Story Info
Story Info
Noemi Hopf
Iraklion, Crete
2013
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
We had to change our plans a little bit… But we created just before living a nice ritual on the beach we stayed at (Livadi Beach, Iraklia, Greece), representative for all the littered beaches we saw and the Mediterranean Sea that got hurt by us by all the litter it holds in its dark depths.
Saturday early morning, the sun even started rising. We (Urs and me) started to collect things from the beach, litter, trash, as well as shells and stones, all things that the Mediterranean Sea left last night on the beach. While collecting we were both in our way saying thank you, praying, singing for the Sea, that holds in its womb so much of our leftovers and litter.
We were in our prayers with the Sea itself, this great goddess with its depths and mystery, as well as all the living being calling the Mediterranean Sea home as dolphins, different fishes, squids, mussels, crabs etc. and all the smaller and more inaccessible beaches a little outside of the main area (those there not cleaned because of the tourists) that were overloaded with leftovers and also litter that gets brought from the waves.
It was a very quiet and peaceful atmosphere spending the sunrise with the Sea and its beings—and making a radical-joy-for-hard-times-bird for honoring their beauty also in the fact of getting hurt by humans once and once again. It gave us both a feeling of being involved and connected in a bigger network—and also having a responsibility for the whole being a part of it.
Nature is just so beautiful and also if it again and again shows us that we cannot disturb the deep beauty that is within, still it remembers us to take care of it and of its as delicate as strong and powerful beauty. Lots of love and all the best for your precious work! Noemi and Urs
We had to change our plans a little bit… But we created just before living a nice ritual on the beach we stayed at (Livadi Beach, Iraklia, Greece), representative for all the littered beaches we saw and the Mediterranean Sea that got hurt by us by all the litter it holds in its dark depths.
Saturday early morning, the sun even started rising. We (Urs and me) started to collect things from the beach, litter, trash, as well as shells and stones, all things that the Mediterranean Sea left last night on the beach. While collecting we were both in our way saying thank you, praying, singing for the Sea, that holds in its womb so much of our leftovers and litter.
We were in our prayers with the Sea itself, this great goddess with its depths and mystery, as well as all the living being calling the Mediterranean Sea home as dolphins, different fishes, squids, mussels, crabs etc. and all the smaller and more inaccessible beaches a little outside of the main area (those there not cleaned because of the tourists) that were overloaded with leftovers and also litter that gets brought from the waves.
It was a very quiet and peaceful atmosphere spending the sunrise with the Sea and its beings—and making a radical-joy-for-hard-times-bird for honoring their beauty also in the fact of getting hurt by humans once and once again. It gave us both a feeling of being involved and connected in a bigger network—and also having a responsibility for the whole being a part of it.
Nature is just so beautiful and also if it again and again shows us that we cannot disturb the deep beauty that is within, still it remembers us to take care of it and of its as delicate as strong and powerful beauty. Lots of love and all the best for your precious work! Noemi and Urs
Iraklion, Crete
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