“The past months have given rise to much good as well as ugliness. There are ruins and wounds of so many kinds everywhere. All we can do is our best. We can learn from our experiences and look ahead. We can make something new, something good, maybe even something better from it.

We haven’t yet arrived where young shoots are growing. They still are to poke their heads out. But it is time to plan. We ought to be planting now.
When the shoots grow, they will be delicate and in need of much care, patience and vision. Theirs is the most difficult task of transforming the shit they grow from.”

Jess de Zilva, October 2020