Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
Here I am on the 22nd day of my pilgrimage walking towards Glastonbury,
Glastonbury Tor.
I'm following the energy lines of the Michael and Mary energy currents and I've been walking from Cornwall which is on the right southwest tip of England up to Glastonbury then on to Avebury and then maybe to Norfolk depending on time and my legs and how tired I am and today I'm about to reach Glastonbury and I can see the Glastonbury Tor on the very distinctive hillside in front of me.
It rises up and has been drawing me for the last 10 miles of my journey.
I keep catching glimpses of it and knowing that that is the destination and also I've known as I've walked a long that I've been walking in the footsteps of pilgrims.
Glastonbury Abbey which is just a ruin now used to be on a pilgrimage route and I had been walking today along a route that would have been taken by the pilgrims of old and it's been very special and I realised today something that has almost brought me to tears actually and I'll tell you why.
The very last part of my journey,
I'm only about three miles away from Glastonbury itself but I'm walking on a public footpath and when I looked on my map I could see that there was this square bit of water that I was about to walk around and I knew it was a nature reserve and I just thought oh well a bit of square water that's another another straight line drawn by man and you know I wasn't expecting much but the truth is I've I've been deeply touched by what I've seen because it it isn't a square well it might be a square bit of water but it's softened completely by a vast swaying yellow haze of reeds and there are different water channels I can see but the edges are softened and curved by the reeds and I can see birds on the water I've seen a bird of prey swooping looking for for food I suppose and I'm looking in one direction over this what this is what the Somerset Levels are meant to be like to me I just I cried when I saw it it was like I've been wandering yesterday it's like what what are these vast tracts of land that are so green and flat and monotonous what were they actually meant to be like and I don't have to try and use my imagination anymore because right in front of me today there's this tiny pocket of marshland which for me is like a breath of fresh air it's what this place is meant to be like and surrounding it I can see a variety of of trees sort of enclosing this area and it doesn't look square I mean it might be it might be it might have started square as a piece of water but everything is softened by the foliage by the trees and the branches that are just starting to come into leaf now in these early stages of spring and then if I turn my back to that I can see once again the green flat arable fields there's a straight long drainage channel I can see the contrast it's like that's what it's like now as I look towards this flat green landscape of field after field after field and then I turn my back on it and I see this extraordinary beauty of the yellows and browns of the reeds as they sway in the breeze and for me it might seem that Glastonbury Glastonbury is the the place to plug in and nourish my soul and I think what I'm learning and I feel really tearful again now is I just feel the beauty of this place and I just feel that nature is so nourishing in her own right and as I get back in touch with the land and feel the land I can feel it it makes more sense for me that we respect the land and we allow the land to breathe yesterday I was walking through a landscape that felt suffocated this is a landscape that breathes and there is incredible beauty in it so what a gift I thought Glastonbury was going to be the peak of my journey today but it's proved not to be the case it's this beautiful nature reserve with the reeds swaying and the pools of water reflecting the reeds and the the grey sky and the birds that I can see on the water and I've seen flying around this for me has been a treasure trove of an experience
