No action should be undertaken without aim, or other than in conformity with a principle confirming L I F E

Since humans have existed we have done so relying on the five elements - earth, air, water, fire and ether. It's really been in the past 100 years that western culture and 'progress' have separated millions of people from the energetic forces which nourish and sustain us, especially in cities; the artificial substitutes (air conditioning to cool and heat; gas which may be the only flame one sees, water from taps, earth is under concrete, and ether is interrupted by microwave and 4G-5G electro-magnetic radiation).  Light pollution prevents the night skies being visible, concrete jungles are inhospitable to most fauna, flora and fungi and, through disconnection from and to Nature,  people can no longer recocgnise what is a complete ecological system.

ONE ASPECT OF WILDING is  designing so the five elements are central and intrinsic to L I F E.

The world's main resources for construction, namely steel, sand and timber have been depleted almost to the point of non-existence. Yet, the competitive practices of exploitation and nonsensical 'endless growth' continue, in spite of innumerable warnings of the end is nigh.

Yes, humans need shelter which is built. However, the design of dwellings and surroundings must include the five elements to prevent the insidious and increasing social, physical and emotional ills which affect the majority of western culture countries.

Designing for peace and tranquility, self-sufficiency, using vernacular architecture and locally available resources with community at heart is the start to taking control of our own lives.

Thank you to Charlie Mackesy for his infinite wisdom, tenderness and reminders of our responsibilities as custodians of this precious planet we call home.

We are part of Nature and always have been - we breathe the same oxygen as our fellow fauna provided by the flora upon which we rely. Our connections are at the psychic and molecular levels;    our souls are intertwined with the cosmos and the lives of all who have been here before us and those yet to come.

Breathe and live the words.... peace and love, kindness and joy, gratitude and abundance, compassion and laughter, curiousity and pleasure, grace and bliss, beauty and excitement, vulnerability and passion.

Being in you zone of tenderness is powerful. Life-changing. Awesome. And being wild.