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Brave New Beginnings - Framed

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  • 10" x 8" white wooden frame ready to hang
  • Story is included on back of frame
  • Giclée print of original watercolour painting
  • Printed on fine art paper using archival inks.


Every year in Spring I wait for the frogspawn to appear in the freshwater ponds at Bull Island nature reserve. I am so thrilled when I come across the very first clumps in the water, some large, some small, some scattered. Over the coming weeks and months I watch how they grow and change. Some clumps get disturbed, some clumps get eaten and for those that remain I am always hopeful. Whatever stage they are at I always see how vulnerable they are. Exposed in their tiny ponds they face challenges like predation and other disturbances. I wonder will they have enough water to ensure they transform in time?

But when I sit and watch them I am drawn in by their being and peacefulness. They’re not worrying about what might happen. They are content to simply be – either as a tiny black dot in jelly floating in a pool of water or a happy tadpole feeding, hiding and swimming freely in its pond. Watching them makes my heart smile. They are so alive and attuned with what is. I wonder if I can carry this feeling of peacefulness back home and include it in my own world – a small piece of spaciousness, a small piece of flow, a feeling of simply being - attuned to how things are, not pushing against how things might be.  And I thank these tiny creatures for what I learn from them and hope I can be as brave in my world as they always are in theirs.


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