Story Info
Story Info
Harriet Lock Sams
Cumbria, England, UK
2014
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
Here are a few photos of our morning. We wandered down the River Cairn, noting an abandoned agricultural vehicle hire depot, which is now a graveyard for decaying tractors and combine harvesters. There we saw enormous orchids growing wild! Further downstream we saw where a secluded glade is threatened by a new housing development right at its boundary. We noted a fallen oak and grieved its passing. We also noted how the entire landscape was changed by quarrying to make an enormous embankment for the Carlisle to Newcastle railway to pass over the river. We noted how, although the forest looked established, it could not be more than 150 years old, and that the land we walked upon was once deep underground before being quarried.
One Exchanger sat on a log across the river and felt a powerful message of how the flow of energy of the river will loop and meander around and over any obstacle. A message for life. We then made the RadJoy bird out of branches from the fallen oak, and Himalayan balsam which is an invasive weed across the riverbanks. We were together at the exact point of the solstice reaching its zenith in the skies. We give thanks for our beautiful morning!
Here are a few photos of our morning. We wandered down the River Cairn, noting an abandoned agricultural vehicle hire depot, which is now a graveyard for decaying tractors and combine harvesters. There we saw enormous orchids growing wild! Further downstream we saw where a secluded glade is threatened by a new housing development right at its boundary. We noted a fallen oak and grieved its passing. We also noted how the entire landscape was changed by quarrying to make an enormous embankment for the Carlisle to Newcastle railway to pass over the river. We noted how, although the forest looked established, it could not be more than 150 years old, and that the land we walked upon was once deep underground before being quarried.
One Exchanger sat on a log across the river and felt a powerful message of how the flow of energy of the river will loop and meander around and over any obstacle. A message for life. We then made the RadJoy bird out of branches from the fallen oak, and Himalayan balsam which is an invasive weed across the riverbanks. We were together at the exact point of the solstice reaching its zenith in the skies. We give thanks for our beautiful morning!
Cumbria, England, UK
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