Diary: 'the long game'
My new passion is wandering around with my partner, getting to know plants. We are overwhelmed with the scent of privet and meadowsweet, delighted by the delicacy of hop clover and Yorkshire fog, surprised by vetch’s black seed pods, enthused by the possibility of acanthus (bear’s breeches) healing our house-mate’s dislocated shoulder.
Oh, the wonder of the Flora Incognita app.
We’re trying to develop a worldview of being in a peer-relationship with other beings, unlearning our anthropocentric, individualistic, mechanistic mindset.