Wild at Home Week
Belonging to Place:
Day 01 - Seeing
Who are the wild beings already here with you?
Prefer to read? Got you covered!
Seeing prompt (under 15 min):
Sit somewhere you can see outside - window, doorstep, garden, balcony - for just five minutes. Preferably with no phone or devices to distract you. Be fully present.
Write or sketch a quick list: who else lives here? Birds, mammals, insects, plants pushing through, fungi under bushes, spiders on the fence post..
Don't worry about scientific or even common names - brown bird with red on their wings, blue butterfly, small wasp. Just notice who is present. You can add those you can’t see right now, but have seen, and know share your space too.
This is an opportunity to slow down and focus your whole being on seeing.
It does not matter how long or short your list is - either way it will grow over time. I have lived here for 20 years, and I am always, always discovering new friends I share my space with.
Compassion, including self compassion, and empathy expand when we really see others, recognising that they share the same spark of life, that they are made of the very same stardust as we are.
Even if we see them as a creepy crawly (I mean cockroaches and slugs are not my favourite), they have a place in the great web of life, and are worthy of being seen
🌿Wondering prompt to carry today:
Who are my non-human neighbours — plant, animal, mineral, fungal? What wild beings share my place?
🌿Wise Words
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
🌿Community drop:
Post your list or a quick sketch in the community space. I want to know your wild neighbours.
Making a simple, low-stakes sketchbook
