TOWARDS ALBAN HEFIN: EVENING LIGHT, FLOWERING PLANTS
by contemplativeinquiry
An evening walk on 10 June, around 7pm. We are approaching the summer solstice, Alban Hefin in OBOD Druidry. It is a late moment in the rising year. We are in a now familiar Georgian neighbourhood, where I often focus on sky and buildings. But here my attention is on the earth, and patches of green growth a little recessed from the kerbside. What draws me is a strong sense of light enabling life, relatively late in the day, touching the plants to ensure their thriving.
Flowering plants appeared quite late in this history of our planet, less than a hundred million years ago. Over time they helped to shape the habitat in which we have appeared and made our home. Seemingly fragile, they have, over time, exerted a tremendous collective power. It seems only right to honour them and recognise what they have done for us. May we preserve the habitat on which they and we depend.
contemplativeinquiry 
Midsummer blessings… I’m interested and pleased to follow your adaptation to a new environment that appears to be less rural than you were used to. It’s a wonderful example of how as Druids we can find our Spirituality in every landscape. Living in a remote location and only occasionally visiting urban areas it always shocks me how I try to pull away and reject where I find myself until home again. Your contemplations are reassuring…thank you.
Thanks for your comment. Midsummer blessings to you!
Im always heartened by your contemplations on a new environment so different to your previous place. Living remotely I always feel my resistance to urban areas when I must inhabit them. Thank you – there is always hope as a Druid as we can always find our Spiritually in any landscape.
I have been heartened by your contemplations in a new environment as living remotely I find myself resisting urban areas when I must visit them. You show how our Druidry adapts to find the Spiritual in a any landscape. Thank you.