What’s Happening?
After many years of creating a huge amount of informational content on this website, it’s time to take the site in a different direction (and after its completion in a couple of months, have a long rest and sleep). To leave some kind of legacy, and take time to heal after a decade of tragic and traumatic life events.
Most people these days (especially those this site is aimed at) want bite-sized information, not long complicated how-to posts. And in order to reach them, the site needs a huge overhaul and many posts need to be merged, simplified or even deleted.
Simplicity is the art of eliminating the unnecessary, so that the necessary may speak. Artist Hans Hofmann
So it’s time to simplify, merge, remove and edit, to reveal a more creative resource directory, rather than endless ‘how-to posts’ or ‘best of’ lists. Other sites do this, so it’s good to offer something fresh.
So over the next couple of months, this site is to become a beautiful, creative and helpful Resource Directory, rather than a ‘blog’. Important info will remain. And as ever, posts will have pretty art to inspire.
There will be a Gift Shop (with zero waste brands and good books). Plus links to cherry-picked recipes. The rest of the site will simply profile those who don’t get their voices seen or heard often in the media: hedgehog sanctuaries, dog-walking charities, seal and wildlife rescues, indie grocery stores, green banks etc.
This gives them some visitors (and volunteers/supporters). And means this site has less responsibility (it’s kind of become an encyclopaedia of information, that is simply too much to handle and keep updated).
The time has arrived to take this risk, even though it means smashing some of the ‘search engine rules’. But if not done, the site will continue to overwhelm, and likely will collapse (because I will!)
Life has not been kind the last few years, so with various life issues (and a pending move to a quiet slower pace of life, to begin healing), it’s important this site follows the same direction. So thanks for your patience over the next couple of months.
So let’s hope this is the right decision. It’s time to go with intuition. Once complete, the site will then just be maintained, and occasionally updated. And left alone!
Without inspiration, we’re not creating anything new. We’re just consuming and reproducing what already exists. The walk in nature isn’t separate from your work. It’s the very thing that makes your work worth doing and gives it its life force.
When we create from our highest place, we bring something into the world that hasn’t existed before, and bring more abundance and meaning into the world. Everything else is just spinning wheels. Nancy Perry