How can we bring everything together?
October 4, 2023
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A walk to organise our way forward. Moreton on the Marsh, Gloucestershire
A walk in development with questions
We start at the old station site.
There are ghosts here, a plaque to my parents and vivid childhood memories of rust and broken glass, all long since swept away.
Now it’s a pristine place enjoyed by walkers, cyclists and a group of pink and purple-clad joggers.
What keeps us open?
Change is upon us.
Every moment something old fades away and something new emerges.
As we grew up here, we were always clear, we are the change, that now feels strange.
What gets us thinking?
Old and new meet.
In the Saturday-morning fields where I first walked to work through marsh, damp and mud.
Now, there’s a fresh frosted landscape with crystals on the fence-posts and icicles tinkling in the streams.
Our path may be mapped out, but it is moments like this we seek (not the tyranny of story).
How can we make the most of these morning moments?
Through old, familiar ways.
We may have walked these paths many times, yet these moments keep us open and the questions they inspire invite collaboration.
What can we explore together?
Meaning comes from context.
We stand in an ancient land, a vantage point from untold ages past. Yet still we are connected.
There’s no distance of time, or place or culture that cannot be spanned.
What is it that connect us?
Sometimes change sneaks up on us.
A blanket of cloud is pulled swiftly over us. Light is sucked from the sky and colours seep into the land.
It’s not always so easy to tell what’s happened
Posing questions can bring illumination.
What is the problem?
Change can’t be avoided.
The rest of our walk in on harsher terrain.
Our memories are shadows that linger in the air, but the mystery’s been trampled and the ancient woods laid bare.
The land has moved on. How shall we respond?
Where can we find meaning?
To sit, with pen and notebook, is an act of defiance in these restless times.
But here, I’m cloaked by the gathering dusk and the secrets I hold inside.
So I breathe in these long-gone moments and wait for the lingering light to fire the imagination…
…before I can even stand an owl calls into the night and something stirs…
In our walks we look for meaning in connection.
What are our big questions?
A walk to organise our way forward. Moreton on the Marsh, Gloucestershire
The Cornish Celtic Way Day one: Who do we want to be? Starting out Up into the hills In light morning rain. An old
We come to connect. To make another start. Every day is a new beginning, it’s own starting point…
A walk in development is a walk in uncertainty, a journey into the unknown. Sometimes we’ll walk for hours, on hard and stony paths. Then suddenly there’s a moment, when we see the world as if for the first time and just as its always been. These are the moments we choose to guide us, to keep us on the path of development…
A walk in development with a focus on questions that help us identify ‘who are we? and ‘who do we want to be?’
A walk in development exploring new directions
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