Does your environment strengthen & inspire you?

I live in a city that is like a big natural energy power-station to my soul. This place is spirit-soaringly lovely. Considered one of the world’s most beautiful cities, nestled between the big blue Atlantic Ocean & towering granite mountains, exquisitely clothed in the planet’s most richly diverse floral kingdom. Ringed by rambling vineyards and white sand beaches, could it get more gorgeous? Oh yes.. and the humans emerge in abnormally beautiful varieties here too %-)

Lucky me, I’ve chosen to live in Cape Town, South Africa..at least for now (wild&wandering spirit appeased for a time).

From this southern tip of the African continent a story with an ancient lineage arose. In fact a story written into each cell of every person on this planet. Within the looping strands of our well-travelled DNA the human family has a common thread with a trackback to one tiny tribe of San people that gave rise to us all. No matter how different we may look from the original crew that started out on the modern human journey 60 000years ago :: whether you’re a 6′7 blonde blue eyed Scandinavian, a carrot-curled & freckled Irish lass, a strapping Maori or hardy Inuit chief every one of us came from one little family that survived cataclysm and began the extraordinary adventure that spans every continent.. and it all began here, at the bottom end of Africa. [BTW National Geographic have a fun way to discover where your genes have travelled by joining in the genome project]

This beautiful spot is also a wild and dangerous region, not just because of the Great White sharks that patrol the coast that occasionally mistake surfers for snacks, but most particularly for the violent crime, borne of frustration and disparity, poverty and learned helplessness.

South Africa is a microcosm of the world, balancing tentatively between the potential for outright paradise or abject ruin. All the global challenges that face our time can be found playing out here :perhaps writ small: but clearly within the diversity of cultures, creeds, languages, brutal haunting histories of hate, economic chasms that grow ever wider, environmental fragility, the strain of archaic systems of governace and education not keeping up with the accelerating frontier of innovation ..we get it all.. the world in one country. The best & the worst of it all.

From my current HQ, I can’t help but feel inspired. This isn’t a home to kick-back and be compacent in: there is a lot of family feuding, but also a lot of love that gives us hope to believe beyond the probable & predictable.

Revelling in the overflowing blessing of natural beauty helps me power-up. Giving fuel to my fire: to make a difference, to be an activist, to live gloriously and share the joy.

Where do YOU find your energy?

As we scour the globe for new sources of energy, make sure you know where your power comes from. Are you still getting it from dirty corrosive chemical fuels? Perhaps for you, from hanging out & laughing uproariously with friends; or maybe shaking out numb indifference by going out & making a difference to other people’s lives however small or wacky? Perhaps natural energy throbs its magic into you from a walk on the beach, in the forests, playing with your kiddies?

I heartily recommend finding your effortless source of power, refining the best way to get it – in it’s highest quality form – then, with the rampant enthusiasm of a puppy>> get it as often as you can! .. wherever in the world you happen to find yourself today..