Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and It's a beautiful although very cold morning as I make my way up on to Dartmoor For my morning walk.
The sun is shining.
There's a bit of a grey cloud,
But I've got my back to it But there's like a northerly wind It's very very cold I've put my coat on I've got a hat on and I'm just gonna brace myself for when I dive into the wind It's like diving into icy water because it's so exposed up on Dartmoor.
I'm on a Gateway at the moment with a wall sheltering me,
But any moment now,
I'm going to be diving into the Cold wind that is Dartmoor and reacquainting myself with my morning walk After my pilgrimage and today is a really important day yesterday was so misty here And and there's so many things I needed to Practically do today feels like a bit of breathing space and I've got a really important appointment when I left To go on my pilgrimage.
I went to the labyrinth that I built up on Dartmoor It's just made out of stones in a little secret snicket that hardly anybody if anybody would visit And I just need to go back there today to give thanks thanks for the pilgrimage gratitude for being safe on my pilgrimage and Just gratitude to be able to come home and return home So that's that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna go through this gate now up onto Dartmoor feel the chill and march my way to the labyrinth and it feels like I've I've got a meeting with an old friend.
I'm so looking forward to seeing her again Here I am this is my little magic corner of Dartmoor There's a gate here and I did see somebody in the field over the gate but the the walls here they come to a point like as a triangle point and The walls are absolutely covered in thick moss and there's a woodland over one wall and then a hedgerow with tall trees on it and then a field over that other hedgerow But this just feels Sacred here,
It's my little it's my little grove my little Celtic grove and I've just Mended the circle the animals Roam up here.
They they're a sheep and Well,
It's many sheep really there's cattle and horses,
But you wouldn't really get cattle and horses down here It's mainly the sheep come down here.
And as they've been grazing they've knocked some of these small rocks and stones out of place,
So I've mended it and Reconstructed it and Yeah,
Just walked it and thanked it It feels It feels like such a blessing to have been on the pilgrimage and It feels such a blessing To have created my own little ritual as I set out and some of the rituals and Gratitude and thanks that I was giving to the plants and the trees and the animals and the landscape as I walked I just feel so Strongly drawn To the recognition that we are so much more Than Then we think we are and The life that I lead Which is not usually a pilgrimage,
You know,
It's just a regular life with things that go wrong and cars that need fuel and An old elderly mother that needs support Old dog that's coming right to the end of his life Bills to pay confusion over my business and what I feel drawn to do next that really does Light me up from the inside out all of this is the life I wade through Nearly every day and I think the pilgrimage has just given me that space to connect with something that feels more real than the labyrinth just walking the labyrinth and feeling Rooted again Grounded again after just returning yesterday where everything felt so discombobulating And I suppose the You know for me Bringing What it's not even bringing the pilgrimage into my everyday life,
I think it's about Maybe it's about seeing through my everyday life seeing through Some of the nonsense that I create that I think is important and actually settling back into what really is important because when I when I walk and I feel connected to the landscape That's when I feel nourished and that's for me to remember moving forward
