28. The power of tender, loving attention and care

Recorded in my garden with the wind and the birdsong in this episode I speak on:

• How tender, repeated acts of attention and care is what brings about change (and how they are disregarded by our Society)

• How acts of care follow on from gifting our loving attention to those that matter to us: “Attention is the beginning of devotion” - Mary Oliver

• The internal and external ripple effects of tender, loving attention and care towards people and planet

Mentioned in the podcast

• Poem: Mindful by Mary Oliver

• Episode 26. Animate Earth, inanimate words: Why I don't like the term 'Nature Connection'

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Image: Emmali Millard via Unsplash
Music: Magic Winter by Serge Quadrado Music on Pixabay
Birdsong: Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos recorded at Cushendall, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland Azens, XC905249. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/905249.