by Jane Smith | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog
For it is important that awake people be awake” William Stafford, ‘A Ritual to Read to Each Other In a way, this is just another blog post about resisting the badger cull. But I don’t want to focus on us resisters – today I’m more...
by Jane Smith | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog
This week I’m standing in for a friend who’s away on holiday and who puts out water and some food nightly for a local family of badgers. It’s a ‘baby-sitting’ job that I appreciate on so many levels – the chance to do a favour for a...
by Jane Smith | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly … Human beings come out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive Gary Snyder,...
by Jane Smith | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog
When you see violence, greed and narrow-mindedness in the fullness of its power, walk straight into the heart of it, remaining open to the sky and in touch with the earth Shambala Warrior Mind Training In the centenary year of women’s suffrage it might be...
by Jane Smith | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog
Last night I was at a meeting in Nantwich, organized by Cheshire Wildlife Trust, where the speaker was a PC from Cheshire Police whose presentation was about wildlife crime in the county. The opening lines of her talk were: “If people have questions about trail...
by Jane Smith | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog
I … cannot understand how the ‘badger lobby’ seem not to mind at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an overpopulation of badgersPrince Charles It’s really not like me to quote the royal...
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