Hugs, tears, laughter. After the wind-stopped ferries, the sea is brushed steel; lochs and mountains filtered as if through muslin.
First spit of rain: no waterfalls on Mull this year; no snow on the peaks; rivers so low; no mud for the sand and house martins, soon back, to build nests.
Loch Lomond’s pewter distances catch the heart.
Then ahead, a car crash; abrupt re-entry into the sorrows of the world.
Samira Ahmed says we’re either collaborators or resistors. For change to happen, we need to resist: non-violently but firmly.
In London, Extinction Rebellion protestors are arrested for blocking roads. Never mind the multinationals, the tax-evading corporations, big industry, private bankers, pharmaceutical companies, heads of state with their disastrous policies.
In Paris, they mourn 800 years of cathedral, part-eaten by flame.
There is as much microplastic in a remote area of the Pyrenees as in a major city. We, all species, are breathing, drinking, eating it in. #REFUSE PLASTIC. If you do nothing else this year. If we don’t oppose it we are complicit. Or collaborators.
‘Earth is flat’ reads the graffiti on a traffic sign outside Glasgow.
Everywhere new leaves – 100 shades of green. New flowers – as if the first ever: windflowers (her face), lady’s smock, bluebells, cherry blossom.
Despite.
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