Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
I'm just strolling down through a woodland.
I'm still in Dorset at the moment and I've just discovered this deliciously delightful woodland behind the caravan site that we're staying on and as I'm walking along I am walking through the greenery,
The thick green carpet of bluebell leaves and when I see the bluebells and they cover the woodland floor it is one of the most magical sights in the world.
Now at the moment there are just a few tiny little heads of these delicate bluebells pushing up through the ground and the flowers are few and far between but in a few weeks this is going to be a haze of blue.
Walking in a bluebell wood is like walking through a mist of blue.
There is nothing like it.
It stops me in my tracks and I know that when the bluebells come out it's my absolute favourite time of year and it also marks the end for me of spring and the move and shift into summer.
So this is exciting to see the bluebells starting to arrive and today is a reflection on a course that I've been on.
I've been on what's called a writing pilgrimage and it's been run by my friend and over the course of a month we've been given writing prompts to reflect on and it's been a wonderful course.
I've really enjoyed it and one of the things I wrote,
We just marked the end of it today with an online call with everybody that's been on it.
One of the things we did today is we just read out something,
Something small short from what we'd written.
Now the truth is that whilst I'd been on this pilgrimage I hadn't responded to all the prompts,
I hadn't done my homework,
I hadn't done all the things that maybe I if I'd been in a different frame of mind I would have thought to myself I should have done but because it was held in such a gentle beautiful loving way it was ended up that we were a group of women,
Older women mainly,
Who were being held in a space where the truth is we could do what we liked and as I explained at the end of the call I said it feels as though I've been on this journey,
This pilgrimage and I might have been on the outskirts of the group and I might not have been engaged as fully as some but I had felt the sense of this group as we've moved along and as I was explaining that it really touched me deeply and profoundly that we are when we get together and we live from a heart-based place and we listen to others from that space which is what this group did with each other and we listened to women who were feeling a little bit upset or low and those that felt excited and free and those that hadn't done much writing and those that had written every day and we held the space and heard each and every one of us and as I flicked back through the bits that I had written I realised that for me what keeps coming up deeply for me in my world at the moment is the voice of older women,
The power of older women and making a stand or as I would say it holding the line for love in the world and I want to share what I wrote it's a very short little piece but this for me when I read it out to the group it stirred me and when I feel something like that I know that there's something in there for me to take note of so here's what I wrote I'm going to repeat that and I'll make sure it's put in notes as well but just listen to this and this is very much how I feel I am being called to engage with life in what is my latter part of my life the final third of my life as I probably will see it I am here to build community to enable the voices of women to be heard and to feel love and share love in the world to embody it and I'm going to do that not in a loud showy kind of way I'm going to do that one step at a time as best as I can in whatever way I can and here on Insight Timer is one of the ways I do that I'd love to know your reflections on this this idea of making a stand for for women for women's voices for making a stand holding the line for love and for peace in the world let me know your reflections and don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature
