Patch 118

PATCH MAKER:

LOCATION: London

MESSAGE:I was a day walker from St Albans to Harpenden.  It was such an honour to wear the coat for a few miles knowing how far it will go.  Thank you for this wonderful initiative.

I saw a stag beetle fly over my Catford garden this summer and my hopes and fears come with.

The word is from this poem by Jane Hirschfield:

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs – all this resinous, unretractable earth.

I hope there is still time for optimism.  Carry it with you to COP.

Thank you for the journey.