Hello and welcome to day five of the pilgrimage and to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott.
As you know I'm walking the Mary and Michael energy currents in England following them from the tip of Cornwall all the way up to Norfolk and I've come as far as the River Fowl and something called Roundwood Hill Fort.
On my journey today I've passed through a few places where the Mary current lies Perennaworthal Church,
I've come through Deveran Church,
I was at Old Quay Church and now I'm down here at Roundwood Hill Fort and this is a wooded area now it would have dated back thousands of years old you can still see the sort of round circular ditch that surrounds it but now it's just a wood a woodland and I've seen squirrels running up trees heard the noise of the crows and other birds in the evening air and it's quite cool there's a cool breeze coming off the river I think the tide is turning and it's coming back in again and so it is quite a cool time of day but it's beautiful here stunningly peaceful similar feeling to some of the churches I've been in and it feels really fitting to end my day here and one of the things I've noticed today is the relationship between humans and buildings and humans and nature.
I was at the church at Perennaworthal this morning having a chat with someone who helps look after it and genuinely the the sense of serenity and peace in that building is extraordinary and he said well it's not the building he said it's the people the people are the ones that bring this sense of peace to the place and you know I run retreats and have run a retreat at a house in Weymouth in the UK and that house it's a Georgian house has got the most extraordinary feeling it's as though the walls ooze warmth compassion and respect and love and you think how can a building ooze that and I really get a sense that there's this interplay and relationship between us and buildings and us and the land and I've seen it today with footpaths yesterday all my foot well it seemed like all my footpaths yesterday many of my footpaths were overgrown or impenetrable but it was really tough going today there's a different relationship with them they're looked after they're used there's a sense that they're respected and loved and it has a different feeling so I'm really left with this wondering at the interaction and interplay between man and women of course the interplay between mankind and the natural world and mankind and buildings and man just mankind is a relationship we have and we can sense when something feels neglected or unloved whether it's land it's a building whether it's a person and I think we forget sometimes this interplay this relationship this to and fro and interaction of love that seems to happen when humans settle and tune in to that true nature and to themselves so that's what I'm left with today as I finish off my day five of the pilgrimage I've got a couple miles left to go just to completely finish it off but this is the spot I wanted to stop with you and share with you today
