplicity, silence, beauty, wilderness and remoteness. It also offers a challenge. Leading a simple life is the only sensible answer I can personally think of with regard to the acuteness and extent of the present ecological crisis. I’d always thought that one day, one day, I would turn to nature and live with the trees, the animals, the rocks and all other beings. Now the opportunity is presented to me, I am taking it with both hands.