Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
Oh my goodness,
This is such a peaceful time of the day.
I'm up at a place called Cuckoo Ball which is the remnants of an ancient burial cairn and a lot of this burial cairn has been taken away over the last hundreds of years and probably it would have been quite a significant structure.
But now all that's really left are the two distinct stones that are left,
The two stones that are planted in the ground.
One of them is as tall as a person and the other is a sort of semi-circular shape,
Probably about four foot tall and they stand next to each other.
And I'm just looking at the sun behind me which is starting to set behind the hillside and also looking around me at the different people out and about,
Mainly walking dogs.
I can see them across Dartmoor and it feels very still.
After a period of strong winds and rain this actually feels very peaceful being up here.
And my theme today is making a stand for love.
I'm experimenting with a friend,
We are exploring creating a podcast and we've been having a few conversations,
Practice conversations,
Both of us very much enthused by older women,
The wisdom of older women and also the wisdom of the inside out understanding or also known as the three principles.
Both of us are very drawn to those things.
And one of the snippets of the conversation that we had yesterday as we were practicing how we might engage with this podcast is that she came up with a really beautiful quote and the part of it that stuck with me,
Feels resonant for me,
Was of older woman and she was talking about herself but she used this phrase of making a stand for love,
Making a stand for love.
And you know when you hear something and it sort of chimes within you,
There's a truth in what you've heard and it wasn't my intellect going,
Well that sounds like a good idea.
It was something deeper within me that felt vibrating,
Vibrational,
Like a chime of a bell.
There was a trueness and truth in what she said for me and it has had me reflect on this walk.
So I've walked up the hill,
I'm enjoying the golden warmth of the sunshine as it caresses the copper brown of the bracken which has been dying back over the winter and it just gives it that wonderful golden warmth at the end of the day.
And making a stand for love is something that feels so important for me.
It's so easy for me sometimes to feel helpless,
Particularly in all the things that are going on in the world.
When I listen to current affairs or when I engage with or see the way that some people express opinions and communicate with each other,
I feel quite helpless,
I feel quite sad.
And I can easily fall into a sense of overwhelm.
And it's when I'm in that space that I often think to myself,
What am I supposed to do?
Like all this stuff is going on around me and I feel like I have no power or influence over what's going on.
And yet the phrase that my friend came up with resonated and it kind of cuts through for me all of that doubt and sense of I'm not good enough and what can I do and I'm helpless.
Making a stand for love,
Well that is something I can do.
And making a stand for love,
Well what does that mean?
I'm going to continue this rather than rush it in the last sort of minute of this five minutes in nature.
I'm going to continue that conversation.
So it'll be a part two to this conversation.
And that's related to what is it to make a stand for love?
