Author: joeholtaway

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share - Maya Angelou Read audio of November/December if you may prefer to listen... Being arrested, spiritual support and legal observing with Extinction rebellion  and faith activist group DANCE, including A [...]

  The most important thing we can do for our world is to listen inside ourselves to hear the sound of the earth crying; healing starts here. Thich Nhat Hanh Continuation of the Kirby Misperton Protection camp (fracking) story and a revisit to songs and interview with KM resident James Mason/ Thich Nhat Hanh inspired [...]

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.” Rainer Maria Rilke (Book of Hours)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJqxda0hXk   A quote from the German poet Rilke to go with the new season and new playlist from Canadian music channel Foxx's Frequency - 'Songs for September'; drawn from many international songwriters; amongst them my Let [...]

A song to share - Let Yourself Be Seen written last year and recorded between All Saints Church in Peckham and The Old Bowjie (pictured - Mum and Jon's cottage in Cornwall) Part of a collection of songs I'm gradually recording. Over the last few years I've been involved, volunteering and participating, in three groups [...]

A post about a new friend, Ali Mushaima. I'd seen Ali talk before at Amnesty International a few years ago at an event about the Arms Fair. A few weeks ago I had a message from another friend Sam Walton who works in Human Rights and Peace activism. Sam was putting a call out, one that [...]

  thanks Buddhafield for the photograph It's not our differences that divide us, it's our inability to recognise, accept and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde Buddhafield, Plum Village and Greenbelt Festival - recordings, talks, songs and a relaxation August began with the Buddhafield Festival; run by the Triratna community, the Buddhist inspired festival runs every [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLZKAv3eo4   June into July, 2 festivals; the Farm Festival Refugee project and Stroud Sacred Music weekend with songs and recorded sharings from some of those who I met there. links to other Summer events and an ep release.     This red brick house is home to a community of women Asylum seekers and their [...]

  about Joseph - Joseph is a writer and activist from Uganda, currently living in the UK supporting friends within the refugee community. I think of Joseph as a supporter of whoever comes across Joseph's path; a lover of nature and a peacemaker (and far too humble to say any of these things!) This piece [...]

May and June Roots into reverence pilgrimage including words from pilgrim Joseph and some of the evenings music sharing from the church), a festival recording with a Maya Angelou poem from the bbc introducing stage at The Great Estate festival and a bit more on the Catholic Worker Asylum seeker Farm project where i'll be on July the [...]