God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

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God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

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To paraphrase Orwell, good books tell you something new, the best books tell you something you already know to be true. I got to meet them both, and I embarrassingly fan-girled as I told Isabella what an inspiration she had been.

The 9 Step Negativity Detox is a powerful series that will teach you the nine simple steps to free you from the unnecessary causes of negativity in your life. I opened this book a self centred atheist who facetiously cast doubt on global warming and of nature or technology I would take the latter everytime. One of the most enthused sections sees Goldsmith visit David Waters, the man who reintroduced the Great Bustard bird to England. Of course, the two elements of the book – the healing of nature and the healing of the self – are intertwined.Benedict Macdonald, Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Global Conservation A heartbreaking yet ultimately inspiring memoir of the personal spiritual odyssey. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. He thinks about reincarnation, impermanence, the soul, but more than anything else he thinks about nature. BENEDICT MACDONALD– Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. These products and ideas might sound good, but there are cheaper and more wildlife-friendly alternatives.

In the latest episode of my podcast, Rewilding the World, I speak to Andreia Pawel from ORKCA (Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area), in southern Namibia. The ultimate cliché of rich, perfect , beautiful, privileged people torn apart by grief and their glorified learnings from it . Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Iris, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his Somerset farm. His friend and advising naturalist, Chris Couldrey joins him on the bank and offers a gentle conversation about the restoration of the farm’s newt ponds.The rewilding movement must aim to better integrate sympathetic groups, including people living in cities, and support a shift in access and ownership over the future of wild Britain. Of course, many Indigenous people and spiritual leaders the world over have known that nature is the great healer for millennia, effortlessly weaving concepts of reincarnation, death-following-life and Samsara into the fabric of storytelling. British naturalists and rewilding buffs may be aware of much of the ecological ground Goldsmith covers.

Iris had indeed lost her life, the buggy she was driving having flipped and landed on top of her, pinning her to the ground. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Anyone that has suffered the death of a young friend or family member will recognise the motions Goldsmith goes through: the ‘if onlys’, obsessing over details, curiously noting preternatural elements – every one inexplicably filled with significance and pathos, the outer body experience that somehow your human story line doesn’t fit within the world around you.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. As the book continues, Ben explains how nature played a huge part in his grieving and recovery process, planning ways of rewilding the land around him. Huge thanks to Tandem Collective for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book. That it became a journey of ‘restoration of nature’ served as a beautiful counter balance to the tragedy and despair of his loss.

finding incredible meaning in Iris's short life and the connection with nature he experienced after her sudden death. Another suggests he visits a medium, a middle-aged woman who lives in Parsons Green who seems able to converse with Iris’s spirit.Gavanndra Hodge * The Daily Telegraph * Simply the most powerful and profound words I’ve ever read on grief.



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