Illustrations of cultural and social entities (us!) entirely enclosed within wider enklavene. These are keys that help us hold connections.
We’re living in liminal times.
We experience this all around us—the potential to meet our challenges, to grow and evolve culturally. While, at the same time, crises push our edges ever more to extremities.
This post is a space for some grace with all that is!
This enklavene is through the Julian Alps. Pause and browse and climb through the clouds. Be complete in the wild, jagged and broken landscapes!
At solstice, the veil between ourselves and greater expanses is thin.
in the far north, or south, we can walk in 24-hour light.
Our enclosures expand. Beyond ourselves. Pause in the solstice light here.
We are in and of our world.
In this enklavene breath in the immensity, sagas in landscapes and ourselves, with Walt Whitman.
Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
What widens us, asks Walt Whitman as wonders, sights and sounds roll off his writing into me.
This enklavene is the seas and water all around us, our approach to the oceans and the spaces these resonate within us.
Lambs, lambs, lambs. For spring, for peace and for the life and vitality of the newborn extending light. Enjoy!
“In your heart may there be a sanctuary”
This enklavene is from the clarity of spring, birth and the stillness it brings.
An invitation to listen with all our senses. To the sounds of the sunset, to other creature’s homes
Pause and listen for sanctuary.
This enklavene is a set of fractals. We zoom in from the bottom of the mountain and the mini-cliff-edged sheep (she looks perfectly at ease!) to the mountain cliffs. And then to the rocks on top.
There are sets of repeating patterns all around us. Importantly, we create them too. It’s a foundation of change.
From the wilds of the far northern Atlantic coasts. The near impossible, being alone and deeply connected to humanity, comes viscerally alive in the wind.
Bring diverse pieces together and the new can emerge.
This New Year’s enklavene arose from stumbling across earth, fire, water and rock coming together. That diversity created the heart.
This is a photo series on our ongoing evolution.
The series is monthly enklavene: illustrations of cultural and social entities (us!) entriely encolsed within, and creating, wider enclaves.
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.