Tending to Life

I'm Jo.

In recent years, as the human world went mad and my human body aged, my soul just kept saying, less... less... no, even less, until I actually listened. Until I stripped it all back to find what makes a difference to my heart and my life.

What's left is this: life matters; life is a treasure, and tending to it is a sacred act.

That's it really.

So this is what I do here. I document what it looks like to tend to life with love, on a difficult planet, in my third act. That can look like:

• My home and the garden as a small sanctuary for my family, and all living things that find their way here.

• Mornings with my cat and coffee before the others get out of bed.

• A walk across the stream and through the woods.

• The grief and the beauty and the ordinary things. The soul of a planet I believe in protecting.

• Simple things that bring moments of peace.

The home I want to create and live in looks like peace for everyone (human and more than human) in it. Peace; rest; resources; contentment; acknowledgment of darkness and grief; freedom from abuse; freedom to be alive and present. I have a secret dream that if enough of us build our little safe places, they’ll link up and change the world. So I’m here, paying attention, and bringing that small sanctuary into being.

If that sounds like your kind of thing too, you're welcome here.